Beyond Decency

You may recall that last week, I wrote about Ari Melber showing video late at night after the young boy Brayden Harrington had spoken earlier at the DNC Convention about stuttering and Joe Biden helping him.  The video that MSNBC showed was footage of when Biden and  Harrington actually first met back in February.  

It was deeply moving and showed Biden's utter graciousness with a boy who was there, as his father tell's Biden, because he wanted to hear Biden speak.  But the kid is profoundly shy and withdrawn -- and Biden just takes him into his heart.

I searched and couldn't find the footage.  So, instead I just described it.  ​The best could find was video from a week later at a stump speech in New Hampshire, where Biden invites Brayden Harrington to the podium.  It's very nice, but not the same.  

I still can't find the video.  But -- the Lincoln Project just released a new ad comparing Biden's decency to Trump's cruelty.  And to focus on Biden...they use clips from that meeting with him and the boy.

It’s not all the footage, but much of it.  Hopefully I’ll be able to find the whole thing and without cutting away – it’s so moving – but this has most of it, and the point comes through glowingly. It's the next best thing.  And happily is awfully close.