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How Quickly the Media Forget Biden’s Gaffes

October 22, 2008 by GayPatriotWest

In a comment to a recent post, a critic wrote that I’d “written a myriad of posts on supposed media bias in just the past 48 hours.”  And he’s right, except for that adjective.

According to Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post, a new study finds that “Media coverage of John McCain has been . . . more than three times as negative as the portrayal of Barack Obama.” The study also found that Sarah Palin drew “three times as much coverage as the Democrats’ VP nominee, Joe Biden [whose] coverage was far more negative than Palin’s. That may be because Biden tends to make news primarily when he commits gaffes.”

The Delaware Democrat’s gaffes are so commonplace, we tend to forget them as soon as we read about them.

Nearly every Obama supporter I talk to can tell me of the questions Sarah Palin failed to answer in her interivew with Katie Couric.  Heck, even I can rattle them off without googling, she didn’t name the papers she read, she couldn’t identify (besides Roe v. Wade) a Supreme Court decision with which she disagreed, nor cite regulatory legislation her running mate had backed in Congress.

But, I’d forgotten about one of Biden’s biggest goofs when talking to that very CBS anchor:

Nightly news shows still haven’t tired of replaying Sarah Palin’s infamous interview with Katie Couric. But how many times have they replayed Joe Biden’s botched interview with Couric last month — in which he cluelessly claimed: “When the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt got on the television and didn’t just talk about the, you know, the princes of greed. He said, ‘Look, here’s what happened.’”

Can you imagine how the media would react if Palin had recalled Ronald Reagan’s web-cast when Iranian students seized the US Embassy in Tehran?

Just as “the media world would be exploding” (as Kirsten Powers put it) if the Alaska Governor had said McCain’s election would prompt an international crisis, with the Administration reaction causing Americans to lose confidence in his government.

UPDATE:  Michael Ledeen: “But imagine if Palin had said such a thing [Biden’s Seattle gaffe].  We’d have a million column inches explaining why she doesn’t belong on a national ticket“  (Via Instapundit).

Filed Under: 2008 Presidential Politics, Media Bias

Comments

  1. Swampfox says

    October 22, 2008 at 10:22 pm - October 22, 2008

    Biden just doesn’t put one foot in his mouth………….he is the only Senator that I know that can put both feet in his mouth without the press commenting.

  2. torrentprime says

    October 22, 2008 at 11:34 pm - October 22, 2008

    Ah. Apparently, GPW heard about Palin’s misunderestimastanding of the word “precondition” and thus preemptively blogged about Biden. Kind of like watching Rudy answer questions about McCain and the Supreme Court, where every answer was, “ZOMG can you imagine what Obama would do?”

    And, on your “point” about the negative media coverage of McCain, I don’t suppose it ever crossed your mind that the coverage of a negative campaign might in fact be negative?

  3. Philokalia says

    October 23, 2008 at 12:19 am - October 23, 2008

    There is also the point to be made that the MSM blindly accepts Obama’s LAME explanations for his negative comments about McCain/Palin and his other idiotic explanations (e.g.”I don’t look like the other presidents…”). I mean it’s really just sad.

  4. ThatGayConservative says

    October 23, 2008 at 12:30 am - October 23, 2008

    I don’t suppose it ever crossed your mind that the coverage of a negative campaign might in fact be negative?

    Not when it’s been established that Comrade Obama’s campaign is the most negative, not to mention the most violent supporters, Toilet Paper.

  5. ThatGayConservative says

    October 23, 2008 at 12:58 am - October 23, 2008

    Not to mention the liberal’s ASSumption that Iran doesn’t have pre-conditions of their own and will just throw themselves at Il Douche.

    Thank God Williams and Huff n Puff aren’t running, and if people were smart, they’d see Comrade Obama for the fraud people like you try to hide.

  6. GayPatriotWest says

    October 23, 2008 at 1:08 am - October 23, 2008

    Um, torrent, given that your only news comes from the left, perhaps you didn’t know that Obama has spent more on negative ads than any previous presidential candidate.

    And why do you continue to attach comments to my posts without bothering to get their point.

    Your point about “preconditions” has nothing to do with anything I’ve said. Seems you just have some need to slime Palin, a woman about whom you know little of substance and understand even less.

  7. ThatGayConservative says

    October 23, 2008 at 1:33 am - October 23, 2008

    TP’s peeps:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XWkSUcrDQI

    Your point about “preconditions” has nothing to do with anything I’ve said.

    When you can’t defend the indefensible, attack Palin. Next comes a contrived kerfuffle about how much Palin spends on clothes.

  8. V the K says

    October 23, 2008 at 4:58 am - October 23, 2008

    What about Biden proclaiming that J-O-B-S was a “three-letter word.”

    With math skills like that, no wonder we’re in a financial crisis.

  9. V the K says

    October 23, 2008 at 5:11 am - October 23, 2008

    More of that ‘mythical’ left-wing Palin hatred: NYC Museum exhibit invites guests to shoot Sarah Palin.

  10. American Elephant says

    October 23, 2008 at 5:25 am - October 23, 2008

    Ooooh, lets open up an exhibit just like that for Obama and see how long it takes for the apocalyptic outrage… then we can just point out we were following suit.

  11. American Elephant says

    October 23, 2008 at 5:35 am - October 23, 2008

    What is this with the libtards, and im sorry, the word is truly appropriate in this case, ans their manufactured Palin controversies?

    First they were going off about her claiming the Vice President is hte leader of the senate (he is) when she was absolutely 100% right — broadcasting their Constitutional and civic ignorance for all. Now theyre going off about when Gibson asks her what she means when she says preconditions, and she answers that you have to have a diplomatic strategy. Another perfectly accurate answer. If you want to meet with us, you need to do this… thats a diplomatic strategy.

    But what can you expect from a party whose VP Nominee has sat in the senate for 30 some odd years, heads the Judiciary committee– and still has no idea what article of the Constituion establishes his own branch of government nor what the constitutional role of the VP is!

    its beyond parody.

  12. V the K says

    October 23, 2008 at 6:52 am - October 23, 2008

    What is this with the libtards, and im sorry, the word is truly appropriate in this case, ans their manufactured Palin controversies?

    Faux scandals about Sarah Palin distract the voters from the idiocy, radicalism, and dangerous incompetence of the Obama bin Biden ticket.

    Are you familiar with the term ‘Helicopter Parent?’ A Helicopter Parent is an over-protective parent who hovers constantly over her child and makes sure the child never has to confront any difficulty or fight his own battles.

    The MSM is playing the role of Obama bin Biden’s Helicopter Parent.

    The children of Helicopter Parents almost invariably turn out as spoiled brats, unable to face up to any of life’s challenges.

  13. V the K says

    October 23, 2008 at 6:58 am - October 23, 2008

    P.S. I Miss Hillary.

  14. American Elephant says

    October 23, 2008 at 7:17 am - October 23, 2008

    excellent analogy!

    Oh, and by the way…

    “5. Andrew Sullivan immediately converted to Hindu in hopes of being reincarnated as a Holstein.”

    bahahahaha!

    Did you know your site is cooliris compatible? very cool app i just downloaded and am playing with. its like cover flow for the internet

  15. V the K says

    October 23, 2008 at 8:36 am - October 23, 2008

    Kind of you to say, AE.

  16. V the K says

    October 23, 2008 at 2:22 pm - October 23, 2008

    New York Democrat’s excuse for not paying taxes:I have a mental illness that prevents me from paying taxes.

  17. JT in the Army says

    October 25, 2008 at 3:52 am - October 25, 2008

    I wish that the MSM would dig up some of Biden’s past gaffes made in front of cameras. Just for some fun.

    His comment at the opening of his latest failed presidential bid that he would do good in southern states because Delaware was a slave state.

    His comment to a lobbyist for an Indian-American organization with CSPAN cameras present: “We have lots of Indians in Delaware, they work at the 7-Elevens.”

    Either of those are worth digging into more than what Palin may or may not have inquired about to a small town librarian several years ago.

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