On Biden’s Gaffes
While thinking about Joe Biden in contemplating my previous post, it struck me how hard the MSM tries to portray the Vice President in a positive light. They give short shrift to his past gaffes and errors of judgment. The former Delaware Senator has made gaffes that were he a Republican would have earned him the opprobrium of the chattering classes. He has been wrong about nearly every foreign policy issue in his 36-year Senate tenure.
Recall, this is the guy who told Katie Couric, “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.’”
At least when Sarah Palin was talking to the same news anchor, she admitted what she didn’t know (and got into trouble for that). By contrast, Biden showed that he was clueless about U.S. history and the record of the most celebrated president of his party.
If the MSM devoted one-third the time to investigating Biden’s public statements as they did to reporting the private life of Sarah Palin’s family, they’d have ten times the material.
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Biden makes Dan Quayle look like a genius in comparison.
Regards,
Peter H.
Comment by Peter Hughes — April 8, 2009 @ 4:44 pm - April 8, 2009
The media has double standards and then some… no surprise, but a real pity.
Comment by ILoveCapitalism — April 8, 2009 @ 5:43 pm - April 8, 2009
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Aw shoot, Dan! Let’s just all stand up for Chuck.
Comment by ThatGayConservative — April 9, 2009 @ 2:17 am - April 9, 2009
Too bad we didn’t vote for Kerry, who served in Vietnam. Chuck would have been able to stand up when Joe Bigot said it.
Comment by ThatGayConservative — April 9, 2009 @ 2:18 am - April 9, 2009
I always remind my friends, Biden was Obama’s first important decision. Any other President without a fawning press would be still explaining that decision. BTW Biden yesterday used the WOT phrase. Is that a bungle, gaffe or just honesty?
Comment by Gene in Pennsylvania — April 9, 2009 @ 10:22 am - April 9, 2009
At a meeting of Latin American presidents, Biden, when seeing President Tony Saca and the communist President-elect Mauricio Funes, said, ¨I´m glad to see this. This couldn´t happen twenty years ago.¨ Of course not the country was in civil war in which the commie FMLN was trying to take the country by force. I wonder if he was really glad that a leftist who compared himself to Barak Obama and whose campaign slogan was hope and change had won.
Comment by Roberto — April 9, 2009 @ 10:29 am - April 9, 2009