AP Puff Piece on Biden Could Have Been Written in White House
Can you imagine that in the dark days of the Bush Administration, AP had ran an article on how the Vice President was redefining the role of his office and primarily interviewed political aides to the then-President and their supporters and read like it had been drafted in the West Wing, with one critical quote added in for “balance.”
Well, take a gander at this puff piece on Joe Biden which lead the news on Yahoo!’s main page Wednesday night. Here’s the toughest criticism of the Delaware Democrat we get.
South Carolina Comptroller Richard Eckstrom, who oversees stimulus spending in his state, says Biden may be “giving it all he’s got,” but states haven’t been given the tools they need to meet federal requirements, in particular reporting rules that arrived without money to help states meet them.
“Nebulous Washington didn’t think this one through very well,” Eckstrom said.
No mention of how his comments on jobs* being created are at odds with increasing job losses across the country. No mention of fraud in the distribution the “stimulus” funds he oversees. Only that one mention above of delays in the distribution of transportation funds. An attempt to downplay his gaffes as if they’re just representative of his honesty and bluntness.
No mention of how he’s gotten nearly every foreign policy issue wrong (not to mention most domestic ones) over the course of his 36-year tenure in the seat. No tough questions asking if he’s learned from his mistakes. Instead, we just learn that “Biden’s vice presidency is shaping up as a mix of his two Democratic predecessors, two of the most influential vice presidents after Cheney.”
Guess if your name isn’t Cheney and you serve under Obama, then there’s no need for tough criticism.
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*You know that “three-letter word” about “the number one job facing the middle class.”
UPDATE: This piece makes me wonder if the AP functions as the research and communications arm of the Obama White House (to borrow an expression from the President’s Communications Director).
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You’re assuming it wasn’t?
Comment by The_Livewire — October 15, 2009 @ 12:48 pm - October 15, 2009
The State run media get their scripts blast faxed from Emanuel. I doubt you could find a dozen original stories on the WH since January.
Comment by ThatGayConservative — October 15, 2009 @ 1:04 pm - October 15, 2009
How does this administration get away with saying they are “creating or saving” jobs? It’ s a flat out lie and the media and people should laugh out loud everytime they utter it. If the next Republican administration were to say that, they’d get shouted down by the attending media.
Comment by Gene in Pennsylvania — October 15, 2009 @ 1:45 pm - October 15, 2009
Obama follows a very simple rule: no one who works for him can be smarter than he is.
Comment by North Dallas Thirty — October 15, 2009 @ 1:46 pm - October 15, 2009
Mr. Eckstrom is my state’s comptroller, South Carolina. He is a very smart man.
Comment by PatriotMom — October 15, 2009 @ 6:00 pm - October 15, 2009
Can you get dumber’n dirt?
Comment by ThatGayConservative — October 15, 2009 @ 6:14 pm - October 15, 2009