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September 8, 2008
Biden's Not Too Old for a Little Vetting
As David Keene points out, Obama isn't the only one on the liberal ticket getting a pass while the mainstream media snuffles the ground in search of something sordid to pin on Sarah Palin:
One wonders whether the media will focus as sharp a light on allegations involving her vice presidential opponent from Delaware. Joe Biden has been around for a long time, and as a senior senator most assume that he has already been thoroughly "vetted," but few remember that he was forced to drop out of his first presidential race when it was discovered that he plagiarized a part of his biography.
And last week, his hometown paper reported that the tragic collision that took the life of his wife and daughter shortly after his election to the Senate in 1972 was not, as he's told audiences for years, the result of an encounter with a drunk and out-of-control driver. Tragic as it was, it turns out it was simply an accident. According to Delaware authorities, no ticket was issued and there was no evidence of any wrongdoing whatsoever. Yet Biden has spent decades maligning the driver of the truck that broadsided his wife's car — apparently because it makes for a better story and elicits even more sympathy from audiences who hear it.
Biden's friends have responded to these reports by suggesting that it is insensitive and unfair to dig up such information about a tragedy that took place 35 years ago, but his characterization of what happened continues to this day.
Add to this that he had to take a law school class over after being flunked for plagiarizing and later claimed to have finished near the top of his graduating class when he had, in fact, finished 76th in a class of 85. And that it was discovered that one of the more moving speeches he gave while running for the Senate was stolen virtually in its entirety from one delivered earlier by the late Bobby Kennedy. Together, these incidents comprise what might accurately be called a disturbing pattern of behavior spanning decades.
Sen. Biden's friends in the media like to talk about how smart he is when perhaps they should be asking whether he is capable of separating fact from fiction.
Fact? Fiction? As far as the national media is concerned, the only meaningful dichotomy is Us and Them.
On a tip from Byron.
Posted by Van Helsing at September 8, 2008 5:26 PM
Comments
This, too.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1048511/Obama-picks-senator-stole-Neil-Kinnocks-speech-running-mate.html
Posted by: avalon at September 8, 2008 6:39 PM
ahhhh, I see defending Palin requires attacking Biden...all this from people who basically spend ALL their time "snuffling the ground looking to pin something sordid on" insert-name-of-anyone-who-happens-to-disagree-with-you here......
Posted by: Anonymous at September 9, 2008 5:06 AM
Look its COBRA COMMANDER AND DESTRO
Posted by: Spurwing Plover at September 9, 2008 11:46 AM
Where's the sense of scale here? As much as I despise the Wizard of Uhs, this sort of thing is nit pickin'. So what if Biden stole lines? So what if he embellishes his own history? This sort of crap is no better than the crap they're trying to pin on Sarah, like her school record. It's ALL lame and irrelevant. But if Biden beats his wife or makes love to a poodle, then it's relevant.
Posted by: Doug at September 9, 2008 2:05 PM
Look its SOURON and the lord of the NAZGUL
Posted by: Spurwing Plover at September 9, 2008 9:25 PM
What's good for the goose...
Posted by: Thulsa Doom at September 9, 2008 9:49 PM
