Photo credits: APKirsten Powers at the New York Post is wondering why Biden’s latest gaffe at a fundraiser last Sunday hasn’t exploded in the media. Powers rightly points out that if Sarah Palin had dropped such a bombshell regarding a McCain Administration, we would never hear the last of it.
But heck, folks, Biden was just warning us of a possible international crisis if Obama is elected. Over at the left-leaning Huffington Post the banner headline on the front page is all about Sarah Palin’s expensive wardrobe paid for by the RNC. Now which issue do you think the American people should be most worried about?
Powers puts Biden’s scary comments into perspective:
“Barack Obama's choice of Joe Biden as his running mate prompted a small wave of warnings about Biden's propensity for gaffes. But no one imagined even in a worse-case scenario such a spectacular bomb as telling donors Sunday to "gird your loins" because a young president Obama will be tested by an international crisis just like young President John Kennedy was.
“Scary? You betcha! But somehow, not front-page news.
“Again the media showed their incredible bias by giving scattered coverage of Biden's statements.
‘“There were a few exceptions. On MSNBC's ‘Morning Joe,’ co-host Mika Brzezinski flipped incredulously through the papers, expressing shock at the lack of coverage of Biden's remarks. Guest Dan Rather admitted that if Palin had said it, the media would be going nuts.
“So what gives?
‘“The stock answer is: ‘It's just Biden being Biden.’ We all know how smart he is about foreign policy, so it's not the same as when Sarah Palin says something that seems off.
‘“Yet, when Biden asserted incorrectly in the vice-presidential debate that the United States ‘drove Hezbollah out of Lebanon,’ nobody in the US media shrieked. (It was, however, covered with derision in the Middle East.) Or when he confused his history by claiming FDR calmed the nation during the Depression by going on TV, the press didn't take it as evidence that he's clueless.
“And Biden is the foreign-policy gravitas on the Democratic ticket, so his comments are actually even more disconcerting.”
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But heck, folks, Biden was just warning us of a possible international crisis if Obama is elected. Over at the left-leaning Huffington Post the banner headline on the front page is all about Sarah Palin’s expensive wardrobe paid for by the RNC. Now which issue do you think the American people should be most worried about?
Powers puts Biden’s scary comments into perspective:
“Barack Obama's choice of Joe Biden as his running mate prompted a small wave of warnings about Biden's propensity for gaffes. But no one imagined even in a worse-case scenario such a spectacular bomb as telling donors Sunday to "gird your loins" because a young president Obama will be tested by an international crisis just like young President John Kennedy was.
“Scary? You betcha! But somehow, not front-page news.
“Again the media showed their incredible bias by giving scattered coverage of Biden's statements.
‘“There were a few exceptions. On MSNBC's ‘Morning Joe,’ co-host Mika Brzezinski flipped incredulously through the papers, expressing shock at the lack of coverage of Biden's remarks. Guest Dan Rather admitted that if Palin had said it, the media would be going nuts.
“So what gives?
‘“The stock answer is: ‘It's just Biden being Biden.’ We all know how smart he is about foreign policy, so it's not the same as when Sarah Palin says something that seems off.
‘“Yet, when Biden asserted incorrectly in the vice-presidential debate that the United States ‘drove Hezbollah out of Lebanon,’ nobody in the US media shrieked. (It was, however, covered with derision in the Middle East.) Or when he confused his history by claiming FDR calmed the nation during the Depression by going on TV, the press didn't take it as evidence that he's clueless.
“And Biden is the foreign-policy gravitas on the Democratic ticket, so his comments are actually even more disconcerting.”
Read more.
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