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Posted on 10/25/2008 6:37:01 PM PDT by Fred
Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., got asked some rather interesting questions from Orlando TV reporter on Thursday.
You can watch it here Youtube link of Biden interview with Barbara West
The questions are:
* If Biden is "embarrassed about the blatant attempt to register phony voters by ACORN," since Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., worked with the organization in the past;
* If Obama's comment about wanting tax policies that "spread the wealth" is "a potentially crushing political blunder";
* "You may recognize this famous quote: 'from each according to his abilities to each according to his needs.' That's from Karl Marx. How is Sen. Obama not being a Marxist if he intends to spread the wealth around?";
* Regarding Biden's comment that the world would test Obama and the Obama-Biden administration will need the support of Americans since it might not be immediately apparent Obama did the right thing -- "Are you forewarning Americans that nothing will be done and America's days as the world's leading power are over?"
* "What do you say to the people that are concerned that Barack Obama will want to turn America into a Socialist country like Sweden?"
Biden seems quite taken aback by the anchor's questions, at one point asking her, "Are you joking? Is this is a joke? Or is that a real question?"
The interview prompted the Obama-Biden campaign to cancel a subsequent interview with Jill Biden.
"The campaign cited 'an unprofessional interview' WFTV's Barbara West did Thursday with Joe Biden," reports the Orlando Sentinel. "In a statement Friday, Adrianne Marsh, Florida spokeswoman for Obama's campaign, said the station, in talking with Sen. Biden, was 'both combative and woefully uninformed about simple facts.
... In a line of questioning that would make Rush Limbaugh proud, West even went as far as to quote Karl Marx, a Communist icon, in a disturbing attempt to associate Barack Obama with socialism.'"
whatta treat!
Biden certainly was disturbed. LOL!!
Gosh.. Joe’s intimidated by a local reporterette? Pretty thin skin, there, Plugs!
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Press to Sarah Palin: “You wanted to play in the big leagues. Welcome to the show.”
Biden to Barbara West: “Are You Joking? Is This a Joke? Or Is That a Real Question?”
Obama/Biden seem to think they are above being asked hard questions. And then the station actually took the interview down. That’s censorship.
The station self-censored in reaction to Obama’s complaints.
Good-bye First Amendment. The prick isn’t even president yet.
If you can’t stand the heat, then get outta politics, ya little sissy mary.
Well come on. John McCain cancelled his interview with CNN after Campbell Brown said something about Sarah Palin he didn’t like.
Elitism to the max. Only person alive that has a more elitist attitude is his running mate. ;-)
Who knew the Democrats are closet totalitarians! These Democrats have no tolerance for opposing speech and will work long and hard to suppress and criminalize political speech. Chavez doesn’t have anything on Democrats when it comes to suppression other than opportunity and that is changing.
Are you joking? Is this is a joke?
No, but you are! (rimshot)
Part of a future transcript of an Obama-Biden foreign relations negotiation.
Vince Foster... Jerry Parks...
Ah, so a personal attack is the same as a question about voter registration fraud (especially when Obama is closely associated with said group).
Idiot Biden created the incident with his intolerance. All he had to do was field the question WITHOUT the antagonism he threw back
It's a variation on the "Joe the Plumber" approach to handling undesired questions.
He is a whining whimp — nevertheless, there were several times that I wished Palin had said as much to Gibson and Curic.
If only elected male Republicans were as brave as Barbara West, Sarah Palin ,
Cindy McCain and Michele Bachmann .
Joe the Plumber buries zero with a question.
Ms. west throws ZBiden off his game with a toughinterview.
this is the opening McPalin needs in the last week to hit from a different angle.
“Ask us the tough questions! We’ll answer them all!”
Can you imagine these people in charge of you, your family and country??? Imagine what damage they can do if Biden can’t/won’t answer such simple questions without becoming unhinged. They seem to believe that they are above us and beyond the law.
Ms West is going to "reeducation camp" under the Obama Nation.
gotta re-educate myself and re-learn that word “unprofessional”.
apparantly “unprofessional” now means “actually doing your job.”
Barbara West: Doing the job the rest of the MSM won’t do!
“I don’t know who’s writing your questions.”
You don’t suppose the Obama campaign is writing questions for...nah. Couldn’t be. Seriously. I think the mainstream press is fully capable of being that servile on its own.
What a brush of fresh air. I hope we see a few more interviews like this before election. I have been praying that the American people will have their eyes opened and these are the types of interviews and questions that will open their eyes.
Thank you God for answering our prayers and God bless you Barbara West.
The video has suddenly disappeared down the rabbit hole, and also missing from YouTube. WTF is going on/
Or was he implying that a female interviewer must be a bimbette, who could not come up with tough questions on her own?
This is a very good point. These useless pieces of human waste get rattled by questions from a private citizen and a news reporter. Makes you wonder how they are going to perform when they are under some real pressure, like might be from some arm-twisting by rogues like Jong or Ahmadinejad or Chavez. My guess is just the least bit of pressure and Bammer Biden will crumble into a slobbering pile of jello.
could we get Barbara West a show on FNC-maybe dump Doraldo or Shep “eyelash” Smith
Code words for "the reporter did not bow down and worship Biden"
Yes! Botox will do that to skin!
I just sent her an e-mail thanking her for being what a journalist should be!!
Like long term associations with multiple socialists and Obama's own comments haven't already done that.
One more question could have been, Senetor, how do you keep your eye brows perfectly horizontal no matter what your facial expression is? Very creepy.
Were you being sarcastic? If so, sorry. If not, well, here goes: There was a big difference. McCain was angry over a personal attack. The Obama campaign is angry because their policies are being exposed by the questions.
“If only elected male Republicans were as brave as Barbara West, Sarah Palin, Cindy McCain and Michele Bachmann.”
My thoughts exactly.
Are there any men left? Or have they allowed themselves to be castrated by a couple of decades worth of Political Correctness and the left’s pussification conditioning.
Testosterone is much needed right now.
The right’s much beloved “high-road” is becoming a huge liability in the struggle for individual freedom.
JOE THE PLUMBER IS TEN TIMES THE MAN THAN MOST OF OUR “LEADERS”.
The media’s reaction is one of the hardest things to understand. Don’t they know how expendable they are? Don’t they know they are just tools? How many stations does a N. Korean radio receive? How many stories did the Soviets allow to be written? How many reporters were allowed to exist in Hitler’s world or Mao’s? They all should be forced to write, not allowed to, so then they might see what life could become under Obama’s Amerika or whomever is controlling him.
Ain’t life grand?????
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
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Of course Biden lies, he was caught at Syracuse Law School for plagiarism and was almost thrown out, he begged to stay and they allowed him to graduate 76th out of 85. Then he was caught red handed in the 1988 presidential primary for plagiarizing an entire Neil Kinnock speech, 2 strikes against this moral paragon. He lies about this 95% tax cut because it cannot be a tax cut if people do not pay taxes - it is a transfer payment, it is redistribution of wealth, it is Marxist, just like Bill Ayers and just like Barack Obama.
Biden completely lied about Obama and preconditions with Iran when it is as clear as day on youtube.
Obama is for socialism, even with Charlie Gibson, when pointing out to economics-dumb Barack that lowering capital gains tax rates actually brings in more revenue - Obama corrected him and said this is about “fairness”, not more revenue dollars. Obama is looking in your pocket, looking at your wealth and then imposing a moral judgment upon you, saying “its time to share the wealth”. This is unamerican, and closer to socialism than any other major candidate in the history of the country. He is taking peoples’ hard earned money and giving it to those who don’t work so hard in the name of his leftist defined “fairness”.
My beef with the interviewer is that she did not close in and prevent this weasel from lying out of the questions.
McCain as well as Biden voted for the Iraq War, but Biden voted against the first Gulf War and has tried to live that bad decision down ever since. Biden was against the surge which prevented catastrophic failure in Iraq, and then denies that it succeeded.
He fought Reagan on every anti-ballistic missile initiative swearing that we could not get there.
Biden tried to separate Iraq into 3 countries and was rejected by everyone in the world. He even put a website up describing his cockamamie idea that was rushed down when Obama named this blockhead to the ticket. Biden has always been wrong, always.
Biden finally gets asked some excellent hardball questions and gets so upset he calls the interviewer names and cancels further interviews - I wonder what he'd do in real life if he came up against circumstances he didn't like while in office - be hard to pick up his marbles and go home then.......
Biden said it’s not spreading the wealth.
Yet, Obama said he wants to spread the wealth.
They must think we’re all morons.
I truly hope that woman doesn’t receive any hassle from this. She did her job -better than any OTHER enemedia reporter has in the past while interviewing these jackasses and their ilk.
After all, i their universe they are really wonderful people and really smart, certainly smarter than you or I are.They don't understand human nature, so they don't understand themselves. They don't see that whaqt they are doing and thinking leads to the Gulag.
You are absolutely right. A bunch of them need to grow a pair, and big ones too! This just proves that Joe is not ready for prime time. But Sarah is more than ready to serve the next President and this great nation. I’ve already voted “early” here, so as you have said “ I will ignore the polls and the trolls and vote, no matter what.” NOBAMA 08
I've been thinking about this all day, too. Obama is not Bill Clinton. Should he win, the media is not necessary, or even advised, in order to set his agenda in motion. The less media the better. I foresee long periods with no press conferences.
Well done!!
Good grief, Joe, grow a pair.
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