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Flashback: Florida Anchor Barbara West Responds to Controversial Biden Interview
FOXNEWS ^ | October 28, 2008 | Bill O'Reilly

Posted on 06/07/2012 12:56:49 PM PDT by Son House

BARBARA WEST, WFTV ANCHOR: I know you're in North Carolina now, helping to get out the vote, but aren't you embarrassed by the blatant attempts to register phony voters by ACORN, an organization that Barack Obama has been tied to in the past?

JOE BIDEN, DEMOCRATIC VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I am not embarrassed by it. We are not tied to it. We've not paid them one single penny to register a single solitary voter.

...WEST: 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 Senator Obama not being a Marxist if he intends to spread the wealth around?

BIDEN: Are you joking? Is this a joke?

WEST: No.

BIDEN: Or is that a real question?

WEST: That's a question.

BIDEN: He is not spreading the wealth around. He's talking about giving the middle class an opportunity to get back the tax breaks they used to have.

WEST: What do you say to the people who are concerned that Barack Obama will want to turn America into a Socialist country much like Sweden?

BIDEN: I don't know anybody who thinks that, except the far right-wing of the Republican Party.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

O'REILLY: Now after that interview, the Obama campaign complained to the station and Senator Biden said this:

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

BIDEN: I was on a television station the other day and doing a satellite feed to a major network in Florida, and the anchor quotes Karl Marx, and says in a sense isn't Barack Obama Karl Marx? You know, I mean, folks, this stuff you're hearing, this stuff you're hearing on this campaign, some of it's pretty ugly, and some of the innuendo is pretty ugly.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: anchor; biden; florida; interview
Now it's time for Biden to go ask the records of Illinois ACORN at the Wisconsin Historical Society(via Stanley Kurtz, National Review) "Are you joking? Is this a joke?"
1 posted on 06/07/2012 12:57:00 PM PDT by Son House
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To: Son House

In Democrat Bizarro World insanity is the new norm.


2 posted on 06/07/2012 1:12:05 PM PDT by Iron Munro (John Adams: 'Two ways to enslave a country. One is by the sword, the other is by debt')
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To: Son House
Forget Biden; he's the court fool.

Let's hear Barack Obama answer the questions about ACORN and Karl Marx.

And, good for Ms. West. At last somebody’s bringing up matters that should have been addressed before the last presidential election.

3 posted on 06/07/2012 1:15:48 PM PDT by July4 (Remember the price paid for your freedom.)
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To: Son House

B U M P


4 posted on 06/07/2012 1:36:44 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
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To: Son House

“Are you joking? Is this a joke?” Yes, Joe Biden is Vice President of the United States.


5 posted on 06/07/2012 2:18:21 PM PDT by Chewbarkah
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To: July4

Note that this was an interview from Oct. of 2008.
At the time the Anchor refers to Senator Obama.
Still a great post and now We KNOW Obama HUSSEIN
is a Lyal Disciple of Karl Marx!


6 posted on 06/07/2012 2:36:27 PM PDT by True Republican Patriot (May GOD SAVE OUR AMERICA from ALLAH and his Prophet, HUSSEIN OBAMA!!)
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To: Son House

OBAMA: From each according to how much they feel like doing to each according to how much we want them to have.


7 posted on 06/07/2012 4:33:11 PM PDT by eccentric (a.k.a. baldwidow)
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To: Son House

“”BIDEN: He is not spreading the wealth around. He’s talking about giving the middle class an opportunity to get back the tax breaks they used to have.””

“”WEST: What do you say to the people who are concerned that Barack Obama will want to turn America into a Socialist country much like Sweden?””

WHY do these people consistently fail to follow up on statements like that of Biden’s? I know this is old (2008) but it’s something all interviewers do and it irritates the heck out of me.

She couldn’t have asked, “What tax breaks did the middle class lose?”

Nope, she goes right on to another question.


8 posted on 06/07/2012 5:07:42 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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