MSM Embargo of Biden’s Gaffe-Fest Reaches Five Days
Ace has made an observation. Almost five days have passed since Joe Biden gaffed his way through the VP Debate and there hasn’t been a single MSM story about any of them. Oh, there have been several stories praising him, as Jonah Goldberg points out, but not one taking him to task for his made-up “facts”. Here’s Goldberg’s list:
According to the master senator, the U.S. and France “kicked Hezbollah out of Lebanon.” Afterward, according to Biden, “I said and Barack said, ‘Move NATO forces in there. Fill the vacuum, because if you don’t know — if you don’t, Hezbollah will control it.’ ” Perhaps Biden meant to say the U.S. and France kicked Syria out of Lebanon. But even this is woefully glib. Syria never fully abandoned Lebanon. And there was no “vacuum” for Hezbollah to fill. The terrorist group was already firmly in control of southern Lebanon and part of the government. No one remembers Biden and Obama fighting for the stupidly impossible NATO move either.
Biden insisted it’s “just simply not true” that Obama has said he’d “sit down with [Iranian President Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad,” even though in the primaries Biden criticized Obama for exactly that.
Biden bragged about how he and Obama have focused on Pakistan, insisting that “Pakistan’s weapons can already hit Israel and the Mediterranean.” Um, no. Their missiles don’t get halfway there.
The constitutional law professor scornfully mocked Dick Cheney because the vice president “doesn’t realize that Article I of the Constitution defines the role of the vice president. That’s the executive branch.” Wrong. Article I defines the Legislature, Article II the executive branch. Both define the role of the VP.
He flatly said that McCain voted with Obama on a tax hike. He didn’t. He said McCain’s healthcare plan amounted to a tax hike. It doesn’t. Biden said we “must” drill for oil, but that ain’t how he’s voted. He said he’s for clean coal, but just this month he passionately insisted to a voter that “we’re not supporting clean coal” and vowed “no coal plants here in America.” The scrapper from Scranton boasted about bonding with the common folks at a restaurant that’s been closed for two decades.
Says Ace:
The difference between the Soviet Union and today’s America? The press in today’s America doesn’t have to be threatened into whitewashing the news in favor of the official party line.
No, they don’t. They do it willingly.
Other Posts of Interest:
- Reuters Gets Dishonest About Hezbollah
- You Say “Sectarian”, I Say “Iranian”. You say “Violence”, I say “Invasion”.
- Steyn on the Debate: Joe Biden is a Terrible Fantasist, But He Gets Great Press
Category: Joe Biden, Oh, THAT liberal media.
