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Wow, watch this video of Joe Biden being asked the most ill-concieved questions I have ever seen.
This is a great example of how journalism should not be conducted – biased, leading questions loaded with buzzwords. Not only that, but the buzzwords are the bias that lend itself to the leading of the questions. Kudos to Biden for handling the situation well.
Anyone else notice the implicit slap to the face of the far righters at the end? When Biden responded to the claim that some fear that Obama will turn the US into a Sweden-like socialist nation, Biden simply responded by saying that he doesn’t know anyone with that fear aside from the far-right Republicans, and then did not address the fear at all, which to me was akin to saying “I don’t know anyone who is afraid of that except far right republicans, and so there’s no point in even dignifying this fear with a response”. And that is probably absolutely true. If this block of the voters weren’t so motivated to keep and peddle their convictions no matter what, they would have figured this out themselves a while ago.
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Yeah…Olbermann mentioned this the other night. Apparently her husband is a GOP rep of some sort. I’m guessing he wrote the questions.
I liked Biden’s incredulous “Um…is this a joke, or a real question?” I think he thought he was on Candid Camera.
What a pile of crap, that load of questions was.
Anyone else notice the implicit slap to the face of the far righters at the end? When Biden responded to the claim that some fear that Obama will turn the US into a Sweden-like socialist nation, Biden simply responded by saying that he doesn’t know anyone with that fear aside from the far-right Republicans, and then did not address the fear at all, which to me was akin to saying “I don’t know anyone who is afraid of that except far right republicans, and so there’s no point in even dignifying this fear with a response”. And that is probably absolutely true. If this block of the voters weren’t so motivated to keep and peddle their convictions no matter what, they would have figured this out themselves a while ago.