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September 24, 2008
Gaffe-a-day Joe Biden
Joe Biden is known for not holding back and, in an exclusive interview with Katie Couric, he talks candidly about the upcoming debate and the attack ad against McCain he thought was "terrible."
Biden, in his interview with Katie Couric, was copying off the wrong classmate’s exam again. “When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn’t just talk about the princes of greed. He said, ‘look, here’s what happened.’” Two problems here: Television did not exist in 1929, and FDR was elected in 1932.
TRANSCRIPT from Rush Limbaugh show
Katie Couric talking to Joe Biden. She said, "Are you disappointed with the tone of the campaign and 'lipstick and the pig' stuff, some of the ads? You guys haven't been completely guilt free, making fun of John McCain's inability to use a computer."
BIDEN: I thought that was terrible.
COURIC: Why did you do it, then?
BIDEN: I didn't know we did it, and if I had anything to do with it, we'd have never done it, and I don't think Barack -- you know, I mean I just think that was, uh --
COURIC: Did Barack Obama approve that ad? He said he did, right?
BIDEN: Yeah, the answer is -- I -- I don't think anything's intentional about that. (rimshot) They were trying to make another point.
Then Biden caught himself because the commercial ended, "I'm Barack Obama, and I approved this message.
BIDEN: Part of what a leader does is to instill confidence, to demonstrate that he or she knows what they're talking about and communicates to people. If you listen to me and follow what I'm suggesting, we can fix this. (rimshot) Stock market crash, Franklin Roosevelt got on television and didn't just talk about the, you know, the princes of greed, he said, "Look, here's what happened."
From RUSH Limbaugh: There was no TV in 1929! Nobody was on TV in 1929, is the first gaffe. The second gaffe is that FDR wasn't president in 1929. Herbert Hoover was! Biden, the third gaffe is blowing a chance to blame Republicans for the Depression back in '29 for Herbert Hoover and saying, "Bush and McCain are the new Hoovers."
And then September 17th, this is five days ago, six days ago now in Ohio during a rope line visit, Senator Biden shaking hands and environmental activist Carolyn Auwaerter says, "Wind and solar are flourishing here in Ohio, so why are you supporting clean coal?"
RUSH: Okay, so an environmentalist comes up, "Why are you doing coal?" "We're not doing coal! Screw you! The ChiComs are doing coal. They're building two or three of these coal plants a week. They're killing people. They're polluting America! No more coal plants in the United States." Really? Hey, Joe, do you realize where a lot of coal miners in this country work. Do you realize what state they're in? It's West Virginia. It's called a state that you need? By the way, Obama has an ad that says he is for clean coal. Here it is.
OBAMA: I'm Barack Obama, and I approved this message.
MAN: (sappy music) Barack originates from Chicago, but he came to southern Illinois and seen the devastation and the loss of the jobs in this coal industry. War-shington, DC, is not listening to us. Barack understands us.
ANNOUNCER: In Illinois and the US Senate, Barack Obama helped lead the fight for clean coal, to protect our environment, and save good-paying American jobs.
RUSH: There's a graphic in this ad that says, "The Obama record: $200 million for clean coal." That ad has just been thrown under the bus by Joe Biden. Listen to sound bite number seven again. I think it's number seven. I put it away. Yep, you just heard the Obama ad on the record, $200 million for clean coal, clean energy, get rid of oil. We're going to go coal all the way, baby. And here's Biden, September 17th, with an environmentalist wacko shouting at him, why are you supporting clean coal?
BIDEN: We're not supporting clean coal! Guess what? China's building two every week, two dirty coal plants. And it's polluting the United States! It's causing people to die! The first guy to introduce a global warming bill was me, 22 years ago. The first guy to support solar energy is me, 26 years ago. Came out of Delaware. But guess what? China's going to burn 300 years of bad coal, once we figure out how to clean their coal up because it's going to ruin your lungs and there's nothing we can do about it. No coal plants here in America, build 'em, if they're going to build them over there, make 'em clean, because they're killing you!
RUSH: Now, put yourself in the Obama campaign headquarters. You're David Axelrod in there and you're writing Obama's next speech and you're writing the next answers to his next questions. And the phone rings, and someone says, "You know, Biden just said that you guys ran a really cruel ad on McCain; if he'd have had anything to do with it, he wouldn't have run it." "He said what?" "Yeah, that's what he said." Then the phone rings again: "Biden's out there saying no more clean coal plants in the United States when Obama has pledged $200 million to build more clean coal plants." (laughing) You see why I'm giving some of this stuff credence that the theory is have him just say all these off-the-wall, wacko things that they just can't abide anymore? We're not through. We're not through.
Yesterday in Baltimore at the National Guard Association conference, Senator Biden again.
BIDEN: If you want to know where Al-Qaeda lives, you want to know where Bin Laden is, come back to Afghanistan with me. (rimshot) Come back to the area where my helicopter was forced down, a three-star general and three United States senators at 10,500 feet in the middle of those mountains. I can tell you where they are.
RUSH: He's speaking to the National Guard. So he didn't say he was "shot down," but when you say that you're in a helicopter with a general and two other senators and you are "forced down" and you're in a military helicopter, what in the world does he want people to think? He wanted them to think it was mechanical or that they got shot down. So they went and asked John Kerry about this, the haughty John Kerry (by the way, he served in Vietnam) 'cause he was on the trip, and I think Chuck Hagel was there, too. I forget who the other senator was. And Kerry -- who was probably clueless about the context -- "Oh, snowstorm. Nobody predicted it. It came outta nowhere. We barely got down there, and had some troops come rescue us. It wasn't a bad place to be, but snowstorm that forced us down." Now, remember, this is the new snipper fire (sic), because Hillary was fired on in the green zone and I think Biden said he got fired on in the green zone, right? Hillary's dodged snipper fire in the green zone. (laughing) These guys, the transparent badge of courage.
We got one more. On the Today Show today, Matt Lauer talking to The Messiah, and Lauer says, "Look, as part of this whole economic picture, the AIG situation? On Tuesday night the Fed decided to bail 'em out, huge amount of money.
That morning, prior to the bailout, John McCain said that the federal government should not bail out AIG. You chastised him," and then Lauer added this. Cut nine.
LAUER: Three minutes later, in an interview with Meredith Vieira, Joe Biden, your running mate --
OBAMA: Right.
LAUER: -- was asked the exact same --
OBAMA: Right.
LAUER: -- question --
OBAMA: Yeah.
LAUER: Should the federal government bail out AIG?
OBAMA: Yeah. Yeah.
LAUER: And he said no.
OBAMA: Well, then I -- Yeah.
LAUER: The federal government should not bail out AIG.
OBAMA: And I think -- and I think -- and I think, uh, uh, that in that situation I think Joe should have waited as well.
RUSH: You know, if Sarah Palin had said half the things that Biden is saying, what do you think the media would be doing to her? What do you think they'd be doing to her? Folks, do you realize it may be time for a brand-new Operation Chaos? I don't know if we'd call it Operation Chaos, maybe call it Operation Save Joe Biden. The operation's objective would be to keep Biden on the ticket, if for no other reason than programming assistance for this program.
RUSH: We found another one. We don't have any audio on this, but we found another one. Now, keep in mind Biden told Katie Couric last night that he's gotta be careful about what he says 'cause Republicans are going to jump on every word. (laughing) So he's being careful! (laughing) This is Biden disciplined. This statement was made on September 20th, three days ago. It's an MSNBC story. He was in Castlewood, Virginia, and at a campaign event the question of gun control came up. Biden said, "Barack Obama...." (laughing) "Barack Obama ain't taking my shotguns, so don't buy that malarkey. If he tries to fool with my Beretta, he's got a problem." Did the Secret Service call Biden and say, "Did you just threaten a presidential candidate?" (laughing) Folks, folks, we have a new program, SOB: Save our Biden -- Operation Sling Blade. (laughing) I begged them! I begged them. (interruption) No, it's from MSNBC! I've got it right here. Biden: "Don't Fool with My Beretta," by Carrie Dann from NBC/NJ's Mike Memoli.
RUSH: I've got the link right here. I just read it off the computer, and it's The MSNBC First Read website, like ABC's The Note. All right. "Castlewood, VA -- Joe Biden took on an even folksier tone than usual as he campaigned in rural southwest Virginia this afternoon." This is September 20th, a Saturday. "Though his focus was again on economic issues, he deviated from script to talk about an issue not often discussed by the Democrats: guns.
The Delaware senator predicted that Republicans would seek to sway voters by threatening that Obama would take away guns. Biden, claiming to be a gun-owner himself who likes 'that little over and under,' called that notion bogus. 'Barack Obama ain't taking my shotguns, so don't buy that malarkey,' he said. 'If he tries to fool with my Beretta, he's got a problem.'
I wonder if the Secret Service called Biden and said, "Did you just threaten...?"
Anyway, at this little rural place in Virginia he decided, off the cuff, that he'd better get into gun control. Kerry went into someplace in Ohio or Indiana, Illinois, somewhere, "Is this where I get me a hunting license?"
They have this impression of people in rural areas, so Biden thought he would score some points by talking about gun control, and he said, "Barack Obama ain't taking my shotguns, so don't buy that malarkey. If Obama tries to fool with my Beretta, he's got a problem." Well, this jogged Mr. Snerdley's memory. We went back to the audio archives, July 23rd, 2007, Charleston, South Carolina, during what we all remember the CNN/YouTube debate where viewers sent in their questions and the on-the-spot editors at CNN chose the ones that would be used. And I'm sure that CNN chose this one because they wanted to make Republican rural voters look like hayseed hicks. The viewer in this case, Jared Townsend, and his question to all the candidates: "Tell me your position on gun control. As myself and other Americans really want to know if our babies are safe," and he held up his gun. "This is my baby, purchased under the 1994 gun ban." He held up his rifle, "Please tell me your views. Thank you." Anderson Cooper said, "Senator Biden, are you going to be able to keep his baby safe, meaning his guns?"
BIDEN: If that's his baby, he needs help. (rimshot) I don't know that he's mentally qualified to own that gun. I'm the guy that originally wrote the assault weapons ban. Look, we should be working with law enforcement right now to make sure that we protect people against people who don't -- are not capable of knowing what to do with a gun because they're either mentally imbalanced and/or because they have a criminal record.
RUSH: Okay, so a guy holds up his gun, loves his gun, "You gonna protect my baby?" And Biden, this guy's insane! He's not mentally qualified to own the gun. If that's his baby, he needs help. Saturday, Joe Biden: "Barack Obama ain't taking my shotguns, don't buy that malarkey. If he tries to fool with my Beretta, he's got a problem." Again, folks, a new Operation Chaos, it's called SOB, Save Our Biden, Operation Sling Blade. We need to keep this guy in the campaign.
Wild Thing's comment........
LMAO I love how he put this together.
That was a transcript from the Rush Limbaugh show. LMAO I love how Rush does so much homework for his show, he excells and this is one of the reasons. I love how he listed some of the latest gaffe's and how they came about.
Thank goodness Rush is on our side. And thank God Biden is NOT. hahahaha
I sure hope Obama does not change his VP. That would be horrible for many reasons.
If you look up the definition of “loose cannon” in the encyclopedia, iti would be Joe Biden's picture is in the entry.
Posted by Wild Thing at September 24, 2008 03:55 AM
Comments
This is all over Fox News this morning. Where is the mainstream press? Not where they would be if Sarah Palin made any of the same remarks. They would be all over it and it would be headline news.
Posted by: Bob at September 24, 2008 07:35 AM
Yes, you can bet if McCain or Palin made a slip it would usurp the world headlines. A strange silence from the broadcast media, Obama can't even utter his staged lines, Biden exhibits his verbal incontinence on a daily basis, every time Michelle opens her mouth unbridled racial hatred spews forth and they never get called for saying it. Maybe it is only the social phenomena known as diffusion of responsibility. Like the gawkers at the scene of a fatal accident nobody saw anything so move on, don't get involved you might have to answer for your actions. Nothing here to see.
Posted by: Jack at September 24, 2008 09:05 AM
On “GMA” this morning They showed clips from Leno and Conan
about the economy and Sara Palin, I waited for the Biden gaffe
but no such luck. Bias, what Bias, we ain’t got no stinking bias!!!
Posted by: Tincan Sailor at September 24, 2008 10:31 AM
Let's hope Joe B and Michelle O keep talking. The Repubs don't even need to run anti-Dem ads with these two talking. Like others have mentioned though, these gaffes are minimized if the MSM covers them up.
Posted by: TomR at September 24, 2008 10:48 AM
I never disagree with you, Chrissie, but I believe Biden is on our side. Hope he is not replaced. Hah!
Posted by: Horace at September 24, 2008 11:09 AM
Assuming Obama's advisers and puppet masters would even let him replace Biden, it would only prove the the public that he is indecisive.
Posted by: Robocop at September 24, 2008 11:26 AM
Well, Sombody's has to lead the Freak parade, it may as well be Biden. And he's so good at it.
Posted by: Mark at September 24, 2008 03:16 PM
Bob,it is not one the agenda of the media to say much about Biden or Obama if it is not praising them.
Posted by: Wild Thing at September 24, 2008 04:58 PM
Jack, yes I think you have a good point.
"Maybe it is only the social phenomena known as diffusion of responsibility"
Posted by: Wild Thing at September 24, 2008 05:01 PM
Tincan Sailor, LOL love how you put that.
"but no such luck. Bias, what Bias, we ain’t got no stinking bias!!! "
Your right too, it is totally one sided. OH well I just don't want Obama to get rid of Biden, he is just way too much fun with his gaffes. haahaha
Posted by: Wild Thing at September 24, 2008 05:07 PM
Tom I agree sooooo much, I don't want Biden or Michelle to stop. And I hope and pray Obama keeps Biden as his VP and does not do what all the gossip out there is wishing for.
Posted by: Wild Thing at September 24, 2008 05:09 PM
Horace, hahaha you are not disagreeing with me at all. Look up the Wild Thing's comment and see where I had put "I sure hope Obama does not change his VP. That would be horrible for many reasons.".
This is just a fun post at the things Biden says, there is nothing in it about wishing Obama would not have Biden as his VP. Even the graphic that Rush Liimbaugh made is saying that, we want to support Biden to be his VP. giggle.... it is the best pick for our side for Biden to stay Obama's VP.
I agree with you Horace, maybe even deep down inside of Biden he still thinks Obama would not make a good president. He did say something like that back when they had their debates.
Thanks Horace all is great.
Posted by: Wild Thing at September 24, 2008 05:14 PM
Robocop, yessss your right. Even if Obama wanted to ask Biden to not be his VP, it would really look bad for Obama on his ability to make decisions.
I even pray daily that Biden stays his VP till they lose in Nov. and then of course I pray too that they do lose in Nov.
hahaha
Posted by: Wild Thing at September 24, 2008 05:17 PM
Mark, giggle, Freak parade, good one.
Yes Biden is perfect for the job.
Posted by: Wild Thing at September 24, 2008 05:20 PM
No GI Joe Biden is from a scrapple state. Scrapple is another word for fried roadkill with a dash of ketchup. Joe eats a lot of bad scrapple and no doubt it's tainted. "Mad scrapple disease
is affecting his cranial regions?"
Posted by: darthcrUSAderworldtour07 at September 24, 2008 05:27 PM
Darth, hahaha that bad scrapple get em' every time.
Posted by: Wild Thing at September 24, 2008 06:14 PM
