Best interview of Joe Biden ever
Biden to Barbara West: “Are you joking?”
WFTV Channel 9′s Barbara West puts increasingly erratic, super-gaffetastic Joe Biden on the hot seat over ACORN, voter fraud, and Barack Obama’s “Spread the wealth” comments.
The result?
Best interview of Joe Biden ever.
The increasingly erratic, super-gaffetastic Biden was so upset that the campaign canceled an interview West’s station had scheduled with his wife, Jill. The Orlando Sentinel reports:
Why did Barack Obama’s campaign cancel a WFTV-Channel 9 interview with Jill Biden, wife of Sen. Joe Biden? The campaign cited “an unprofessional interview” WFTV’s Barbara West did Thursday with Joe Biden. 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.” Marsh said West’s insistence that Obama was an organizer for ACORN was “100 percent false.” “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,” Marsh wrote. West said, “I think I asked him some pointed questions. . . . I don’t think I was rude or inconsiderate to him.”
She was completely professional and gracious.
But remember: Anything less than total sycophancy from the Obamedia is considered “combative.”
Keep Barbara West in your thoughts and prayers. She can expect the Joe the Plumber treatment any minute now.
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Did not seem like a very tough round of questions to me at all!! You and your buddy are running for office and you can’t take a question without getting offended? Wait until you are across the table from someone that, let’s say, wants to chop off your head during the interview? (on camera, of course.)I think the interviews get tougher from here.
cicerokid – No, they will all be singing kumbaya to each other – or at least that’s what they expect us to believe…
The Obama people are only blocking the video for your own good. The fairness doctrine says that anything that Obama thinks is not fair should be removed to save public sensibilities. Please pay your taxes and do not worry about any unfairness… all will be taken care of.
For most of us, you are so right. However, when every interview is a charade designed to enable your candidacy and gloss over any “embarassments,” a real question would be like getting hit with a barrel full of ice water. Plus, when you feel you are entitled such questions are an affront to you.
This speaks volumes about the mindset of Biden and Obama.
While I’ll agree that the direction of the questioning is something we’ll never see from the Drive-bys, I doubt any “moderates” would have seen any problems with Joey B’s answers. In order for there to be any effect an interviewer would have to do a far better job than Ms. West did in this interview. Quoting Marx won’t get you anywhere with a “Joe Sixpack” Democrat or Libertarian. The older ones are just as apt to ask you: Was that Groucho or Chico that said that?
Pulling the link, if that is what happened, is probably the dumbest thing anyone trying to surpress its being shown. It is in cyberspace. Even if pulled from YouTube it will only make things worse for the people involved in a coverup.
By being too careful and too perfect, the Obama campaign could do something really stupid that WOULD cost them the election.
I was puzzled by the lack of followup. It almost seemed a bit too stilted, not graceful, nor perhaps very well thought out. Even though she didn’t do a very good job, I’m still glad she asked the questions, just to see Biden’s reaction.
Anyone still thinking Obama is not a totalitarian thug are beyond being taken seriously. Anyone still thinking Obama and his surrogates had nothing to do with smearing Sarah Palin are too full of the same sickness to ever be healed. Anyone still thinking Obama has 1/10th the intelligence and/or honor of Senator McCain have flunked completely out of the school of life. And, finally, anyone thinking Biden is anything other than a clown is one also.
The reason it was so short, with no follow-ups, is that the local station she works for only had a four-minute satellite window to do the interview. She did a good job of cramming a lot of information into the brief time available. And she had the crap-weasel, as Michelle would say, squirming. I also took offense at his assumption she didn’t write her own questions. What a smarmy piece of work he is. Good for her managing to wipe that smug smile off of his face.
3Angela, it was a sweeeeeeeeeeet moment.
It is going to be hard to get behind a President Obama… but I guess we will soon have to. It may not be so bad….
I hope….
Wow! Give this lady a pat on the back and a raise. Is Barbara West Michelle Malkin’s twin sister? He was dead serious when he asked “are you serious”? I guess Barbara didn’t know she was not suppose to ask REAL questions while interviewing this dildo. I’ve been away from home for a few days and just heard of this and this is sooooooooooooo cool!!!! Thanks Barbara and just like I do Michelle and her family I will be praying for your safety.
The story about Biden’s interview made RED LETTER headline on Drudge!
ACTION ALERT!
If you live in New York City or LA, we need your help tomorrow.
We need people to go like Jason did at the DNC and infiltrate the Marxists:
No Joke, we need to know what they are planning…
Same cadence as…
The Red Commies are coming!
The Red Commies are coming!
(Modern-day Paul Revere)
Are you kidding? Get behind an Obama presidency? The Clinton presidency comes nowhere near an Obama disaster. For the first time in my 64 years of adult life I will hope for a military coup. Obama is an enemy of our country. Period.
Biden is a whore.
#212,,,,,,,,,,,AGREED!!!!
The interview appears to have been taken down by the news station.
Please BudFox #213, at least whore’s work for a living. Please don’t put them down by comparing them to that moron. Biden is a gutter rat slut. Oh no, now I have to apoligize to gutter rats!
It is on you tube now..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxT0ELP7az0&feature=related
I’m just sick of Joe Biden and this election.
Nothing like using otherwise good and honorable soldiers sworn to protect the Constitution to fulfill one of your fantasies.
Our system and the American people will survive an Obama Presidency if that happens. He underestimates this country and so do you.
Obama will turn this country into Detroit.
Pastor Manning is right; blacks are not ready to lead this country.
Only if we sit on our single points of contact and let him.
Apparently Obama has pulled the plug on this TV station — his wife won’t be doing an interview, and no future interviews either.
Aaaaw, what’s the matter? Too many hard questions? After all, this is the candidate who has been coddled by the softball-throwing media for 2 years now.
Dare NOT ask any real questions now, especially while he is measuring the curtains in the White House!
He thinks he already has this in the bag…
What a pompous azz.
What does “sit on single points of contact” mean? Oh, and BTW, it is not my fantasy to have a coup; nor was it one when I served my country for 6 years in the Army Security Agency many years ago. Nor do I believe our country can survive an Obama presidency. No country can survive an enemy in charge of it. Nor can a country survive an administration that wants to cut our military budget by 25%. The outcome of that would be limiting us to an all or nothing response to aggression, either of which would be the end of this country.
It is a sweet fantasy though….
The Obama Temptation
by Mark Levin
(The voluntary surrender of liberty)
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZTI1NmUxYjA4ODczZjgxOWJhMzQ3ODI0MDRkOWFlMDQ
Barbara West is doing a great job…I do find it interesting the call letters of the station WFTV…I thought at first it was WTFV as in “What The F#$k”
The questions weren’t that hard. They weren’t the softballs the Osama Obama campaign is used to.
I would have liked tougher questions, such as “Why doesn’t Obama release his original birth certificate for authentication?”.
+1 for getting that fool to stop that idiotic smile.
How about WFTV for the Whole F’ing Truth TV!
Whatsa matter, itsy bitsy Joey and Baracky get their widdle feewings hurt by a real reporter asking some real questions? Arrogant ba$tard$.
What is President Obama going to do when he has to stand and deliver in front of the WH press corps, or the American people, when times get tougher? They will, and he will find that not all are his buddies. The press is in for more financial downturns after this election. They will blame it on the economy, but the blatant partisanship of the MSM is going to come home to roost and exacerbate the media’s already weakened positions. Reporters will have to get tougher to sell papers or gain/hold viewers to try to keep their jobs.
This interview will probably be used as ammunition for the ‘Fairness Doctrine’ by the Dems. You can bet that there will not be any left-wing radio or TV clips used as fodder.
Has anyone here considered how the left will try to destroy Fox News, as well as Rush, if/when they get the FD implemented?
“Nothing like using otherwise good and honorable soldiers sworn to protect the Constitution to fulfill one of your fantasies.”
Hey. the President takes this oath:
“I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”
What if he violates his oath and the Congress either can’t or won’t stop him?
At that point one could argue that the military has an obligation to step in.
Yes, it would smack of a “banana republic”, but if Barack tries to turn this country into a Soviet Republic I would HOPE those “good and honorable soldiers” would act.
The constitution isn’t a suicide pact, remember?
travlinman, you are dreaming. A White House press conference under Obama will be nothing but an hour-long tongue kiss by the media’s tamed watchdogs.
go watch old clips of Brezhneve press conferences if you want to know what the atmosphere will be like.
Grovel, grovel, cringe, cringe, fawn, fawn…
And EVERYONE should see “The Lives of Others” to learn about life in a totalitarian state. Get it on Netflix.
Saw a YouTube video of this interview over at Right Wing News.
She sure was, but I think we all know that won’t stop the left from claiming otherwise. I guarantee you that by this time tomorrow (or perhaps even earlier than that) liberals will be roundly condemning Ms. West as a “right-wing hack” who should be immediately fired for daring (daring I say!) to ask Joe Biden some tough questions.
The nerve of her! How DARE she ask Joe Biden a tough question! Doesn’t she know that as a journalist, she has a responsibility to craft a narrative in order to help Obama wi-er, I mean ensure objective and balanced reporting of the facts?
Oh yes they will be.
Obama called the bloody Justice Department when someone ran a political ad he disagreed with. You really think the Obamessiah would authorize a press to any reporter that had the temerity to ask him anything but bubble-wrapped, cotton-packed, lightly-tossed softball questions?
On October 25th, 2008 at 10:06 pm, Bud Fox said:
That’s enough. We don’t need racists here. Credibility factor: 0.
fulldroolcup, I rarely dream.
Unless there is a complete collapse of government, caused by a constitutional crisis that neither the Congress or the military will end, you will not see a totalitarian regime take over. Besides we do still have guns via the rights bestowed by our Creator and the 2nd amendment(for now). That right to bear arms is in place for only one reason and it is not for home protection from crack-heads. It is there to keep the Government Of, By, and For the People in check.
The press are sharks and will go into a feeding frenzy when blood is in the water. Look at what happened to Bill Clinton. The Obama scandals will begin to bleed profusely when the corruption and greed can no longer be contained in his administration of fools.
Do you think that people who are as out of touch as Obama and crew will be able to manage all of their political hangers-on? It will be a three-ring circus with Pelosi and Reid as dual ring masters.
I will get the movie and watch it. The synopsis of it that I read got my interest piqued.
Bud Fox, Race has nothing to do with it. Ideology has everything to do with it. Just because the left cannot distinguish between the two, don’t let yourself be blinded by it. It will poison you.
The statement concerning socialists includes RINOs.
travelinman, you are living in a childlike state of nature.
You say:
You’ve got it assbackwards. The move toward totalitarianism is itself a violation of the Constitution.
The Oath you refer to does not require anyone to sit on their thumbs UNTIL the government “collapses”. Wholesale violations of the Constitution are enough to trigger an overwhleming sense of the need to ACT.
mightsamurai dispenses with your main argument.
If the DOJ and Supremes are completely captive to a rogue Executive, and if the Congress will not act, what power does the press have?
The press, having abdicated their responsibility by helping this anti-American radical get elected, will NOT bother to try to expose him, because there will be no one to expose him to.
So who ELSE but the military will be in a position to right the Ship of State?
One-American #197.
Thanks. It seems to come and go. Must be a little liberal bug in the system somewhere.
Oh and btw, travelinman: please explain why the press is protecting Obama NOW, but will turn on him LATER.
Sharks, you say? Where are they NOW???? You think maybe some of those sharks wouldn’t like to get the credit for bringing down…Obama…in the final weeks of a campaign?
Your analysis makes no sense, especially when Dan Rather himself, who tried a last-minute bringdown of Bush, says he’s never seen anything like the pro-candidate bias he’s seeing this election.
So enough with your muzzy prognostications. Give us some evidence!
The laws on the books at the time of Obama’s birth required the U.S. citizen parent to have resided in the United States for ten (10) years, five (5) of which were after the age of fourteen (14). Obama’s mother was only eighteen (18) years old when Obama was born in Kenya, so she could not give him U.S. Citizenship.
It appears that..
1) He was born a Kenyan citizen.
2) He became an Indonesian citizen when he was adopted by his step-father.
3) Today he is either a Naturalized (not Natural born) Citizen, or he is an illegal alien.
Obama…the “undocumented” candidate.
Michelle,
I heard that the Obama campaigned has already cut off anymore interviews with that station (they cancelled Bidens Wife’s interview already) citing the “unprofessional interview” with Mr. Gaffetastic.
Just more insight into how an Obama administration would tret those who do not believe.
it could only have been better if she had refered to the “one” as barak HUSSEIN obama each time. The plugs would have been flyin’…(that’s Palin speek for “flying” to all you bluebloods)
On October 25th, 2008 at 1:05 pm, Redstate Redhead said:
That was the most telling part of the entire interview…
It’s not just an insult to Barbara West…
…it’s an indication that Biden is used to being asked questions that are pre-written for the interviewer!
What an admission about most of the MSM!
So tell me, Joe, who writes most of the questions you get asked?
Who runs the MSM branch of the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy?
Those who can’t handle the truth,
try to silence those who speak it.
Barbara West, welcome to Obama’s “enemies list”…consider it a badge of honor!
Hah! Imagine if every interview was like that, Biden! Then you’d have an idea of what it’s like to be a conservative running for office!
Maybe she didn’t ask any follow-ups, and she did let him go on the last question without even bothering to answer it let alone deny the accusation, but maybe she doesn’t need to.
My opinion is that the McCain Campaign needs to take this interview and run with it. They need to make as many commercials as humanly possible with it and ram it through as much as possible between now and Tuesday next.
They need to take the quote, ‘The Obama Campaign has not paid one red cent to Acorn’s ‘Get Out The Vote’.” and crush them with the numbers and dates of just how much and hen the Obama Campaign gave money.
Then they need to nail them about his lie that Obama has no connection with Acorn with the dates that he represented them and any other time he had any dealings with them.
Then they need to hammer home the fact that when pushed about being a Socialist, Biden could not even answer. He only, childishly, responded, “Are you kidding”? No denial, never said that he wasn’t.
The mileage that could be gained from just this one interview…the only interview I have seen in 2 years that actually asked real questions…should not be ignored.
If the McCain Campaign does nothing with this, then they truly do not want to win.
This interview alone should be enough to swing it permanently into McCain’s favor.
Obama’s press conferences will have a bunch of stooges who get thrills down their legs.
Something to think about – Obama and Joe Biden have been treated with kid gloves by the media, and this interview shows what will happen when they actually get asked tough questions. They are totally unprepared for it. Odds are, if they’re elected, the NY Times and Washington Post will fawn all over them, but the WH Press Room could go tough if something bad happens and they do the wrong thing. This is a fine example of what will happen when these two are “tested” and it didn’t go well.
The media brought these two up and in the end, somehow, someone in the media will bring them down.
Awesome comment. Couldn’t agree more. Hope the McCain campaign of the RNC takes your advice – and the word “lying” should be key as well as the phrase “can you trust these guys with your country?”
Good interview. Love to see her interview Sarah Palin, but sadly the campaign would never allow that.
/But still… the media over here is pretty bad when it comes to asking politicians questions… after all, there is only one Jeremy Paxman!
O/T but I want to sprinkle this everywhere especially in light of Biden’s interview with the FL reporter.
Important distinction that NEEDS to be made over and over again between now and Nov. 4.
When Obama talks about reducing taxes for 95% of working Americans he is only talking about income taxes. He is not talking about payroll taxes which is where the funding for new programs will come from.
The nationalized health care plan the Dems are salivating about is a 7% payroll tax, the new retirement plan to replace our 401k’s is a 5% payroll tax, and the wage insurance is a 1% payroll tax for a total new tax burden of 13%. Add that to the current 6% Social Security payroll tax and the 1% (or more) Medicare payroll tax and we’re looking at a payroll tax burden in excess of 20% which is not subject to the deductions the income tax is.
No one is exempt from payroll taxes so Obama is simply lying.
The Oath of Enlistment:
I, (NAME), do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God.
Officers Oath of Office:
I, [name], do solemnly swear, (or affirm,) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.
As seen above the military’s prime responsibility is to the Constitution, not to some transitory politician or political party that may be in power at any given time. If a politician or party should violate the Constitution, and the normal checks and balances fail to rein them in, then I say that it would become the obligation of our military to move decisively to put an end to that politician or party’s continued term in office. For the military to fail to do so would be a violation of their oath and bring eternal shame and dishonor on them.
Here is one of the reader’s comments from the Orlando Sentinal that talked about the Biden interview. “I am very surprised that Hal has had NOTHING to say about the AMBUSH over at CNN this week, that used lies when interviewing Governor Sarah Palin. FOX NEWS has slamed CNN for their REFUSAL to apologise for this outrage. The CNN reporter used outright lies when refering to a National Review column. CNN has sunk to a new low but not as low as the gutter news outlet of MSNBC. Keith Olbermann actually went on, and on, and on about how McCain said the Tampa Bay Devil Rays when the “Devil” was dropped from their name a year ago. I watched in disbelief as Olbermann bashed McCain like he had committed a mortal sin. I thought Olbermann’s head was going to explode. I never did hear him mention that Biden said FDR “got on TV” during the start of the “depression” when he wasen’t president and there was no TV. Or when Biden said a three letter word “JOBS.” Or when Biden became a fortune teller and says Obama will be tested within 6 months–bla, bla, bla.”
Unfortunately, the McCain campaign is running out of money because they didn’t allow illegal contributions from Saudi Arabia.
It’s so frustrating everytime you think McCain is getting tougher he comes out with some lame thing to shoot himself in the foot,like “we have nothing to fear from an Obama presidency,he’s a good family man.” Is he kidding? Now I guess he’s telling people they should fear from all the authority the dems will have with the house and congress,sheesh!!!! you should have said that ages ago Senator McCain. I think Barbara West did a great job.You could tell Biden had the wind taken out of his sails and his answers were less than believable.Unfortunately though with everything that has come out on Obama and his utter arrogance between the Obama flags,presidential seals,fainting and messiah stance,his claiming he wasn’t born in a manger,but on Krypton and the Obama youth chorus sadly no one seems to care.I keep wondering how can people be fooled so easily?I received the answer when I was at a relatives house and she told me Obama will take money from the rich and give it to me.I guess that’s why he’s winning.For the first time in my adult life I see people in this country want socialism.How very sad.
The only way we should get behind an Obama presidency is to be watching over his shoulder every moment.
Florida TV newswoman assaulted. No link to recent interview with Democrat VP Candidate mentioned unlike in the assault on TV newswoman with cameo role in movie An American Carol.
I just heard that the Obama campaign will no longer allow interviews with that news station. Did Freedom of Information just go down in flames?
In a word, yes.
Is it any wonder, given such intolerant, none-shall-deviate-from-the-party-line tactics by the Obama camp, that no one will dare ask Obama or Biden a sincerely hard question?
Three cheers to Barbara West for her brave interview.
Not sure if this has been posted before but the leftards at Kos have done the legwork to provide the emails of the station so they can scream at them. Lets give WFTV some kudos to offset the haters…
Contact the Station Manager directly here:
General Manager: shawn.bartelt@wftv.com
News Director: bob.jordan@wftv.com
News@wftv.com
Barbara.west@wftv.com
#267: kudos? Sure – maybe after they put the interview video back up. They need a spinal transplant, methinks.
All you McAmnesty lovers don’t remeber this?????
Surak what are you talking about? The video is playing on their site in another browser as I type.
On October 26th, 2008 at 7:19 pm, Surak said:
Well, I just watched it right there on wftv.com.
So yes, major kudos to Barbara West and wftv’s management.
I was impressed with Barbara West until finding out she’s married to a McCain staffer.
So the hell what?
Biden must have been thinking, i have never been asked a question like this so far. That’s it I’ll make fun of the reporter.
So the hell what you say?!!!??!! She doesn’t have a plumbing license!!!!!angry exclamation points!!!!
- The Cat
Reminds me of Hillary’s cackling when she was asked a difficult question. The can not stand nor are able to answer The Truth.
I emailed Ms. West today thanking her for being a journalist and not a robot.
First of all, “rob”, I’m not a McAmnesty lover. I support Palin/McCain because they’re better than the alternative – the ObamaMessiah.
Second, if you don’t know the difference between actual reporters asking real questions – like with Barbara West and Joe Biden – and liberals trying to trap Republicans with hit pieces, then you’re just another useful idiot.
What does her husband’s employer have to do with her objectivity as a reporter? Or aren’t females capable of remaining non-partisan when their husbands’ interests are involved? I think Mary Matalin would disagree.
I don’t care who she’s married to; the point is that she asked THE questions that needed asking. If Bush decided to immediately deny access to any journalist who asked him a difficult/hostile question, the press would be screaming for his blood (more than they are).
And now the You Tube video at HotAir is no longer available.
Hmmm.
Biden: “Are you joking? Is this a real question?”
That’s the arrogance that we’ve come to expect with the Messiah and his co-Messiah.
It’s also the arrogance that gets ordinary Joes punched in the jaw at the local watering hole.
It would’ve been perfect had West responded, “I only ask solid questions. This isn’t Countdown with Keith Olbermann, you know.”
Best part of the WFTV piece? It’s an ABC affiliate, not FOX, so the KosKooks and left shills can’t claim “Fair and Balanced Derangement Syndrome.”
Suck it, Trebek.
All were legitimate questions. Her rapid fire with no follow up on Biden’s responses is what was wrong with this interview.
The problem now is that if anyone dare ask similar questions again, they risk exclusion from access to anyone in an Obama administration, a chilling effect on an already skewed media.
Well, not that so much as we are given a preview of “The Fairness Doctrine”.
And as we can all see, McCain once again let’s a gift wrapped present go unopened and unused.
The YouTube video linked by the HotAir post has been removed.
Here is a working video.