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Best interview of Joe Biden ever

By Michelle Malkin • October 25, 2008 11:53 AM

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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#515421

On October 26th, 2008 at 1:06 pm, nlebou said:

The only way we should get behind an Obama presidency is to be watching over his shoulder every moment.
#515433

On October 26th, 2008 at 1:27 pm, Wildcatter1980 said:

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.
#515477

On October 26th, 2008 at 2:42 pm, Marie said:

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?
#515520

On October 26th, 2008 at 3:30 pm, happyscrapper said:

On October 26th, 2008 at 2:42 pm, Marie said:
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.
#515544

On October 26th, 2008 at 4:20 pm, Edouard said:

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.
#515620

On October 26th, 2008 at 6:56 pm, greysheepdog said:

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
#515635

On October 26th, 2008 at 7:19 pm, Surak said:

#267: kudos? Sure – maybe after they put the interview video back up. They need a spinal transplant, methinks.
#515641

On October 26th, 2008 at 7:28 pm, Rob said:

All you McAmnesty lovers don’t remeber this?????

The McCain campaign said it believed that exchange [about Sarah Palin] was over the line and as a result the interview scheduled for Larry King Live with Sen. McCain was pulled.

“As a presidential campaign, we reserve the right to adjust Senator McCain’s media schedule in order to ensure the most effective use of his time,” said Maria Comella, a spokeswoman. “After a relentless refusal by certain on-air reporters to come to terms with John McCain’s selection of Alaska’s sitting governor as our party’s nominee for vice president, we decided John McCain’s time would be better served elsewhere.”
#515642

On October 26th, 2008 at 7:30 pm, greysheepdog said:

Surak what are you talking about? The video is playing on their site in another browser as I type.
#515682

On October 26th, 2008 at 8:55 pm, Wayfaring Stranger said:

On October 26th, 2008 at 7:19 pm, Surak said:

#267: kudos? Sure – maybe after they put the interview video back up. They need a spinal transplant, methinks.

Well, I just watched it right there on wftv.com.

So yes, major kudos to Barbara West and wftv’s management.
#515716

On October 26th, 2008 at 9:49 pm, Mookie said:

I was impressed with Barbara West until finding out she’s married to a McCain staffer.
#515738

On October 26th, 2008 at 10:49 pm, greysheepdog said:

On October 26th, 2008 at 9:49 pm, Mookie said:
I was impressed with Barbara West until finding out she’s married to a McCain staffer.

So the hell what?
#515798

On October 27th, 2008 at 12:32 am, mattm said:

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.
#515928

On October 27th, 2008 at 7:53 am, MirCat said:

On October 26th, 2008 at 10:49 pm, greysheepdog said:

So the hell what?

So the hell what you say?!!!??!! She doesn’t have a plumbing license!!!!!angry exclamation points!!!!

- The Cat
#515974

On October 27th, 2008 at 8:41 am, Chief RZ said:

Reminds me of Hillary’s cackling when she was asked a difficult question. The can not stand nor are able to answer The Truth.
#515988

On October 27th, 2008 at 8:59 am, keylime said:

I emailed Ms. West today thanking her for being a journalist and not a robot.
#516174

On October 27th, 2008 at 10:39 am, JHSII said:

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.
#516239

On October 27th, 2008 at 11:17 am, DBNinKY said:

I was impressed with Barbara West until finding out she’s married to a McCain staffer.

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.
#516249

On October 27th, 2008 at 11:23 am, frostrt said:

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).
#516267

On October 27th, 2008 at 11:32 am, harbormaster said:

And now the You Tube video at HotAir is no longer available.

Hmmm.
#516354

On October 27th, 2008 at 12:06 pm, Cosmo said:

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.”
#516367

On October 27th, 2008 at 12:10 pm, Cosmo said:

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.
#516436

On October 27th, 2008 at 12:36 pm, Milwaukee Mike said:

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.
#516654

On October 27th, 2008 at 2:37 pm, RetFireman said:

On October 26th, 2008 at 2:42 pm, Marie said:
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?

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.