Emmett Tyrrell: Palin vs. Biden

WASHINGTON -- How is it that an attractive woman who has been involved in state and local government since the early 1990s without much controversy is passed off in the media now as an airhead? Yet her opponent -- long known as an airhead, a braggart and even a plagiarist -- now is passed off as a statesman? I have in mind Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska and Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware or Scranton, Pa., or wherever he now claims to hail from. In September, Gov. Palin sat before ABC's Charlie Gibson and CBS' Katie Couric and was asked any question that popped into their minds or the minds of their researchers. The comely governor responded adequately. She might not win first prize on "Jeopardy," but then no "Jeopardy" winner has governed Alaska. Nonetheless, she is portrayed in the mainstream moron media as an airhead, and Sen. Biden is a statesman.

Well, take a glance at Sen. Biden's performance just last month. On Sept. 22, he bragged to a Baltimore audience: "If you want to know where al-Qaida lives, you want to know where bin Laden is, come back to Afghanistan with me. Come back to the area where my helicopter was forced down with 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." Two days later, he continued his BSing that al-Qaida's headquarters had been moved to "the mountains between Afghanistan and Pakistan, where (his) helicopter was recently forced down." Both statements were rehashes of his Sept. 9 garbage spiel that "the superhighway of terror between Pakistan and Afghanistan (is) where (his) helicopter was forced down." Left unsaid by the senator -- who rarely leaves anything unsaid -- was that the helicopter was "brought down" not by enemy fire but by inclement weather.

OK, maybe those outbursts do not reveal Sen. Biden as an airhead, but they do reveal him as a phony. So consider a few more of the senator's September follies. On Sept. 17, at an appearance in Ohio, Sen. Biden tapped the chest of a reporter (presumably male) and said, "You need to work on your pecs." Then there was the senator's interview with Katie Couric. It is Couric, of course, who supposedly revealed Gov. Palin's intellectual weightlessness, but late in September, she revealed both herself and Sen. Biden to be ignoramuses.

While interviewing him on what appeared to be a bus, Couric evoked this response from the Democrats' vice presidential candidate: "When the stock market crashed (in 1929), Franklin Roosevelt got on television and didn't just talk about, you know, the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened.'" Actually, Roosevelt was not president until 1933, and in 1929, there was no "television audience" because there was no television available to consumers. By now, all Biden watchers have had a good laugh at his expense on this one, but the laugh is on Couric, too. Her round, girlish, expressionless face revealed no hint that she was aware of the senator's botched historical reference.

So Sen. Biden, in one month, reminded us that he is a phony and an airhead, but in September, he also reminded us that he is a plagiarist. In his 1988 presidential bid, he was caught lifting from British Labor Party leader Neil Kinnock the Welshman's biographical treacle, adapting it for an American audience thus: "My ancestors who worked in the coal mines in Northeast Pennsylvania and would come up after 12 hours and play football for four hours." In Kinnock's version, his Welsh ancestors "could work eight hours underground and then come up and play football." This was a dreadful humiliation for Sen. Biden, made all the worse when it was revealed that he had faked his academic record and been accused of plagiarism in law school.

After being forced out of the 1988 race, the senator, one would have thought, never again would mention his "coal-mining" heritage. Yet Sept. 21, while addressing an audience filled with coal miners in Virginia, he fibbed: "I am a hard coal miner -- anthracite coal, Scranton, Pa. That's where I was born and raised." He was never a coal miner, and most of his early life was spent in Delaware.

Amazing as it sounds, all the recent pratfalls were committed by the Democrats' vice presidential nominee in but one month. Nonetheless, as we enter October, it is Gov. Palin whom the media deem controversial.

ARTICLE SNIPPET from post no. 1:

"WASHINGTON -- How is it that an attractive woman who has been involved in state and local government since the early 1990s without much controversy is passed off in the media now as an airhead? Yet her opponent -- long known as an airhead, a braggart and even a plagiarist -- now is passed off as a statesman? I have in mind Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska and Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware or Scranton, Pa., or wherever he now claims to hail from."

I saw part of a Palin Van Sustren interview last evening. Palin was asked a number of questions and fielded them very professionally.

Let's all remember that Nixon, Ford, Reagan, Bush, Dole, and Bush have been described as dummies. They called Reagan a sock puppet for
close to a decade. They are playing the same old 'every four year' game on Palin, that they have played on everyone else for the last
forty years.

Of course Carter, Mondale, Clinton, Gore, Kerry, and now Obama are passed off as learned statesmen, simply brilliant, on the cusp
of actual genious.

This gets tedious when you've seen the same play book used for fifty years.

They talk about Palin being afraid to greet the press. Funny, I don't remember Obama providing his birth certificate. I mean that's a
rather fundemental thing to ask for, and be refused.

When Obama provides his bona fide birth certificate come back and talk to me about Palin. It will never happen.

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I saw the McCain/Palin interview, part 1, with Sean Hannity last night. And a huge rush, a major visual, occurred to me while watching. Dems, MSM, Hollywoodites are attempting to use the "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" script vis a vis Obama.

Biden lies, supports a black guy = Good.
Palin does not lie, supports a white guy = bad.

Where Dem Strategists wish "us" to go to is to the "Guess Who's coming to dinner" script. Anyone who objects is therefore deemed a "racist".

But the reality: would I rather have a bloviating egoist to my home for a chat and visit? Would I rather have a downhome, calm, non-self-absorbed guest to my home for a chat and a visit. Last night's interview with McCain/Palin? These are the people who'd I'd invite to my home.

Point Two: (and I've been waiting patiently to see if this would come up.. it hasn't). Governor Sarah Palin clearly has the Inuit accent and speech patterns. Absolutely no one is bringing this up. But her accent and speech pattern are very obvious. And Dem Femmes and Hollywoodites make fun of her speech patterns. I don't think they are even aware of the fact they are making fun of a "cultural" mannerism. The Inuits are a very polite people, as anyone who has ever spent time with them, or in Alaska would know. A very cheery people, who walk softly and literally, carry a big stick.

In bottomline, a cult is masquerading in a political face-mask: The Obama/Biden ticket. Their campaign behaves as a cult: Treating their candidates as cult leaders. Everything is offlimits for discussion if the cult leaders (strategists) don't allow it, and the cult followers march, like drugged drones, in like, without independent thought, without cranial cells operating as they should.

The MSM likes to think it is one of the cult "leaders"; but it is not. They are only hoping to "not get hurt", to be included in quasi-leadership status. And this is why the MSM likes the "hope" message.

"When the stock market crashed (in 1929), Franklin Roosevelt got on television and didn't just talk about, you know, the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened.'" Actually, Roosevelt was not president until 1933, and in 1929, there was no "television audience" because there was no television available to consumers. By now, all Biden watchers have had a good laugh at his expense on this one, but the laugh is on Couric, too. Her round, girlish, expressionless face revealed no hint that she was aware of the senator's botched historical reference."

Biden's greatest contribution: this should be a great trick question on U.S. History tests for high school and middle school teachers.

Cindy, you are no ordinary person; you are extraordinary and made in the likeness of G_d. There never has been or will be another you.

You are like Sarah Palin because she too knows who she is. She doesn't pollute the gift of her life with farces and psychologic "face changes" as the elite do as well as those who've been corrupted to wear a mask in order to appear as a "god" in their own lives.

Most all ancient culture utilized "masks" as an embodiment of all types of masks humans wear in their lives. Some masks are better than others. We have everyday social masks that we wear which facilitate a community, a society. These are good masks; it means a little less of the individual for the public good.

And then there are bad masks.

The masks are never equal but are used by our Creator regardless of the masks people choose to wear of their own choosing.

Yours and Governor Sarah Palin's masks require far less energy expenditure; whereas the Obama Clan masks require the expenditure of TONS of energy. I figured out during the Clinton/Gore years, this is why they were constantly carping about "saving energy"; it's because, they don't. They don't know how to conserve; how to be conservative.

Liberals demand focus always be on the manifestations of the body (race, sex, ethnicity) so that folks won't focus on the deceptive masks being worn by some, amid the crowd.

Thank you for this exchange with you. Very pleasant.

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