Posted on 09/21/2014 12:43:40 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Joe Biden made three (or perhaps four) gaffes this past week, but a recent public speaking mishap might have flown under the media radar.
In that instance, the VP seemingly made up a president who never existed.
In a trifecta this week, the Democrat had to apologize for using the perceived anti-Semitic term “Shylocks,” referred to Asia as “the Orient” which was deemed offensive to Asian Americans, and praised former colleague Bob Packwood — a lawmaker who was chased out of the U.. Senate amidst sexual harassment charges in 1995 — in front of a women’s group.
In August, moreover, Biden forgot that Africa is a continent rather than a country, and while bemoaning that he lacked a rich Republican son, the former Senator from Delaware apparently misremembered that son Hunter Biden –a lawyer, investment banker, and hedge fund executive – recently received a cushy appointment to the board of the largest natural gas producer in Ukraine.
During the gun control debate, Biden –who receives 24/7 protection from armed Secret Service agents — repeatedly recommended homeowners get a shotgun and fire it in the air in the event of intruders, an act that might be illegal in some jurisdictions.
The media seemed to miss Biden’s Labor Day gaffe, however, during a speech in front of primarily union members in Detroit at the site of the old Tigers Stadium. At the event, Biden was railing against corporations for income inequality, and offered the following insight:
"Why do CEOs now make 333 times more money than the line worker when back when Wager was president, they made 25 times what the line worker. What happened? What happened?”
You don’t have to be a political science major or a historian to know that there never has been a president named “Wager.” Perhaps Biden, who was first elected to the Senate in 1973 and has virtually no private sector work experience, had some combination of “wages” and “Reagan” on his mind?
Fast-forward to about 10:40 to hear the Wager comment:
(VIDEO-AT-LINK)
In general, the Big Media has been far more gentle in reporting (or not reporting) Biden’s bloopers in stark contrast with how Republicans such as Vice President Dan Quayle or VP candidate Sarah Palin were scorned and mocked as dummies. Parenthetically, Biden and Palin debated on national TV during the 2008 presidential campaign, and most fair-minded observers believed that Palin more than held her own if not actually won. The debate is on YouTube, and you can draw your own conclusions if you so desire.
With respect to the transgressions of Senator Packwood, who was immediately denounced by feminist groups that nonetheless supported Democrats such as Bill Clinton and the late Ted Kennedy through their personal scandals, the Powerline blog opined that “If a Republican praised Bob Packwood as the kind of senator we need more of today, as Biden did, it is hard to imagine the hysteria that would result. War on women? It would be Armageddon!…”
Despite apparently making up a name for a past president, do you think that Joe Biden is a viable presidential candidate in 2016 for the Democrats?
I just hope this idiot runs for prez. He won’t of course.
The other loons have to jump the fence to enter the White Hut.
Biden gets driven there in a limo.
I hope he runs as well. Hillary is also a gaffe-a-day machine.
Wagner-Peyser? Yeah.
Oh, yes, she’s a total gaffe machine. Why doesn’t she just get on a waiting list for an expensive old folks home??? The lowly-rated Chuck Todd said today that Biden wasn’t running.
Actually I meant the National Labor Relations Act, also known as the Wagner Act.
Why is the Orient now considered offensive? Some people need to get a life.
For once Biden was right. “Oriental” is the correct description of people from SE Asia/China/Japan.
Continent of “Asia” Includes such countries as Turkey, Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Russia, Kazakhstan, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, India, etc. Asia is the largest continent on earth. It has people of all races and all skin colors. The Orientals are Asians of course, but so are the Caucasians of Russia and Iran.
what was the new name for President Ebola Bahama?
The media is trying to take out Slow Joe before the 2016 election cycle.
They don’t want him gumming up the coronation of Hillary
The comment reminds me of the Shanklin parody PSA on Rush’s show, where President Barack O-Wager advises people not to gamble in Atlantic City or Vegas, but “invest” on a sure thing in Washington DC…
This is the same guy who told the perky one whom I shall not name that when the stock market crashed in 1929 (he didn’t say the year but the context made it clear he could only have meant 1929) FDR, who was not inaugaurated for his first term until 1932, went on TV to address the people. It doesn’t matter that FDR wasn’t even president then because there was no TV then. Television existed only as a developmental project in a laboratory at that time. Biden was spinning pure fantasy which could be instantly recognized as such by anyone with a minimal knowledge of history but was not called on it by the perky one, it went right by the genius newswoman who went to great lengths to make Sarah Palin look stupid. She didn’t need to do anything to make Biden look like an idiot except refer to a couple of historical facts but I doubt if she even caught his error let alone call him out on it. Incredibly there are still some pure fools who don’t believe there is media bias against conservatives. We have heard ten thousand times more about an extra e on the end of potato than we will ever hear about Biden’s idiotic goofs.
What can you expect from people who call those who don’t believe in anthropogenic global warming “climate change deniers”? It is like calling someone who doesn’t believe in money trees a forest denier. Liberalism really is a mental disorder. Many of them can speak coherently all day long about technical matters but when the conversation shifts to politics or morals they babble away making no sense at all while imagining that those who disagree with their insanity are the real idiots.
I have a new title for Obama - Tnediserp
In Joe’s defense, he’s a complete idiot. But he is following the narrative like a good boy.
> In a trifecta this week, the Democrat had to apologize for using the perceived anti-Semitic term “Shylocks,”...
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