Posted on 09/24/2008 4:43:28 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
Slate political reporter, Christopher Beam, has come up with a bizarre analysis of Joe Biden's many gaffes: He is immune to the effects of gaffes because he makes so many of them. I kid you not as you can read Beam's own words in defense of Biden (emphasis mine):
When Joe Biden described an Obama ad attacking John McCain's inability to use a computer as "terrible," the world acted as if the Joe-pocalypse had finally arrived. Jonathan Martin of Politico called it "perhaps his most off-message statement yet." Newsday dubbed him "gaffe-a-minute Joe." National Review's Victor Davis Hanson said it raised "serious concern whether Biden is up to the job."
Please. Biden's blunder couldn't matter less. Not because gaffes never matter—they can, if they play into public perceptions of the candidate's character—but because Joe Biden is gaffe-proof. Whatever traps he sets for himself, however many minorities he offends, he always seems to wriggle out. It's almost as if, by committing so many gaffes, he has become immune to their effects. "Joe Biden Makes Gaffe" is the new "Dog Bites Man."
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PING!
You’re such a tease! You’ve been talking about this for a month. When do we get to see it?
Oh my... are liberals really all this insane? He makes so MANY gaffes it doesn’t matter? Something tells me that a gaffe in the middle of a hostile negotiation might spell DEATH to soldiers, or others... Does this guy REALLY think it’s a good idea to have someone this clueless - someone who can’t even parrot his campaign’s lines - as the “backup” for Obama?
Joe Biden makes Dan Quayle look like Albert Einstien
You can always “call him if you need him.”
“This just in, Biden’s an idiot...film at 11”
Like saying Hillary C. would’ve been a better VP candidate then he.
I’d like to see that in a TV ad in a few weeks.
“Oh my... are liberals really all this insane?”
Nope. Most are MORE insane...
He is the son of Boston Globe columnist Alex Beam.
If Joe Biden was ever caught masturbating when he was a teen, I bet he was able to finish up.
so, Joe Biden is really Prof. Irwin Corey ?
If he's "gaffe-proof" it's because the mainstream media gives him a pass on whatever he says.
When Bidenisms start to cause widespread snickering, things may change.
Then again, Quayle was savaged for things that would have made a Democratic politician lovable -- at least by the media.
No, Prof. Corey was playing the role of a fool...
Biden is the real deal...
Is putting one's foot in one's mouth a "gaffe" if the Media buries the incident down a memory hole? Call it a corollary to the tree falling in the woods with no witnesses condundrum.
I would say Biden is 90-proof.
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