Posted on 10/28/2008 11:04:51 AM PDT by Fred
Nothing Barbara West has done in her 22 years at WFTV-Channel 9 has generated the attention of her interview last week with Sen. Joe Biden, Barack Obama's running mate. The contentious chat has become an Internet sensation -- 1.2 million hits on YouTube during the weekend and more than 500,000 on WFTV.com -- and generated controversy about how journalists question their subjects.
"The thing that stuns me is that this has become about me," said anchor West, 60. She appeared Monday night on The O'Reilly Factor on Fox News Channel and Larry King Live on CNN and plans to be on three more national shows today.
"It's not a good thing. I am not trying to seek the limelight in any way," she said. "I did not do the interview to make headlines, but to get answers that people in the street want to know. When I'm doing fundraisers, I see vast numbers of people. My questions were reflective of what they're asking about."
In the Biden interview, West quoted Karl Marx and asked, "How is Senator Obama not being a Marxist if he intends to spread the wealth around?"
"Are you joking?" said Biden.
"No," West said.
West later asked Biden about his comments that Obama could be tested early on as president. She wondered whether the Delaware senator was saying America's days as the world's leading power were over.
"I don't know who's writing your questions," Biden shot back.
Sentinel readers described the interview as the best or the worst they have seen. "Barbara must be the last honest reporter in America," wrote one.
"West was asking the most idiotic questions I've seen from a professional reporter," countered another.
"I was trying to get to the heart of things, not lob softballs," West said.
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How soon until they start the character defamation and background checks against this news anchor?
Rush just said they are going after her husband.
Rush also said a Philadelphia station was banned earlier with another Biden exchange. Ask the wrong question, and GITMO, waterboarding..... (?sarc)
Biden Bans Philly Station
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZT1y1io4vA
FREE SPEACH? You can see how a Marxist like Obama approaches that question.
> FREEP THE POLL at the bottom of the link page, people.
Which link?
There were three links posted, and I didn’t see a poll on any of them.
As with Joe the Plumber, irrelevant issues are clouding the real message here -
Which is: When confronted with that SAME KIND OF QUESTIONS that have been put to Sarah Palin for weeks, Biden could not utter one coherent answer. He got pissed, put on his s-eating grin, and impugned the reporter, but he had no answers.
Had the table been turned, all we’d be hearing is how he’s unprepared, inexperienced, and a bumbling fool.
All of which is true, but instead it’s Barbara West whose feet are being held to the fire.
What hypocrisy.
FMCDH(BITS)
I breezed thru the article and didn’t see anything about Ms. West and her station being blackballed by the Obama campaign. Did I miss that part of the column? THAT is the real story.
Barbara West “speaking truth to power.” She ripped a page straight from the left-wing radical playbook . . . and the lefties don’t like it!
As a minimum they may try to “Bork” her. But I think because the election is only days away, she may get a pass. Why keep attention on a negative event when you’re running out of time to get your own message out?
If the Marxist Onada wins, however, this woman will be looking for a new job.
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