The noble son of Welsh coal miners has stepped in it again. At a fundraiser last night, Biden talked tough about the kind of questions he would put to Sarah Palin. He vowed he would ask her about “the superhighway of terror between Pakistan and Afghanistan where my helicopter was forced down…John McCain wants to know where Bin Ladin and the gates of Hell are? I can tell him where. That’s where Al Quaida is. That’s where Bin Ladin is. It’s not in the country of Iraq.” Helicopters being forced down alongside the superhighway of terror? Sounds terrifying, and makes you wonder if a senator can qualify for the Medal of Honor. Unfortunately for the lower half of the Democratic ticket, contemporaneous reports paint a markedly less thrilling portrait of the incident than Senator Biden’s characteristically embellished account. Greg Pollowitz at National Review documents how USA Today called the play-by-play on the day of the event:
Strangely, there wasn’t a single mention of “the superhighway of terror.” In Washington, Joe Biden has a reputation for being a nice enough fellow but also a consummate blowhard. America is about to learn that he came by the latter part of this reputation the old fashioned way – he earned it.
