Please do read Newsweek’s mash note to the vice-president “Why Liberals Have Grown to Love Joe Biden” — provided you’re able to properly keep your gag reflex in check. There are so many embarrassing things about it, it’s hard to know where to begin. I’ll start with this:
Although the Daily Biden is just a bit of fun, the enthusiastic response it has received on Twitter is perhaps emblematic of the mainstream and liberal-media crush on the loquacious former six-term senator from Delaware.
So the mainstream media has a “crush” on Joe Biden? Is that unintentional honesty? Whatever. He’s a heartbeat away from the presidency, and should be treated with the according scrutiny — not as some dopey mascot. But let’s listen to Newsweek try and defend Biden on the merits:
The stimulus act remains contentious “in some circles“?! A sizable majority of Americans think the stimulus has either hurt the economy or had no effect. As for Biden’s handling of the stimulus, I refer you to my column from Monday:
Sheriff Biden promptly laid down the law. “We know some of this [stimulus] money is going to be wasted,” he said the following June. “Some people are being scammed already.” A fiscal Wyatt Earp Biden is not.
The logorrhea has been such an ongoing problem that the Associated Press’ White House reporter has been known to relay Biden comments with the addendum, “That’s literally the quote.”
Oh yeah, Biden’s handling of the stimulus really inspires confidence. The stimulus is rife with fraud and the White House has tried to twist itself into accounting knots to make the legislation look like it’s creating jobs. But his “steadfast commitment,” really impresses a blogger at the Center for American Progress and that’s good enough for Newsweek to justify an entire article praising Biden’s frequently embarrassing performance as vice-president.
