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<h2 style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'><span lang=EN style='color:#660000'>Saturday,
October 25, 2008<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
<h3 style='mso-margin-top-alt:3.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-line-height-alt:16.8pt'><a
name=6050218717425833310></a><span lang=EN style='font-size:17.0pt;font-family:
"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'><a
href="http://www.anonymousliberal.com/2008/10/someone-wants-job-at-fox-news.html"><span
style='color:black;text-decoration:none'>Someone Wants a Job at Fox News</span></a>
<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:19.2pt'><span lang=EN style='font-family:
"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'>The right wing blogs are all worked
into a lather over an <a
href="http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/25/biden-marx-mccain/">interview</a> Joe
Biden did recently with WFTV, a local television station in Orlando. They
seem to think Biden somehow embarrassed himself or got rattled during the
interview. The fact that they think that is further evidence of the
rapidly widening gulf between the reality most of us inhabit and the alternate
universe where most right wing bloggers now reside.<br>
<br>
In the interview, Biden never loses his composure, despite being bombarded with
questions that were so ridiculously loaded and counterfactual that Sean Hannity
would have been embarrassed to ask them. Here's the interview in its
entirety. You be the judge:</span><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><a
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TW_wQgWviZ8&eurl=http://www.anonymousliberal.com/2008/10/someone-wants-job-at-fox-news.html">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TW_wQgWviZ8&eurl=http://www.anonymousliberal.com/2008/10/someone-wants-job-at-fox-news.html</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:19.2pt'><span lang=EN style='font-family:
"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'>For those of you who can't see the
video, here are the six questions asked by Barbara West, the KFTV anchor. I'm
not cherry picking here; these are the only questions she asked: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;line-height:19.2pt'><span lang=EN
style='font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#003366'>1) Aren’t
you embarrassed by the blatant attempts to register phony voters by ACORN, an
organization that Barack Obama has been tied to in the past?<br>
<br>
2) But in the past Senator Obama was a community organizer for ACORN, he was an
attorney for ACORN, and certainly in the Senate he was a benefactor for ACORN?<br>
<br>
3) Senator Obama now famously told Joe the Plumber he wanted to spread his
wealth around. A Gallup poll showed 84% of Americans prefer that government
focus on improving economic conditions and creating more jobs in the U.S. as
opposed to taking steps to spread wealth. Isn’t Senator Obama’s
comment a potentially crushing political blunder?<br>
<br>
4) You may recognize this famous quote: “from each according to his
abilities, to each according to his needs” That’s from Karl Marx.
How is Senator Obama not being a Marxist if he intends to spread the wealth
around?<br>
<br>
5) Now you recently said “Mark my works, it will not be six months before
the world tests Barack Obama.” But what worries many people is your
caveat asking them to stand with him because it is not going to be apparent
initially that he’s right. Are you forewarning Americans that nothing
will be done and that America’s days as the world’s leading power
are over?<br>
<br>
6) Getting back to the spreading the wealth question, what do you say to the
people who are concerned that Barack Obama will want to turn America into a
socialist country like Sweden?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:19.2pt'><span lang=EN style='font-family:
"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:19.2pt'><span lang=EN style='font-family:
"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'>That's it. That was the entire
interview. The woman was like a cartoonish caricature of a wingnut, and her
questions were straight out of a Steven Colbert interview. I kept waiting for
her to ask Biden when Obama stopped being a member of al Qaeda. At one point,
toward the middle of the interview, Biden actually had to stop and ask the
anchor--in all seriousness--if she was joking. I don't blame him. The questions
were so off the wall that he had to have been wondering whether this was some
sort of Daily Show-esque mock interview. <br>
<br>
And just in case you think this is an example of dumb local reporter trying to
be provocative (as opposed to mindlessly partisan), here's how the same anchor
began her hard-hitting <a href="http://www.wftv.com/video/17712615/index.html">interview</a>
of John McCain the week before:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;line-height:19.2pt'><span lang=EN
style='font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#003366'>Senator, in
dozens of states the group ACORN is accused of filing thousands of bogus voter
registrations. In Central Florida they even tried to register a Mickey Mouse
and one person here in Orange County was registered 21 times. Now Senator Obama
served ACORN and its associates as an attorney on voter registration and on
cases involving subprime mortgages, which led to our current financial crisis.
Now why haven’t you gone after him on these serious issues of voter
registration fraud and the mortgage crisis?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:19.2pt'><span lang=EN style='font-family:
"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:19.2pt'><span lang=EN style='font-family:
"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'>Now that's a hardball question.<br>
<br>
But now that you've seen the interview, let's revisit the right wing response
to that interview. Michelle Malkin describes it as the "best interview of
Joe Biden ever." She ends <a
href="http://michellemalkin.com/2008/10/25/best-interview-of-joe-biden-ever/">her
post</a> with this:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;line-height:19.2pt'><span lang=EN
style='font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#003366'>She was
completely professional and gracious.<br>
<br>
But remember: Anything less than total sycophancy from the Obamedia is
considered “combative.”<br>
<br>
Keep Barbara West in your thoughts and prayers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";
color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";
color:black'>Huh? Thoughts and prayers? I'll pray that she gets
help. And asking childishly partisan questions with glaringly false
premises is "completely professional"? Maybe if your profession is
Republican operative.<br>
<br>
In response to the interview, the Obama campaign (understandably) cancelled an
interview of Jill Biden scheduled on the same station next week. This provoked
the right wing blogs to lash out at the Obama campaign and accuse it of, among
other things, being cowardly and trying to suppress the freedom of the press
(here's a particularly <a
href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/10/botoxed-bidens.html">unhinged
example</a> of this sort of response).<br>
<br>
I know this goes without saying, but these are the very same people who have
spent the last few months defending the McCain campaign's policy of hiding
Sarah Palin from the mean scary press. I can only imagine the collective freak
out these folks would have if Palin had been similarly ambushed in an
interview. But since she doesn't do interviews, they don't have to worry about
that.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";
color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><a
href="http://www.anonymousliberal.com/2008/10/someone-wants-job-at-fox-news.html">http://www.anonymousliberal.com/2008/10/someone-wants-job-at-fox-news.html</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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