As David Keene points out, Obama isn't the only one on the liberal
ticket getting a pass while the mainstream media snuffles the ground
in search of something sordid to pin on Sarah Palin:
One wonders whether the media will focus as sharp a light on
allegations involving her vice presidential opponent from Delaware.
Joe Biden has been around for a long time, and as a senior senator
most assume that he has already been thoroughly "vetted," but few
remember that he was forced to drop out of his first presidential race
when it was discovered that he plagiarized a part of his biography.
And last week, his hometown paper reported that the tragic
collision that took the life of his wife and daughter shortly after
his election to the Senate in 1972 was not, as he's told audiences for
years, the result of an encounter with a drunk and out-of-control
driver. Tragic as it was, it turns out it was simply an accident.
According to Delaware authorities, no ticket was issued and there was
no evidence of any wrongdoing whatsoever. Yet Biden has spent decades
maligning the driver of the truck that broadsided his wife's car —
apparently because it makes for a better story and elicits even more
sympathy from audiences who hear it.
Biden's friends have responded to these reports by suggesting that
it is insensitive and unfair to dig up such information about a
tragedy that took place 35 years ago, but his characterization of what
happened continues to this day.
Add to this that he had to take a law school class over after
being flunked for plagiarizing and later claimed to have finished near
the top of his graduating class when he had, in fact, finished 76th in
a class of 85. And that it was discovered that one of the more moving
speeches he gave while running for the Senate was stolen virtually in
its entirety from one delivered earlier by the late Bobby Kennedy.
Together, these incidents comprise what might accurately be called a
disturbing pattern of behavior spanning decades.
Sen. Biden's friends in the media like to talk about how smart he
is when perhaps they should be asking whether he is capable of
separating fact from fiction.
Fact? Fiction? As far as the national media is concerned, the only
meaningful dichotomy is Us and Them.
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