‘Gaffe-tastic Biden-ism’ – VP Joe Biden Tells CNN a Whopper about Bush, Fox News Says It’s a Lie
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on April 9, 2009
By Vicki McClure Davidson * Frugal Café Blog Zone
Good grief, who put the mic in front of the vice president’s face without any WH supervision? Was his “handler” off getting a chilled Diet Coke?
Here’s a snippet of the CNN interview, with VP Biden’s latest lacking-in-truth, foot-in-mouth yarn about him taking Bush down a peg:
“I remember President Bush saying to me one time in the Oval Office,” Biden told CNN, “‘Well, Joe,’ he said, ‘I’m a leader.’
And I said: ‘Mr. President, turn and around look behind you. No one is following.’”
That colorful Biden-Bush exchange never took place, according to numerous Bush aides who also dispute a similar assertion by Biden back in 2004, when the former senator from Delaware told scores of Democratic colleagues that he had challenged Bush’s moral certitude about the Iraq war during a private meeting in the Oval Office.
Two years later, Biden repeated his “tough guy” story about dressing down the president.
Gateway Pundit: Noted Liar Joe Biden Caught Lying About Bush and Karl Rove Calls Biden a Liar: “It’s a Habit He Ought to Drop.” (Video)
Fox News: Bush Aides Challenge Biden’s Boasts of Oval Office Slapdowns
Hot Air: Biden: Hey, did you know my plane was once fired on by Bosnian snipers?and Bush aides: Noted plagiarist/moron also a liar
GayPatriot: Biden Lies about Meetings with Bush; MSM Silent and MSM Ignores Biden’s Gaffes as it Ignored Palin’s Record (includes video of Newt Gingrich on media bias and the attacks on Sarah Palin)
The Obama administration say they stand by the VP’s comments, even though aides of former Pres. George W. Bush challenge the truth of it, wanting dates or memos or something other than Joe’s latest diarrhea of the mouth as proof of the story’s veracity.
There is no record of this “how big was it fish story” of Biden’s ever happening, so it can probably be chalked up to just another “Gaffe-tastic Biden-ism.”
In case you missed it last week, here’s a hilarious video that challenges liberal comedians who say that Pres. Obama’s administration is far too professional, too somber, too flawless to do any kind of comedic bits or jokes about (you’re kidding, right?), and a brilliant spoof of “Rain Man Joe Biden”. Up and coming comedian Steven Crowder is the acclaimed ‘man of the hour’ in my book. No one on late-night television (Letterman, O’Brien, Leno, et al) is making any effort to squeeze out the juicy comedic goodness that Biden offers with regularity, except Crowder.
Check out this post with myriad links to Joe “Walking Gaffe Machine” Biden’s screw ups over the years: Vice Pres. Joe ‘Gaffe Machine’ Biden: Steven Crowder’s Comedic ‘Rain Man’
Fox News is not ignoring or laughing off (Fox News rocks!) VP Biden’s latest boast/lie/fabrication (where are all the other news organizations? If VP Dick Cheney had told such a ridiculous lie to CNN, they’ be snarling and frothing all over it it like abused pit bulls on a Michael Vick chew toy).
Here’s a portion of insiders’ evaluation of this current whopper and other fibs from “Wacky Joe” (remember, he’s just a heartbeat away from the presidency):
“I never recall Biden saying any of that,” former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer said after reviewing detailed notes of Bush’s White House meetings with Biden, which include numerous direct quotes from Biden. “I find it odd that he said he met with him alone all the time. I don’t think that’s true.”
Fleischer said that whenever Bush met with Sen. Biden, the meeting also included a congressional counterpart so as to not “antagonize” the House.
Karl Rove, former White House political adviser, also was skeptical of Biden’s claim to have spent “a lot of hours alone” with Bush.
“I remember checking on such a Biden exaggeration while at the White House and no one witnessed the meeting and his comments in remotely the same way,” Rove said.
Candida P. Wolff, Bush’s White House liaison to Capitol Hill, said the only meetings she remembered between Bush and Biden also included other lawmakers. She said such meetings were held in the Cabinet Room or the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, not the Oval Office, and certainly did not last for “hours.”
“The president would never sit through two hours of Joe Biden,” Wolff said. “I don’t ever remember Biden being in the Oval. He was such a blowhard on all that stuff – there wasn’t a reason to bring him in.”
Andy Card, former White House chief of staff, reviewed the two Biden claims and said: “This does not ring true to me. I doubt that it happened.”
A spokesman for Bush declined comment, although a person close to the former president said Bush does not remember either episode.
This is not the first time the veracity of Biden’s assertions has been challenged. In 1988, he dropped out of the presidential race after being accused of plagiarizing British Labor Party leader Neil Kinnock. The Washington Post also cited “the senator’s boastful exaggerations of his academic record.”
Last year, liberal Slate magazine recalled that “Biden’s misdeeds encompassed numerous self-aggrandizing thefts, misstatements, and exaggerations that seemed to point to a serious character defect.”
Also last year, Biden came under fire for telling a questionable story about being “shot at” in Iraq.
“Let’s start telling the truth,” Biden said during a presidential primary debate sponsored by YouTube in July. “Number one, you take all the troops out — you better have helicopters ready to take those 3,000 civilians inside the Green Zone, where I have been seven times and shot at. You better make sure you have protection for them, or let them die.”
But when questioned about the episode afterward by the Hill newspaper, Biden backpedaled from his claim of being “shot at” and instead allowed: “I was near where a shot landed.”
Also check out this post from last month by Michelle Malkin about Joe: Audio comedy gold: Bozo the Vice President is looking out for you
Tim Slagle, Big Hollywood: Letterman = Uncool and Late Night Wimps Still Won’t Mock Obama
SteveMaloneyGOP: Joe Biden: Chronic Liar, Windbag
Right Voices, Politico: Biden Suddenly Worried That Expectations for Messiah Might Be Too High
Ned Rice, Big Hollywood: Questioning Joe Biden’s ‘Corny’ Patriotism
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