Biden to Florida Reporter: ‘Are You Joking?’
During an interview with Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden, Orlando's WFTV news anchor Barbara West came right out with some familiar-sounding questions: Is Barack Obama ashamed of his close ties to ACORN? Isn't Barack Obama kind of just like Karl Marx? Where could West have gotten these ideas?During an interview with Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden, Orlando’s WFTV news anchor Barbara West came right out with some familiar-sounding questions: Is Barack Obama ashamed of his close ties to ACORN? Isn’t Barack Obama kind of just like Karl Marx? Where could West have gotten these ideas?
ABC’s Jack Tapper has helpfully listed West’s questions here. Also, as The Huffington Post points out, West’s recent interview with Sen. John McCain was a bit different.
Meanwhile, Fox News is reporting on the incident as though West’s “tough questions” sent Biden and his crew running angrily for the hills.
YouTube:
TRUTHDIG’S JOURNALISM REMAINS CLEARThe storytellers of chaos tried to manipulate the political and media narrative in 2025, but independent journalism exposed what they tried to hide. When you read Truthdig, you see through the illusion.
Support Independent Journalism.
As Obama must know, the role of social movements and many activists is to "speak truth to power,” to chant “more, more, more,” and not to stop until the job is done.
A bizarre provision of the House Republicans' short-term budget bill would strip ACORN of all federal funds even though 1) the government already withdrew all federal money from the organization and 2) the group no longer exists.
A look at the day's political happenings, including President Obama's response to the GOP's latest "fiscal cliff" offer, Sarah Palin's apology on Fox News and a "Simpsons" character explains the fiscal cliff.
In "Reckless Endangerment," Gretchen Morgenson and Joshua Rosner argue that cozy connections between government and the financial industry were the primary cause of the financial crisis.
Is NPR the next Acorn? The public radio powerhouse is apparently the latest target of conservative rabble-rousers such as James O'Keefe, the undercover right-winger whose Acorn sting spelled major trouble for that institution, and Wednesday, NPR's CEO Vivian Schiller took the fall.
After reviewing the infamous video footage taken of right-wing activists James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles purportedly posing as pimp and prostitute, respectively, and talking to employees of the now-disbanded organization ACORN, California Attorney General Jerry Brown (continued) .
You need to be a supporter to comment.
There are currently no responses to this article.
Be the first to respond.