Remember when former Vice President Dan Quayle was ridiculed so brutally by the media for misspelling potato, for daring to criticize the TV show Murphy Brown for glorifying unwed mothers, and for a number of Yogi Berra-like utterances? They completely marginalized a decent, intelligent public servant because they wanted to, but Joe Biden, a virtual gaffe machine, continues to get a media pass in spite of a never-ending list of verbal and intellectual blunders.
Well, here's a small sampling of Biden's articulate eloquence gathered from the Fox News website (where else could you find them?).
On Inauguration Day, Jan. 20 2009, Biden misspoke when he told a cheering crowd of supporters, "Jill and I had the great honor of standing on that stage, looking across at one of the great justices, Justice Stewart." Justice John Paul Stevens -- not Stewart -- swore Biden in as vice president.
When criticizing former GOP nominee John McCain in Athens, Ohio, on Oct. 15, 2008, Biden said, "Look, John's last-minute economic plan does nothing to tackle the number-one job facing the middle class, and it happens to be, as Barack says, a three-letter word: jobs. J-O-B-S, jobs."
In a Sept. 22, 2008, CBS interview, Biden misspoke when he said Franklin D. Roosevelt was president when the stock market crashed in 1929.
"When the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the, you know, the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened," he said. Herbert Hoover -- not Roosevelt -- was president in 1929, and television had not yet been invented in 1929.
- Biden mistakenly referred to Alaska governor Sarah Palin as the "lieutenant governor" of her state during a town hall meeting on Sept. 4, 2008 at George Mason University in Manassas, Va.
"I heard a very, by the way I mean this sincerely, a very strong and a very good political speech from a lieutenant governor of Alaska who I think is going to be very formidable, very formidable not only in the campaign but in the debate," Biden said.
During his first campaign rally with Obama as his vice presidential running mate on Aug. 23, 2008, Biden introduced Obama by saying, "A man I'm proud to call my friend. A man who will be the next President of the United States -- Barack America!"
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It's not just his mangling of syntax or his penchant for the misspoken phrase that sets Biden apart; he also seems unable to understand that some things need not be shared with his friends in the media. This recent headline cannot be true, can it?
Biden Reportedly Reveals Location Of "Secret" Vice Presidential Bunker
It is true. He did that at the recent Gridiron Club dinner where it was overheard by a Newsweek contributing editor, who felt it was her responsibility to tell the whole world.
