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Joe Biden, in just today's news:

Really wrong on the great depression:

“When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed,” Biden told Couric. “He said, 'Look, here's what happened.'”

Reason magazine has this very solid comment: “And if you owned an experimental TV set in 1929, you would have seen him. And you would have said to yourself, 'Who is that guy? What happened to President Hoover?'”

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Called his own ad terrible:

He's as right here as he was wrong with his depression comment. The ad was idiotic–he says he didn't know about it. But listen to him try and stop himself when he starts to claim he doesn't think Barack knew about it either (of course, Barack specifically said he approved it, during the commercial.)

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Flip flopped on the AIG bailout:

Obama attacked McCain for doing the exact same thing Biden did.

Lauer asks: “But it's the kind of thing that drives people crazy about politics. It sounds like you were trying to score some political points against John McCain using his words, when your own running mate had used very similar words.”

Then Obama used one of his patented Obama® brand tactics when he's trapped in a corner.

1) Interrupt by saying “hold on” or “wait a minute” as if you must stop the ongoing question –because it simply cannot go on without your input.

2) As soon as the interviewer stops-start loosely related talking point and entirely ignore the actual question.

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Said no to clean coal-oops, that's not the ticket's position:

If you think Biden is just being honest-like Sarah Palin's consistent stand on drilling in ANWR despite McCain's silly insistence not to-you're wrong. Biden opposed clean coal in the primary, but the campaign came out to clarify that Biden does believe in clean coal now. “Senator McCain knows that Senator Obama and Senator Biden support clean coal technology.” Except when he says the exact opposite.

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With all of this in ONE DAY of news, I'm left in two questions:

1) Can you imagine if Sarah Palin had a disastrous day like this? She would be massacred by the media.

2) When do we hear the speech from Obama that “this is not the Joe Biden I thought I knew. Anyone have Hillary's phone number?”

We talk a lot about the dummy vote, those people whose votes are based on things that make them feel good. Here's one of them in action:

“Honestly, I don't know what to do. I really don't want to vote for McCain. You can tell he only cares about rich people. Sarah Palin wears glasses that cost $300. McCain's wife wears Gucci clothes. Which means they don't know anything about people like me.” Into that stew of assumptions, she adds: “I hear that Obama's a Muslim. If he is a Muslim, that would be a problem, because the terrorists already attacked us.”

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According to Time, it's people like these that “may well determine the outcome of the election.”

Some would say that's scary, I think it's a relief. The election will probably rest on the shoulders of people like that. It's hard to believe it's worth the bother of getting all fired up about everything. Do your best to make your family, friends, and self happy–that's hard enough.

The CEO of NBC has admitted that Keith Olbermann's show is an opinion show!

“For most of its day [MSNBC] is the rest of the front section of the newspaper and then brings an editorial point of view from its editorial page at 8 o'clock at night,” NBC CEO Jeff Zucker said.

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Now, if Keith will just admit it.

By the way, remember when Keith said this?

“If at this late date, any television network had, of its own accord, shown that much video tape and that much graphic video tape of 9/11…it, we, would be rightly eviscerated at all quarters, perhaps by the Republican Party itself, for exploiting the memories of the dead, and perhaps even for trying to evoke that pain again. If you reacted to that video tape the way I did, I apologize. It is a subject of great pain, for many of us still, and it was probably not appropriate to be shown.”

Less than a week later, his own network showed constant 9-11 footage for the anniversary. So, I tuned in that night to see Keith really rip them a new one. Unfortunately, he had been pre-empted for “as it happened” coverage of 9-11, featuring essentially unedited footage of all the events in real time.

I assume he had to move his criticism to the next night, which I missed. If someone out there has the transcript of his twelve minute special comment about his own network, can you send it my way? Thanks!