Media Double Standard Alive and Well

If Sarah Palin had made even a few of the dozen or so overt misstatements that Joe Biden made in the VP debate the media would be calling for her to be removed from the GOP ticket. Joe, of course gets a “pass” by the media.

It is hard to believe that someone that has been Washington for so long, and on the Foreign Relations Committee for years, could be so constantly wrong with the facts. I almost fell out of my chair when he started talking about Israel and the surrounding area. He must of made six statements in about 60 seconds that were not just incorrect, but way incorrect.

Sarah Palin didn’t have enough time or background knowledge to call him on all of it. I'm certainly not going to make Governor Palin out to be some foreign policy expert, but she did seem more comfortable than Biden in talking about Pakistan and Afghanistan. You knew that she really hit her stride when she asked Ms. Ifill if they could go back and talk more about Afghanistan. Biden gave the impression as having more depth, but what good is that if the specifics of that “depth” are factually incorrect. Unfortunately I fear the uninformed majority in this country don’t know enough to understand that he is spouting nonsense.

McCain was castigated because he briefly misspoke about Iran helping Al Qadea (which actually turned out to be true as part of Iran’s destabilization strategy, but was not what McCain meant). But when Biden couldn’t keep Hamas and Hezbollah straight or makes up history about Lebanon the mainsteam media is silent.

The above points to Biden's inadvertent misstatements, and does not include the out and out falsehoods or misrepresentations that are standard talking points in the Obama/Biden stump speech such as: McCain wants to give the oil companies another $4B in tax breaks; Obama never said he would meet with Ahmadinejad (you can watch the primary debate where he said exactly this on http://www.youtube.com/ - he as only compounded the problem since by first trying to explain it and then trying to deny it).

Perhaps the most stupid but factual statement that Biden made during the debate was accusing that McCain’s tax credit for families to buy their own health insurance would “go straight to the insurance companies”. Scandalous! Duh, its money to buy insurance!