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Joe Biden Schools Right Wing Ambush Journo On Rape Comments: ‘Don’t Screw Around With Me’

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During an appearance on a panel at the University of Pennsylvania on Tuesday, Vice President Joe Biden defended President Obama‘s Jobs Act by explaining that the money injected into the economy would be used to increase police and teacher forces across the country, among other jobs. According to The Daily Pennsylvanian, Biden said that temporary cuts in police and education staffing aren’t something to be taken lightly:

“It’s not temporary when that 911 call comes in and the woman is being raped and the cop shows up in time to prevent the rape,” Biden said. “It’s not temporary to the guy whose store is being held up and there’s a gun pointed to his head, and the cop shows up and he is not killed.”

Predictably, Biden caught some backlash for the comment. The London Telegraph’s Tim Stanley said that this latest gaffe should be the impetus for replacing Biden with Hillary Clinton on the 2012 ticket. “There’s a case for saying that Biden brings Irish toughness to a White House that often seems effete,” Stanley wrote. “But he has also contributed to its image of incompetence.”

Undeterred, Biden went to Flint, Michigan, and brought up the rape statistics again, drawing a correlation between the dwindling number of police officers and the rising murder and rape rates, using statistics given to him by the Flint police department:

In 2008, when Flint had 265 sworn officers on their police force, there were 35 murders and 91 rapes in this city. In 2010, when Flint had only 144 police officers, the murder rate climbed to 65 and rapes, just to pick two categories, climbed to 229. In 2011, you now only have 125 shields. God only knows what the numbers’ll be this year for Flint if we don’t rectify it.”

After his talk, Biden was asked to pose for a picture with what appeared to be a fan. It turned out that the “fan” was ambusher Jason Mattera, who turned on the Vice President and launched into a line of questioning about Biden’s use of the “rape” term in his speech before being launched into a wall by his handlers:

Mattera has been told to “get a life” by a member of Congress and even caused Bill O’Reilly to come to Al Franken‘s defense. Our own Tommy Christopher has a running feud with him.

Still, no matter which way you lean, there are two things that stick out here:

1. Biden’s comments aren’t really that big of a gaffe. Yes, he does put his foot in his mouth fairly often, but the points that he made weren’t that crazy. He was basically showing that as you cut police, crime goes up. Murder and rape are two issues that lead many crime reports. Biden has to make as compelling a case as possible to gain support for the job bill, and bringing up two harrowing sets of numbers helps the cause.

2. Jason Mattera’s ambush interviews don’t work if he gets schooled by the person asking him questions. In the Al Franken ambush, he didn’t let Franken answer, so he essentially shot himself in the foot. Here, he lets Biden answer and gets shut down by the statistics being thrown in his face. It’s not that the idea of the ambush interview is bad, and Mattera has to be at least given credit for getting close enough to these politicians to be able to ask the questions in the first place, but these things don’t work if you’re just going to make the subject look better when it’s through.

Enjoy the video of the confrontation — and the ensuing discussion — courtesy of CNN:

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  • Anonymous

    Why do the majority of MSM, like Mediaite writers add “right wing” or “conservative” but never do the same thing with Liberals or Leftists?

  • Anonymous

    Biden needs to hop on a train to his psychiatist . He’s  a guy who remained a Senator for 36 years and managed to get on the wrong side of everything , and yet he rants incoherently and angrily when challenged .
    A gladhander , windbag and fool , chosen by Obama for a job he should never have had , ( that’s what Obama does -the worst possible choice ? Come aboard ! ) .

    He’ll become even more unhinged as his reelection chances disappear even further in the mist .

  • Anonymous

    So, just wondering, what’s to blame for all the rapes that did happen when with all those cops?  If he’s only advocating for just a few more cops, does that make him pro-rape?

  • Anonymous

    Well one thing for sure there are a lot of rapes at “LEFTISTS LEFT WING” OWS camps….see if that is what Mediaite does…they add “right wing” and “Conservative” but never do the same for Leftists groups and politicians.

  • Anonymous

    Memdiaite supports fear mongering by the POTUS and VPOTUS?  really?  Biden is a gaffemaster and Obama’s is a divider and is ruining this country….but hey, that is all OK with mediaite.

    This is an “ambush” guy, but Palin’s predetaor, the pedophile creep, doesn’t get this kind of headline.

    Again, thanks for my morning laugh.

  • Anonymous

    Notice that when Nando was writing about OWS…he never tagged them as “LEFT WING” or “LEFTISTS”?

    why is that Nando?

  • Anonymous

    The alleged “jobs” bill funds the union jobs for one year . Then what ?

    Won’t matter . Obama will get back his cut of their union dues immediately as donations . After a year , he won’t need it .

  • Moderate

    The media see the Left Wing Extremists as being middle of the road.

  • RSI

    I don’t remember crime being astronomically high when we had a balanced budget under a clinton. It’s ludicrous to suggest that unless we don’t increase deficit spending by another couple billion rape and murder will go up, such scare tactics.

  • Fist Yourself

    Drinking so early Nando?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XEFRKNJR6WJ5WQ6KNPH2OEY2LU Antonio

    Why do “right wing” or “conservative” people ask stupid questions that have nothing to do with the issue at hand?

  • Michelle

    Nando, you’ll fit right in with the liberal lapdogs here at Mediaite.  Your jounOlism piece is a joke.  Those weren’t his only comments.  He actually wished for his opponents to be raped to know what it feels like.  If you can’t find something wrong with that, then that’s pretty sad. 

    And in you ever care to do any actual journalism, how about asking The One, if he’s so worried about police and teachers keeping their jobs, why was the first stimulus NOT used for that, but instead to pad their outrageous pensions?  Seriously, it’s no wonder no one has any use for the media anymore. 

  • Anonymous

    Where is your story about DOE getting caught red-handed altering the historic record on the whole Solyndra scandal?  Just more coveruping by the mainstream media.  Honestly….get a clue and report on Solyndra and stop making yourselves look foolish by covering it up and making excuses.

  • Anonymous

    I’ve come to the conclusion, whenever something bad happens, liberal is just implied because the reporters are so supportive of these groups.  Serial flasher?  Yeah, at the liberal OWS.  Rapist?  At the OWS.  Felon with rifle?  OWS.  Retard(Joe Biden)?  Vice President.  I think it’s implied.

  • Guyoxim

    They do that to identify the crazy person. Not the difference in meaning between these two sentences:

    A person walked down the street.

    A crazy person walked down the street. 

    See the difference? They’re just helping us, the readers, determine who is the idiot here, cause a lot of conservatives are stupid, being afraid of all that book learnin’ and science and such!

  • Lenny

    Where do you get your facts? There are a lot of rapes at OWS camps? I have heard of one reported incidence which is currently being investigated. Clearly, one rape is too many but that doesnt mean you condemn a movement–.Why is the Tea Party so against OWS?

  • But Im Not Wrong

    Since conservatives hate women and keep trying to change rape laws im surprised this is even an issue for them.

  • Guyoxim

    Slow down. You’re skipping words again. And asking stupid questions. Get a grip, and a 4th grade education Then come back and try your hand at 

  • Hugo Daun

    Human Events, hehehe…

  • Anonymous

    Facts are easy: rapes happen when cops are on the job.  Yes, cops are good, but as the old saying goes: when seconds count, cops are minutes away.  The comparison is flawed and anyone who has two brain cells to rub together knows it.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XEFRKNJR6WJ5WQ6KNPH2OEY2LU Antonio

    The Right is again on the wrong side of a very important issue and you guys are doing your best to carry as much water as you can.

    Most of America doesn’t come to Mediaite so all of your efforts will be for not.

    At the end of the day it will come off just as it is: Right wing obstructionism at the cost of Average Americans.

  • Anonymous

    I remember the Mattera confrontation with Franken. It was obvious he didn’t want to listen and hear an alternative view or any facts that supported it. His goal was only to try and make Franken look bad, and instead Al made it clear that Mattra wasn’t a journalist and wasn’t interested in hearing anything.

  • Sharpo

    why can’t guyoxim finish his sentences ?

    what else is guyoxim doing while he types ?

    why is guyoxim a pooseyboy hidibg behind anoymous names on the internet ?

    whoislloydc@gmail.com

  • force_recon

    Joe Biden is laughable.  “Stand Up Chuck”.  Who can forget that one?  He and the “Campaigner In Chief” along with their cronies have destroyed the country.  Why isn’t anyone covering the real stories…Fast & Furious, Solyndra, etc?  Just another example of the media toting the water so Obama can get re-elected.

  • Bobrick37

    Schooled”?

    Mattera exposed the crass, purely political exploitation of Biden.

    Even if the stats are true, why is taking officers off the street the first CANARD they throw out?

    Why not ask for 5% toward their Health Premiums instead? – or move monies from liberal pet projects, like bankrupt solar companies.

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    Why doesn’t VP Biden just start calling everyone who disagrees with his policy prescriptions “rapists.”

    There’s another term – like racism – that Democrats will by the end of campaign season render utterly meaningless.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XEFRKNJR6WJ5WQ6KNPH2OEY2LU Antonio

    Are you really that stupid?

    President Obama is projected to raise $1,000,000,000.  Do you think all or most or even a quarter of that is coming from union pacs?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NWVKX2P2QBPQ6FHQHCHVIC2ALQ Fedup in Florida

    What is the issue at hand?  Is it municipal governments have over spent on unions and retirement programs? Is maybe that the issue, that they allow public employees to retire in their 40′s with up to 80% of their salaries based on their last few years of employment during which they were allowed to clock untold overtime to jack up that pension?  Now they want the federal government to borrow money to just keep funding the insanity instead of dealing with the real underlying problem that has put them into a position that they have to lay off vital services….  Is that not the issue at hand, or are these just more stupid questions?

  • Anonymous

    really good point!   I thought it was strange too, as though liberals reporters wouldn’t ask Biden why he wants to scare people about rape to pass a lousy bill.  

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XEFRKNJR6WJ5WQ6KNPH2OEY2LU Antonio

    Wow, you make the armed forces look bad. Or typical whichever way you look at it.

  • Anonymous

    If Obama was smart, he’d use Biden for this cheap stuff, and keep himself out of the ugly class warfare, ‘scare seniors and ugly tactics.  Instead, both the VP and Pres do it!  Honestly, Team Obama will lose to anyone on the republican ticket because the independent voters are being completely turned off.  

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_TNIIHAE5G3O5HMBOZFAZZWK3YY aa

    This Rag is a hoot.  Biden is an Ignorant Jack Ass.  He proves each and every time he opens his bombastic arrogant Pie-Hole and this Rag is right there with him….LOL !!

  • Michelle

    Antonio, if the left cared so much, but was the first stimulus used to pad their pensions and NOT to keep teachers and police employeed? 

  • Fist Yourself

    So Mattera is no different than Nando or Tommy.

  • Ralph-NY

    “the woman is being raped and the cop shows up in time to prevent the rape” This line makes no sense in any way. How do the cops prevent a rape thats already happened.

  • Anonymous

    There’s a little more than that http://www.verumserum.com/?p=30928  Yes, conservative website, but it has a full rundown of stories about assaults at the OWS camps.  And we’re against it because they’re morons.  Have you see their list of demands?  Q.E.D.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_B5344MYI6BXUL36ADKK3JBTPJA GJPinks

    They don’t

  • Anonymous

    To try and make a name for them self. This is real ambush reporting.Not the  gotcha questioning as Palin would say. Tough stuff Like “What kind of newspapers do you read?”

  • Anonymous

    There’s never been a President who repeatedly demeans the other party , calling them stupid and UnAmerican . Most Presidents are leaders of the country . Not this guy . Mocking , jeering and insulting , calling people enemies . Obama is even more unhinged the Biden and Peolsi , Waters, Frank , Jackson-Lee , etc.

  • Anonymous

    There’s never been a President who repeatedly demeans the other party , calling them stupid and UnAmerican . Most Presidents are leaders of the country . Not this guy . Mocking , jeering and insulting , calling people enemies . Obama is even more unhinged the Biden and Peolsi , Waters, Frank , Jackson-Lee , etc.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_B5344MYI6BXUL36ADKK3JBTPJA GJPinks

    Schooled? only in reference to our failing public schools that are the worst in the developed world.
    And Flint Michigan? Is that the Flint Michigan run by Democratics for the last 4 decades?

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    Explain, O-bot.

    Humor us with details.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NWVKX2P2QBPQ6FHQHCHVIC2ALQ Fedup in Florida

    Most assuredly!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NWVKX2P2QBPQ6FHQHCHVIC2ALQ Fedup in Florida

    Most assuredly!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_B5344MYI6BXUL36ADKK3JBTPJA GJPinks

    And you make all people with names that end in a vowel look unbelievably stupid.

  • Anonymous

    Stopping one in progress?

  • Anonymous

    I looked through all the far right websites I know of, but I just couldn’t find anything about Biden wishing for republicans to be raped. Any chance you could put up a link to that?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XEFRKNJR6WJ5WQ6KNPH2OEY2LU Antonio

    So the Federal government gave money to states and then the states (even the Repub ran states) decided to ….”pad their pensions and NOT to keep teachers and police employed?”

    I really don’t understand your point.
    Can you explain it to me?

  • Anonymous

    If if Dick Chenney made the same remark I’m guessing your would just be full of praise.

  • Anonymous

    Nice post there genius. Maybe you should be more concerned about your own ability to complete a sentence.

  • Guyoxim

    Hidibg behind anoymous names? You mean like “Sharpo”? And what the hell is “anoymous anyway?? Talk about a pooseyboy, you’re the one acting like a tough guy from the safety of the internet! And at least Guyoxim can spell “anonymous” and “hiding”. You just proved my point with your ignorance and childish name calling.

    Oh, and to answer your question, lloydc is a coward, thats who!

  • Anonymous

    You’re about as moderate as John Birch.

  • Exgoper

    I guess Republicans would feel more comfortable with a vice president who shoots his friends in the face.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XEFRKNJR6WJ5WQ6KNPH2OEY2LU Antonio
  • Anonymous

    Someone is up to their old tricks again giving out “likes” to messages I disagree with. Right wing stupid childish dirty tricks.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1405004314 Cindi Tracy Aune

    Clintons crime bill funded 100,000 additional cops and still we had a balance budget, even a surplus that Bush proceeded to give back in tax cuts.
    Follow the logic and I bet you could come to the sane conclusion….go back to Clinton era tax rates and we’d all, or 99% of us at least, would be in much better shape.

  • Anonymous

    it looks like biden has some serious mental issues.

  • Shoedoctor

    I guess the reporter forgot to mention that Biden wished that he wished Republicans knew what it was like to have a gun pointed at them. I can’t imagine why they left that part out of the story

  • Guyoxim

    No, the good lieutenant isn’t in the military and never has been. He’s a poser sitting at home collecting his socialist disability checks.

  • TruDat

    Biden is a boob.  You can’t even trust his hairline.

  • Anonymous

    The take-away is that Joey Biden has thin skin…and we’re getting to him. OBAMO, too.

    Both will be politically bludgeoned in the next year.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XEFRKNJR6WJ5WQ6KNPH2OEY2LU Antonio

    Over spent on unions?

    Why don’t you tell us by how much and then tell us what would be a more appropriate number for the government to spend on public sector union workers.

    So all union workers can retire in their 40′s and have 80% of their salaries?  If that is the case (which of course it isn’t) what amount should they be able to get in retirement and what age should they be “allowed” to retire?

    I’m like you – I hate public sector union workers and I love corporate CEO’s.  I hate union workers because their boss is the government and they have gotten a really good deal out of the government and instead they should get a crappy deal form private sector bosses.

    I feel your pain – teachers and not tax cuts for the wealthy is really hurting our genearl economy.

    Yeah, and its the public sector union that destroyed the world economy and not the people on Wall Street.

    Austerity, austerity, public union austerity.

    Wallstreet – not so much.

  • Anonymous

    I think Biden has a couple of ingrown plugs that are affecting his brain!

  • Randy

    Don’t buy the premise that it is a stupid question. It was a stupid statement by Biden. Even the content of the statement – I have not heard of many cases where the rapist let the victim take a time out to call the police so that the police can get there in time to prevent it. Unfortunately the police work comes after the fact.  But in the Democrat & Biden say it and it becomes so world I guess this statement is a good argument for passage of the tax increase/class-warfare-foder-for-campaign-bill being pushed by Obama. One thing for sure – it must be hard to constantley try to make an argument to defend some of the idiotic things that come out of Bidens mouth. You can almost hear Liberals groan nationwide everytime Biden opens his mouth. No wonder he thought plagarizing (he was caught in past – look it up)  was a good idea – see what happens when he uses his own words. 

  • Valkyrie101

    Well yea, that is the republican strategy, we know. But the people are getting tired of it.

  • Anonymous

    Look at the independents voters on any poll.  Dropping and dropping.  Forget about saving the presidency, you really have to try to prevent congress as well.   Here’s what every ad will include, Reid saying private sector jobs are fine, we have to save public sector jobs

    http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=46973

    points to Reid on honesty if not for incredible stupidity.

  • Anonymous

    Another stupid republican fake journalist get’s schooled. Did any of these loons go to college?

  • Bobrick37

    It means that the economic incest going on between the public unions and Democratic Party is more important to them than putting the massive unemployed back to work!

  • Norbit

    This needs to be said again:                        

    Schooled”?                      Mattera exposed the crass, purely political exploitation of Biden.                          Even if the stats are true, why is taking officers off the street the first CANARD they throw out?                     Why not ask for 5% toward their Health Premiums instead? – or move monies from liberal pet projects, like bankrupt solar companies.

  • Lenny

    Disgrace of any attacks–but sadly you always get a few asses in every crowd-Tea Party included.
    I agree I think there must be a more focused voice. Thats what happens with many movements..There is a bit of scatter and not enough focus. The Tea Party was a movement against the establishment–so is OWS..Just surprised at the venom spewed out by the same people who had a movement the year before.

  • Michelle

    Wait, are you saying you don’t “like” my comments!!  I’m crushed!

  • Michelle

    Let me break it down for you.  They took the money they were supposedly so desperate for to keep teachers and police employeed and instead padded the outrageous pensions and then demanded more saying if they didn’t get it, we are responsible for the rapes and murders that will follow.  Thoughts?

  • Chayal Boded

    Hey, Mattera likes poking fun at the knuckleheads. It’s hilarious. Haven’t seen his videos? Ought to have a look. He only goes after the seriously deranged politco scumbags–such as joe bite-me.

  • Midwesterner

    No one, not even this reporter I think, is questioning that Biden/Obama want this bill to pass – the issue this reporter is trying to shed light on are the tactics that Biden uses to demonize the opposition.  Biden and Obama have absolutely brought change to our country – Alinsky tactics are now part of mainstream politics and as such we have a huge moral divide among our politicians – in a nutshell they’ve brought us to a really low level.  The good news is that Biden’s mouth and Obama’s rhetoric are helping to enlighten the electorate – people are getting smarter because of these 2 jerk-offs – that is bad news – they were elected because independent voters suspended logic to elect them – Biden is forcing independents in probably a very painful way that he and Obama really should never have been put into this position – their policies and the results of those policies will only shed so much light – in our media-enriched society its these types of comments that will seal their fate and hammer home that they really are not very good people.

  • Chayal Boded

    What people? Oh yeah, youse LLL like to think you speak for everybody, but in REALITY you only bleat for yourselves. Try being and real American for a change and man up. You don’t have to be a LLL your whole life.

  • Anonymous

    “Schooled”? Did you watch Plugs make a idiot out of himself? Did you go to college? Let me guess, you are unemployed and have been hanging out on the streets with ows for a couple weeks? Because we certainly did not watch the same clip.

  • Michelle

    I can’t take credit for this, but thought it was a great comment:

    The very first question at the next Solyndra hearing should be, “How
    many rapes could Democrats have prevented by giving that $535 million to
    cops instead?”

    Thought Libbies?

  • Anonymous

    Thanks for your question.  The reason is that the majority of the MSM is owned and operated by huge corporations – they are not liberal. 

    The top 6 MSM corporations made over $125,000,000,000 in 2009 – that is your ‘liberal media.’  See for yourself http://www.freepress.net/ownership/chart/main

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    If that fantasy comforts you, then by all means continue it.

  • Anonymous

    It’s always the teachers, policemen, firemen and grandma that gets cut off first…it makes for a BIGGER fear factor. Sad thing is the people who vote Democrat buy into this BS hook line and sinker everytime…hell they will even run around repeating their talking points!!
    You will never hear about cutting liberal pork as an alternative.

  • Anonymous

    The same reason that right wing or conservative crusaders label themselves that…watch the O’Reilly interview asshat, he calls himself a conservative activist.

  • Sharpo

    LOLZ guyoxim LOLZ LOLZ LOLZ LOLZ FAILBOAT

    you lie because you think you have freedom of speechpeople didn’t die to create america so you could lie for your own selfish goals. :P
    ( congrats for finishiing your sentences, pooseyboy )

    whoislloydc@gmail.com

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    Dick Cheney would never have defended a piece of legislation of Bush’s by suggesting that there would be more rape in the country if it wasn’t passed, and by extension that those opposing its passage were supporting an increase in rape.

    In other words, Biden’s a dummie who talks first and thinks later. Cheney, for all his faults, wasn’t.

  • Anonymous

    Everyone look at Plugs and ask yourself if you want him in charge of your health care!

  • TPRTR

    Biden gets a legitimate question and its called “ambush journalism? Only in the eyes of left wing hack reporters. Do you think it would bee called “ambush” if Dick Cheney would have said as totally ridiculous as what that buffoon Biden said? Mediaite is nothing but ant-fox/conservative propaganda.

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    If the woman was allowed to pack heat without the Democrat party trying to throw her in prison for it, she wouldn’t have to keep being raped while hoping a cop shows up in time to stop it.

    Just sayin.

  • Anonymous

    John Birch was shot by communist forces in China. What do you know about how “moderate” he was or wasn’t?

  • http://twitter.com/lizbuddie Liz Buddie

    Asking a pol, the VP, about his comments, if he stands by them, giving him an opportunity to expand on them, is an “ambush?” Biden hardly “schooled” anybody. He responded, and not particularly well, at that. (To the contrary, Biden fails to see the inevitable logical and strategic box he’s created for himself and the Obama administration. But that’s another matter.) Clearly Mediaite’s beef with Mattera is causing you difficulty with just reporting the facts. (Or is it an underlying lack of perspective on Obama/Biden?) It also apparently makes Mediaite blind to logical and factual problems with the VP’s statements. Even such basic truisms of logic like ‘correlation doesn’t equal causation,’ are lost on Mediaite in this case? Mediaite can’t see around the corner? Isn’t interested in looking at the wisdom or potential of this jobs bill strategy? There were plenty of media/politics angles on which you could have focused this piece, but Mediaite goes with ‘journo “ambushes” pol by asking him a question’ (GASP!) and ‘the VP is “predictably” criticized for saying something a lot of people think was stupid to say’ (double-GASP!!)?

    If you guys at Mediaite can’t see that Mattera isn’t the story here, you’re in worse shape than I thought. I guess that particular shark has already been jumped. Pity.

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    No, we love the jackass you elected.

    He’s a walking ball of fail.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_57BJSLL54M5XSKW6575EO5TNYE Pablo

    Really – what do these ambush interviews result in?  When is the last time an ambush interview accomplished anything meaningful?  Or lasted in a news cycle longer than 48 hours?   When i see this crap, I think of the “hotshot” investigative reporter for News 56 at 10 in Sheboygan Wi, who asks the water meter reader why he stopped off for an hour at a strip joint and dranik beer? 

    It ain’t news – it’s car wreck stuff..a reporter secretly hopes they’re going to get punched in the face so he or she is a bit more famous.  Some important person looks bad for 24 hours….maybe less

    It scares me that this may become the future of journalism.   It’s really sad

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    Swish.

  • Anonymous

    Vanity Fair had a really good article you should read on the public worker pension problem at the local level.
    You can be upset about Wall Street’s role in blowing up the economy all you want, I am as well. That doesn’t mean you should bury your head in the sand regarding what has a chance to be the next economic bomb.

    http://www.vanityfair.com/business/features/2011/11/michael-lewis-201111

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    Democrats elected a man instead of Hillary Clinton in 2008.

    Why do they hate women?

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    But in the data required to be reported, the center found $75 million in
    direct contributions from unions and union members to candidates and
    parties, of which over $68 million went to Democrats. It also found $86
    million in outside spending by labor in the 2008 cycle, which largely
    benefited Democrats. It also identified an additional $52.7 million in
    spending from labor groups  in 527 organizations, tax exempt
    organizations that seek to influence elections. Add it up, and you get
    $206.7 million.

  • Randy

    I will answer your sarcastic rant.  The amount is the going private sector rate for the same job, or less since the public sector employee usually has cadillac plan health and retirement benefits attached to a job that they can never be fired from for lack of performance. So basically they settle to a low performing plateau while collecting 10 -15 sick days aka additional vacation days, ground hog day and valentines day, snow days, as well as the major holidays. (Ever been to the DMV, Federal IRS office, any public sector school, etc. And to inform you this magnanimous Boss you speak of - the Government in which you thank for your cushy overpaid/over benfited job is merely handing over hard working private sector dollars to secure a vote in the next election at the society at larges cost. So get off you high horse and stop looking down your liberal parasitic nose at the real world / conservative private sector funding source of your excesses.   

  • zach

    The VP blatantly fear mongering isn’t an issue at hand?

  • Anonymous

     Maybe Obama needs to hire you, a cool analytical type who is spot on!

  • http://twitter.com/MissConservaGal MissConservaGal

    “He was basically showing that as you cut police, crime goes up.”

    Sure, Except for when it doesn’t. Did you even bother to look up the crime statistics as of late?

    The crime rate is down for the 3rd year in a row despite the recession. Even your friends at the Huffington Post know that, Nando.

    Moral of the story — this website is junk and very rarely do the writers even bother to fact check their own pieces.

    Pretty pathetic if you ask me.

  • Anonymous

    This is a very interesting interpretation of this clip. When I first saw it without commentary I thought Joe looked like and a$$. But more I thought the woman asking “Who are you with”… was even more telling. Using “rape” to sell a bill comes of pretty bad in my opinion. And here is something to make Joe look even worse…..

    IF you accept Joe’s premise that the bill is to stop rape and murder, then why is $5 billion  going to “first responders” (or 911 as we know it). and $30 billion going to teachers?????

    So let me get this straight?????

    More money = less rape… right Joe???

    So why is propping up union teachers 6 TIMES more important that the rape victims your using to sell this bill??? AND again….. this is NOT $30 billion to build more schools or the fix the infrastructure of the schools we have. Not to buy more books or build better libraries. It is for teachers unions. So in Joe analogy teachers unions are 6 times more important that rape and murder victims?

    Something to chew on…….

    PS… I think the whole ambush this goes back to 20/20 and 60 minutes…. why does the left have such a problem when a conservative does the same thing?

  • Anonymous

    This is possibly one of the most absurd analyses I’ve read.  

    No, that does not make him ‘pro-rape’.  He is arguing, in his usual inartful manner, that there is an inverse correlation between instances of violent crime and police ranks.  When police ranks increase, violent crime decreases.  It really is that simple.

  • Anonymous

    You and the right wing creeps you hang with live off of fear and hate and our always trying to divide people based on gay marriage or other fringe issues. What pedophile is your tiny palindronic mind referring too?

    12 other paranoid crackpots seem to be on your wavelength.

  • Anonymous

    This is a very interesting interpretation of this clip. When I
    first saw it without commentary I thought Joe looked like and a$$. But
    more I thought the woman asking “Who are you with”… was even more
    telling. Using “rape” to sell a bill comes of pretty bad in my opinion.
    And here is something to make Joe look even worse…..IF you
    accept Joe’s premise that the bill is to stop rape and murder, then why
    is $5 billion  going to “first responders” (or 911 as we know it). and
    $30 billion going to teachers?????So let me get this straight?????More money = less rape… right Joe???So
    why is propping up union teachers 6 TIMES more important that the rape
    victims your using to sell this bill??? AND again….. this is NOT $30
    billion to build more schools or the fix the infrastructure of the
    schools we have. Not to buy more books or build better libraries. It is
    for teachers unions. So in Joe analogy teachers unions are 6 times more
    important that rape and murder victims?Something to chew on…….PS…
    I think the whole ambush this goes back to 20/20 and 60 minutes…. why
    does the left have such a problem when a conservative does the same
    thing?

  • Anonymous

    Wow, that is so clever, you are simply a genius.

  • VV

    How about trying to add facts to your arguments so people will take you seriously.Other wise you will make a fool of yourself…as you already have a few times here…If i didn’t have a union I would be making less and have less benefits…period…

  • Anonymous

    Another gopher pops out of his hole. So no one should write any stories about the president unless they include a detailed analysis of your pet issues? What difference does any of it make to you, you are a confirmed right winger who’ll never vote for him

  • Anonymous

    Have you ever read Alinsky’s dreaded list of rules for radicals? Its just really general political tactics that have been used by both sides forever. Hell, it reads like the Fox news instruction manual. Get a new boogie man already.

  • Anonymous

    “Yes, cops are good, but as the old saying goes: when seconds count, cops are minutes away.  The comparison is flawed and anyone who has two brain cells to rub together knows it.”

    That old canard of reason…   While the saying is true, that does not change the fact that empirical evidence indicates that instances of rape decrease when there are more police.

    Thankfully, our ancestors realized centuries ago that human reason is an inadequate means in which to understand our environment and, in response, developed empirical methods. 

  • Anonymous

    Because you are so pathetic and full of it, Your posts are so crude and alarmist.

  • Anonymous

    No I think you are about as unhinged as you are paranoid. 100 lb chip on a shoulder next to a 100 g brain

  • Exgoper

    A dumb, not very well thought out analogy, but if it comforts you to embrace it, go for it.

  • Anonymous

    1.  For your rebuttal to be logically sound it would have to be true that police have never and will never prevent or stop a rape from occurring when a woman calls for help.  I am certain police have done this and will continue to do this (as long as they are not laid off).  Thus critique is voided and in fact illustrates the validity of VP Biden’s example.

    2. Your comments on “tax increase/class-warfare-foder-for-campaign-bill being pushed by Obama” is incoherent.  I am curious as to ‘class-warfare’ – this statement assumes that we have ‘classes’ in the US and one or more are at ‘war’ with another.  Is out poverty-class at war with our middle-class?  is our middle class at war with our wealthy class?  Is our wealthy class at war with the poverty or middle classes.  Please explain which of the classes is at war with which other class.

    3. Is there a ‘ruling-class (Obama would seem to fall into either the ‘wealthy class’ or ‘ruling class’))?  If the ruling class is at war with another class would they war with the class they are funded by (wealthy class) or the middle or poverty classes?  Explain.

    Thank you in advance for helping me understand your position…

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    Why do you hate women?

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    Are they?

    Or do you just not like having to take what you dish out?

  • Anonymous

    That is certainly a nice little work of fiction you have going there..   Not a fact to be found anywhere.  Quite typical of the public employee argument.

    Just the typical lying BS about “securing votes”.  

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    It makes perfect sense.

    All Biden’s talking about here, in his own special way, is esource allocation.

    Well, if it’s all about who is getting how much, then why isn’t it fair game to use Biden’s rhetoric to suggest that the $535 million that the Obama Administration willfully flushed down the toilet on the Solyndra debacle would have prevented more rapes if that money had gone to police officers instead?

    It’s a perfect analogy, and it pisses you off because it points out how stupid the Obama Administration twice in one punch.

  • RACE BAITING@6 RESIST WE MUCH!

    Hey Lt.  u seen this ? Was  this Trevor ? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNAaDKZ-SuE&feature=related

  • Michelle

    About as dumb as Biden blaming rapes and murders on the Republicans, wouldn’t you say?

  • Randy

    Hey VV here is a fact for you from Bureau of Labor statistics:  In 2010, the union membership rate–the percent of wage and salary workers who were
    members of a union–was 11.9 percent, down from 12.3 percent a year earlier, the U.S.
    Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today.   So you see it’s not all about “YOU” I know you and your mom might disagree – but you are in the minority.    88.10% of us are not in a union and do not care if you would have to make less or equal to the private sector, period! Since again we are paying for it.

  • Anonymous

    It’s not ambush journalism because of the question, it’s the method of asking it. In this case he pretended to want a photograph to get close before launching into the questions.

  • Texan

    How bout that dummy from npr that got shit canned?

    After violating National Public Radio’s ethics code by acting as a spokeswoman for Occupy DC protesters, Lisa Simeone was fired Wednesday evening from one of the two public radio programs she hosts

  • VV

    Again..if you want to make less…be my quest..and only fools bring up someone’s mother…if they don’t know what they are talking about.

    .and I work for a company..not the govt..but i support the working class.
    .and just because union membership is down doesn’t mean anything., except the rich get richer..which i suppose you like

  • Anonymous

    Why do you ask such silly self pitying irrelevant questions like that?

  • Randy

    Want more facts – how about close to home - my sons school district Worthington, OH. The Worthington teachers average salary is $75,000 a year (or 9 months) with 2 weeks off at X-mas, 2 weeks off for spring break, no contrib to health or pension necessary (pension = 80% of 3 highest yrs salary for life) we pay half of their deductible (why? not sure). and they work 7.5 hrs a day. I am talking kinder, elementary, etc. the teachers are retiring/dropping like flys to be grandfathered into their pensions before isse 5 takes effect. Everyone I know in private sector has either had earnings frozen or reduced, our teachers (Worthington OH) are beginning a 5 yr pay increase period pushed by threats of having to close down schools if the levy did not pass.  Typical public sector unionized teacher tactic.  Again these excesses are funded by the private sector (we are the 88.1%) that is why we/me have a say in this matter and need to see realistic levels of compensation.  

  • Anonymous

    John Birch, an American Baptist missionary and U.S. military intelligence officer.(Strange combination)   A real liberal in his own time I’m sure.

  • Anonymous

    I really disagree with the way the interns at Mediaite phrased the headline.  First of all, Jason Mattera deserved a name drop in there.  He’s one of the main editors of Human Events and a New York Time best-selling author, and ambush interviews like these gave him both of those things.

    What Joe Biden said was reprehensible.  If he was talking about the Second Amendment, people would be with him.  If that woman had a hand gun or that shop owner had a shotgun under the counter, they would scare off the attempted what have you off like they were on fire.

  • Ralph-NY

    Our own Tommy Christopher has a running feud with him.

    Wow how professional of him.

  • Anonymous

    Over 200 dead Mexicans directly related to Fast & Furious is pet issue to you?  The Mexican government wants to extradite everyone who knew of the program and let it happen so they can stand trial for manslaughter.  That’s not a pet issue.  That’s an international incident with scores of dead people with more to come for years as about 1,400 of the 2,000 guns bought through the program have not been recovered.

  • Indigo710

    The MSM is biased and liberal . Over 100 stories about Enron, very few about Solyndra.

  • VV

    I want teachers , firemen..police to make a lot of money..who else should?  Some CEO i suppose .thats ok with you….Sounds like envy you part…try listening to some one else besides right wing DJ’s and you might understand..the real world

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3SABG5GBR4PCI4CO2IITCSNJO4 Anonymous

    Because they’d be so busy typing “Liberals” or “Leftists” that they’d never have time for the rest of the story.

  • Michelle

    Well when Biden and Barry will only talk to their liberal lapdogs, you have to do that sometimes.

  • Jackie

    Schooled?
    Are you for real?!
    Biden is a dumb-witted thug.
    Any reasonable person cannot possibly agree with the crap he spews.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_A4OJ2F7ADXSD7OMEUUEQDQDZ2Y Dustin Baker

    I still don’t know why Mediaite employs writers who have an obvious far left wing bias and have no problem with them writing articles like these.  It really does hurt Mediaite’s reputation.

  • Randy

    (1) Point one – as long as you are certain thats good enough for me – don’t bother with facts that your friends on here seem to request only from me.
    (2) I don’t have time to educate you – google class warfare / liberal tactics

  • Anonymous

    Mediaite never ceases to amaze me.  Joe Biden claims Republicans want women raped and innocent people murdered.  And Mediaite focuses its anger at a journalist who asks Biden about these comments!

    Mediaite should run an honest transcript of the Biden’s original comments — which are the most despicable and vile commentary I’ve heard from an a major politician in a long, long time.  That would be a real news story — which this pathetic hit piece is not.

  • Anonymous

    You’re basically saying what all the right-wing talking heads do, its not like you’re some maverick or something, lol. 

  • Anonymous

    Who are the morons who call Mattera a journalist?  He’s an activist for the conservative movement from the time he was a ratfcker with YAF to the present time.  He’s as much as a journalist as Michael Moore is and way more disgusting

  • Anonymous

    Local payrolls and state govt payrolls have been dwindling since the stimulus money started.  It’s part of the austerity you folks love.  Biden just cited stats on how Flint’s cops went down and violent crime went up.  He would like to help them have the money to hire more.

  • Randy

    As long as I am not paying for the CEO’s salary with my tax dollars – I don’t care what he makes. That is the difference between a conservative and a liberal – you have bought into the class warfare rhetoric initiated by your feckless (look it up) leaders.  

  • Anonymous

    Since when do you care about Mexicans, except to order them thrown out of the country or cheer Herman Cain’s electrified fence. 

    I can’t decide what’s more troubling:  incompetent law enforcement officers who screwed up and allowed 200 Mexicans to die or the conservatives who would use dead people as a political tool to undermine the administration.  I know which is more disgusting.

    Have you no shame?

  • http://OsamaObamaBIDENbiNLAden.blogspot.com/ Patty

    He always has a way with words.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NWVKX2P2QBPQ6FHQHCHVIC2ALQ Fedup in Florida

    Well let’s take a look…

    “Goss retired four years ago, at 42, from a $90,000 job as a
    police commander in Delray Beach, Fla. He immediately began drawing a $65,000
    annual pension that is guaranteed for life, is indexed to keep up with
    inflation and comes with full health benefits.

    Goss promptly took a new job as police chief in nearby
    Highland Beach. One big lure: the benefits.

    Given that the average man his age will live to 78, Goss is
    already worth nearly $2 million, based on the present value of his vested
    retirement benefits. Looked at another way, he is a $2 million liability to
    Florida taxpayers.”Glenn will be worth alot more as he earns benefits from his second employment courtesy of the Florida taxpayers…..How about New York….For New York City’s 281,000 employees, average compensation has risen 63% since 2000 to $107,000 a year. New Jersey teaching veterans receive $80,000 to $100,000 for ten months’ work. In California prison guards can sock away $300,000 a year with overtime pay.Four in five public-sector workers have lifetime pensions, versus only one in five in the private sector. The difference shifts huge risks from government to private-sector workers.NYC socked away $20,000 per employee last year for pension benefits. Since 2000 its pension funding bill has risen ninefold, from $615 million to $5.6 billion in 2008. That’s more than the city spends on transport, health care, parks, libraries, museums and City University of New York combined, says the Citizens Budget Commission.These benefits are so sacrosanct, and such a source of union power, that labor bosses have turned them into the third rail for NYC politicians–touching them is suicide. That goes for the benefits not only of existing workers but of future ones as well.”We have far less to spend on core services, such as public safety, education, parks and senior centers,” Mayor Michael Bloomberg wrote in December of the city’s pension costs. “That defies common sense, and it’s hurting our city.”http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2009/0216/078.htmlA deeper look at the problem….  http://www.cato.org/pubs/journal/cj30n1/cj30n1-5.pdfWhat people like you don’t seem to understand that even though I may be conservative, I don’t give a crap about the bankers on Wall Street or the Jeffery Immelts of the world, as far as I am concerned I agree with OWS, many of those bastards should be in jail, That does not mean that Wall Street has an important function to preform in our economy, and it is time that they get back to preforming that function instead of running the world’s largest casino.  Maybe we can take a different look at what the pension abuses and uncontrolled government spending is doing to this country and a different group of people that are rarely mentioned in these discussions. Currently there are about 40 million Americans over the age of 65 it is a good bet that most of these folks are retired and living on fixed incomes.  That number will increase greatly over the next 20 or so years. The current policies of this government spending well beyond it’s means is destroying the ability of these retirees to keep up with what they thought was a secured retirement plan.  My mother for instance is in her 80′s, about ten years ago my father died but he had fortunately set aside enough money and investments that my mother’s continued retirement seemed very secure.  Now with the current inflation that the government tries so hard to deny, coupled with the devaluation of the dollar thanks to the Fed’s activities to support the deficit spending of this government my mother’s future now is questionable.  Anyone who does the grocery shopping or fills their car with gas, pays the electric and water bills around their homes can hardly argue that inflation does not exist, in fact it is becoming quite a burden on the items that one can hardly do without.  Then add to that the the Fed is stealing money right out of her savings account as it’s monetary policies add up to little more than a way for the government to funnel money out of America’s savings accounts and into the treasury….  if you doubt this the price of gold which is the historic measure of the value of the dollar in the last 5 years has risen from just under $550 and ounce to today’s price of $1607 and ounce… So what looked like quite a secure saving for my mothers future just a few short years ago now looks like diddly squat!   This is hardly short of theft from the people who can least afford it…..  No I do not love big business fat cats, I do love employment and careers for American workers, but I do hate big government who just seems to take and take and while never living up to and correcting their failures which they seemingly expect the American taxpayer to just suck up and take in stride as they move on to the next failure!Who’s looking out for my mom?  You with your Big Government cheerleading?  I don’t think so. 

  • Anonymous

    What actual evidence does Joe Biden have that says that passing Obama’s jobs bill will make rape and murder decrease? Will his jobs bill give the police the right to shoot and kill murderers and rapists? He can’t prove that the jobs bill will decrease rapes and murders. Hes fear mongering.

  • Anonymous

    It will come as not surprise to anybody that Republicans support rape.  Look at all of the Republican rape advocates right here in this thread.

  • Anonymous

    I think we should figure out exactly how many cops we need to reduce rapes, like the amount of rapes a cop could stop in an hour. Depending on the location of the rapes, I think an officer could stop 10 rapes an hour if he’s given a running start. 

    At the OWS protests they’re actually using rape as a form of currency, a beautiful/clean hippie woman will fetch a high sum, while a fugly dirty vegan girl can usually be wooed for only meager amounts of soy milk.

    My favorite part of the OWS protest was probably the delicious jew-meat prepared on-site by various islamic kebab autuers. The Jew meat was a little too filling, a bit too rich for my tastes, I traded three rapes for a Jew kebab and then made my way over to the Racism Carnival where OWS protestors took turns hating all the different races, next to the carnival was a small street cordoned off for OWS protesters to pray for the annihilation of the infidel.

    Sometime yesterday Michael Moore stopped by and told us that most of congress was paid for and in the hands of big business and big business illegally used it’s power to buy votes away from the American public. In essence he was saying that we are having our political power taken away from us, that all the debating in the world won’t matter because the people’s opinion is worth le$$ to congress.

    It was nice and all but they were serving rape brisket nearby and the subtle aromas distracted me from that big fatty michael moore. LONG LIVE COMMUNISM or whatever!

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    He’s as much a journalist as Tommy Christopher, or Christiane Amanpour. Or Ezra Klein.

    Etc.

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    All Democrats love rape. All Democrats support rape. All Democrats hate America. All Democrats hate patriotism. All Democrats are compulsive liars. All Democrats have the troops with a passion. All Democrats love troop deaths. All Democrats are hatemongers. All
    Democrats crap on the troops every chance they get.

    /alter-Korean Trevor

  • Rio

    There was never a balanced budget under Clinton, he had a deficit every year in office:

    1994, $281 billion deficit
    1995  $281 billion
    1996  $188 billion
    1997  $113 billion
    1998  $131 billion
    1999  $ 18 billion
    2000  $133 billion

    The surplus was created by borrowing from the nation’s trust funds to give an appearance of a surplus.

    Here is an agry Senator Fritz Hollings-D on the Senate floor explaining exactly how it was done to fool the public.  He also chastises the lazy press for not reporting it.

    http://www.c-spanarchives.org/program/SenateSession2384&start=6825

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    I think a lot of people took issue with this portion of his comments, which don’t appear in this story.

    “I wish these guys who thought it was temporary, I wish they had some notion of what it was like to be on the other side of a gun, or [to have] a 200-pound man standing over you, telling you to submit,” Biden told a crowd at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia on Tuesday, adding, “Folks, it matter, it matters.”As for *schooling* Jason, I don’t think that was schooling. It was hostile and inflammatory. He is saying that if Republicans don’t pass the bill people will be raped. He can try and worm his way out of it, but that’s what he did.And also:Besides, staffing for police departments is the responsibility of state and local governments, not the federal government, and this bill doesn’t put more police on the streets anyway.  It allows states to paper over budget gaps for another year rather than address their systemic budgetary issues, and protect unionized bureaucrats whose jobs should be on the chopping block.  It’s entirely temporary.  Biden’s going for cheap demagoguery here in order to hide the failure of the last stimulus package.http://hotair.com/archives/2011/10/19/biden-i-wish-my-opponents-knew-what-it-was-like-to-be-robbed-or-raped/

  • http://twitter.com/TweetRWS Red White & Screwed

    Am I on another f’in planet? How in the world did Biden “School” him? If anything, he exposed him. The video with copy of his speech is all over the place. It clearly shows Biden trying to scare people for support and acting desperate with his analogies. The reporter clearly shows Biden lying about his comments. Are you libtards really that dumb to not see it? Party allegiance is what got our asses in this mess we are in now. Right & Left. I don’t get it.

  • Rio

    No balanced budget, no surplus and no 100,000 additional “cops on the streets”  In 2009, Obama already used stimulus funds to create a replica of the Clinton program, now here we go again, what happened to the money Obama supposedly spent on cops? 

    Here’s what happened to the Clinton program:

    As with most everything else in government, the COPS reality was far different from the claims of its political supporters and beneficiaries. Despite spending more than $11 billion between 1995 and 2003 when its annual funding was significantly reduced, the COPS program never reached its goal of putting 100,000 new cops on the streets. At best, it temporarily funded about 57,000 new positions, according to a study funded by the Justice Department, while the Heritage Foundation’s David Muhlausen estimated that COPS grants funded no more than 40,000. Even worse, in the vast majority of crime categories, multiple studies found that getting COPS grants had, at best, negligible effects on crime rates, no matter the population, demographics or economic standing of recipient jurisdictions. In short, the COPS initiative was an expensive failure that achieved nothing other than creating more photo ops for professional politicians.

    Read more at the San Francisco Examiner: http://www.sfexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/2011/02/house-republicans-cop-out-stopping-cops#ixzz1bLQFJhoJ

    And, here’s Senator Fritz Hollings-D spilling the beans on the phony Clinton surplus claim.

    http://www.c-spanarchives.org/program/SenateSession2384&start=6825

  • S R Karenova

    I’m a Tea Party member and I joined the 99% movement because I was tired of the government and corporations causing this country to go down the drain. Both are responsible for the reason why we find ourselves in this terrible situation. I’m asking all my fellow Tea Party brothers and sisters to join the movement to take our country back.

  • Anonymous

    Of course she can’t put up a link to something she pulled out of her arse. 

  • Rio

    Iraq body count ring a bell?

  • Anonymous

    ugh
    The things you don’t know because you’re not curious may be greater than the things you don’t know because you’re a paranoid partisan hack.

    I have trouble deciding which one is at play here

  • Anonymous

    You mean with your kind not really caring about innocents who died?

    Surely, you don’t mean someone like me who opposed the Iraq invasion because it was stupid and then became more and more offended at the loss of innocent life.

    If you care about the plight of the Mexican cartles, why are you trying to bring down the AG and President of the US? Why aren’t helping the Mexican government keep out guns out of Mexico?

  • Rio

    Flint’s declining population rate is one of the highest in the nation, from 2008 to 2009 I think I remember seeing that it dropped 11% and still declining.  What’s left up there is largely a population that no one wants to live among, one could put the NG up there and there would still  be crime.  My son has been there since May, they are working 12 hour days, 7 days a week to get the heck out of there and are not taking anymore contracts in Flint, Michigan.

    VP Gaffspaztic certainly chose the wrong city as an example, but what the public doesn’t know….

  • Rio

    The Good Lt. is an officer and a gentleman and jealousy gets you anxiety and frustration, have a Rolaids on me.

  • Rio

    They are tag teaming the American people and those who represent us.  I picture them in wife beaters,  tights and speedos bouncing off ropes back into the fist of………the American people and those who represent them.

  • Anonymous

    your dedication to your fellow Americans is touching. Could you just give us a list on which American cities are really “American” enough for you. those will be the ones we save from depredation. The “others” will just have to fend for themselves, eh?

  • Rio

    Awww, grumpy morrisminor is having a bad day.

  • Rio

    And Biden’s crude remarks are not part of the re-elect strategy?  You think this garbage was off the cuff….twice?

  • Rio

    He’s a true “hairbrain,” the real thing.

  • Rio

    Who knows, perhaps he felt the need to pretend to not get stuffed in a janitor’s closet.

  • caconservative

    Fear mongering has become the mainstay of Obimbo’s administration. If he doesn’t have the necessary votes to pass a bill, send out the dogs and use scare tactic language. What’s needed is an armed and trained society to ready to protect themselves. Law enforcement can’t, and this idiot Biden knows it.

  • Anonymous

    Yep, CNN continues to strive to be FOX lite.  Biden handled that beautifully!
    If you want some real statistics as to what has happened to the middle class in just one generation then watch this amazing 2007 Elizabeth Warren lecture.  EDUCATE YOURSELF!

    The Coming Collapse of the Middle Class
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akVL7QY0S8A&feature=mh_lolz&list=FL7ZleFvZc2Uf_ssxvtFVWQQ

  • Anonymous

    Shut up….Troll and let me also add….. ‹^› ‹(•¿•)› ‹^›
     

  • Anonymous

    You’ve been flagged.

  • Anonymous

    You’ve been flagged.

  • http://www.facebook.com/tony.westover Tony Westover

    *LOL* Joe Biden didn’t school shit. He clearly made an equivalence of being against Big Government spending (or a “jobs” bill as they like to lie and call it) means you’re causing rapes and murders.

    It is cute that Mediaite has yet another far-leftist cheerleader who’ll mindlessly support Socialist Progressives no matter how illogical their comments are.

  • http://twitter.com/bj9mac Bill Hicks

    Biden isn’t too bright, but he seems like a good guy.

    Herman Cain on the other hand is a complete fucking moron! The right of return? uh… what’s that? Negotiate with terrorists to release the GITMO detainees… sure! Raise taxes on poor people? Yup! Add a national sales tax on everyone? Sounds great! Pro-life? Of course… but the mother should have a choice. Alan Greenspan was a great FED chairman. Hahahahahaha!

  • Anonymous

    flagged for what? satire? lol

  • Anonymous

    it’s grossly off-topic. 

    it demonstrates that despite what you think is a red herring re Solyndra, you are dealing with a highly competitive green energy technology field and China. 

    and that i have to metaphorically take a shot due to the use of “Solyndra” as a ba-zinga!  if you managed to add “Fast & Furious”, i’d have to metaphorically down the whole bottle.

    and that you still post all.the.time on mediaite. i don’t care if you work from home, you seem to not work a lot and post here instead. 

    finally, i remind myself that the GOP/RWers are the ones who tried to redefine “rape” in a House Bill and recently passed in the House the “we can allow women to die Act” (Protect Life Act) which, I believe, has nothing to do with j-o-b-s.

  • Rio

    Tim, you said, “or conservatives that would use dead people as a tool to undermine the administration.”

    I said, Iraq body count ring a bell?”

    So now you go off on a rant you made up out of whole cloth attributing your imaginary thoughts to my kind.

    You claim the investigation into Fast and Furious is a goal to “bring down the AG and President of the US?  Then what were the numerous investigations into 911, the numerous investigations in both houses of Congress into the  Iraq War, one that was to determine if any words from the Bush administration influenced the run up to war, the firings of the US attorneys, etc.  Obviously, investigations go with the territory but is only an issue if the administration happens to be run by a democrat.  Cry me a river.

  • Anonymous

    It’s not a suggestion.  Biden is stating facts that he backs up with statistical data.

  • Anonymous

    Do you have some facts to back this claim?  The facts as I understand them are that gun laws have become more lax under Obama.

  • Rio

    There he goes again, playing with his imaginary enemies.

    You do realize that Flint already received $2.8 million in stimulus funds in 2009, they also got $1.1 million for 2 ‘green’ electric buses that can stay out on the roads for four hours, priorties, priorities.

    Flint was forced to lay off police because they refused to take cuts in pay and benefits, so they laid off 25 officers, fighters did cooperate with the city and are still working.  The city is $5 billion in the hole, so who is really responsible for “other” having to fend for themselves.

    My son-in-law is a police officer that has taken a cut in pay and benefits, he has also had to pay for his gas occasionally, but, he was the first one on the force to get the new squad SUV, quite the fancy vehicle but he would rather be driving his old squad car.  Again, priorities. 

  • Lizton

    Bravo Biden for slapping down that little teabagger creep. lol

  • Michelle

    He’s one of yours, own it!

  • Tex45

    Matterra is another vile dirtbag propagandist like Brietbart.

  • Michelle

    If Joe cared so much, why didn’t he make sure the money from the first stimulus that was earmarked for cops and teachers, wasn’t instead used to pad outrageous pensions?  Or why did they think it was more important to give millions to Solyndra that could’ve gone to keep teachers and cops employeed?

  • Anonymous

    Written commentary ( that can only come from an OWS puppet) that is so EXPONENTIALLY stupid that not even your fellow drone-pigs welcome it. Hilarious!

  • Anonymous

    Joe Biden, the dumbest man to ever be Senator or Vice-President could not school a two year old in anything. This man is an absolute moron.

  • Anonymous

    Why isn’t this labeled as a column?

  • TruDat

    Looked to me like Biden walked away red faced.

  • Anonymous

    A puppet in what respect?

  • Anonymous

    I don’t know what’s wrong with you girl. Are u just a moron or are u just making things up. Stimulus money was used to save plenty of teachers and cops jobs. u were the first ones to debate if “saving a job” was the same as creating one. People in Washington don’t get anything done because of people like u!!!

  • Anonymous

    Joe writes all his White House correspondence in crayon….LOL!!!

  • Anonymous

    Don’t mess with Biden!! I like that guy! In a game where everybody is scripted, he is the only one who says it as it is! I am making a DON’T SCREW WITH BIDEN t-shirts. Anyone interested in getting one? Biden is bad ass!

  • caconservative

    Look at that number…$1-Billion, he’s going to need every cent and more to get reelected. Just how scared do you have to be to raise that much money? Don’t you find that number to be just a little obscene?!

  • Anonymous

    Where does Biden think the money for police and fire comes from? He may be so stupid he doesn’t actually understand that everything is funded by the private sector. Obama’s wasteful, gargantuan, union-laden pork bill does more to undermine the private sector by heaping more entirely non-productive debt on the US economy. Biden’s effort to link the bill to an increase in rape is demagogic, immoral and just plain flat out stupid. As stupid as the plagiarizing, lying, moronic Joe Biden in fact.

  • Indigo710

    After federal funding for those jobs for 1 year the state (broke) govts. will have to pay them, HOW? by raising taxes.

  • Indigo710

    After federal funding for those jobs for 1 year the state (broke) govts. will have to pay them, HOW? by raising taxes.

  • Indigo710

    Make Franken look bad?  Franken is a ntwit.

  • Indigo710

    Solyndra and Fast and Furious are NOT pet issues.  They are  crimes.

  • Indigo710

    Flints police are a state responsibility, not a federal one.

  • Indigo710

    Actually, the data shows the opposite of what biden said.

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    *citation needed

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    Is that all you have for me today, tim?

  • Bob Uda

    “Don’t screw around with me.” ~ Joe Biden

    Who in the world does this guy think he is.  He is only a measly vice president for goodness sake.  The guy thinks he is a tinhorn dictator like his boss.  These guys are has beens and will be summarily voted out on November 6, 2012.  Losers.

  • Indigo710

    You don’t belong to a TEA party.

  • Anonymous

    “Schools”? Really Nando?  “Don’t screw around with me” coupled with Bidens’ logic that  rape and murder rates will  increases dramatically if we don’t pay for another public union employee bailout (that funding will last for 9 months at best) is a”schooling”?  On top of that, the little toadie demanding what organisation he is with. If you are  pr flack and you don’t know who that guy is already you are not doing your effing job

  • Anonymous

    Really? One could even say that Flint police are the responsibility of Flint.

    There is no legal requirement for the Feds to provide money for the states to aid their budgets to keep state employees working, which is why, since the stimulus went away late last year, cities and states have been laying people, which makes the economy worse and, in Flint’s case, makes living there even harder.

    That is why aid to the states was part of the first stimulus and would be good for the states now as well.

  • Anonymous

    Is your paranoid fantasy that the news media is equal to a “ratfcker” (blame Lee Atwater, not me) all you have for any of us?

    Does it ever get tiring to whine constantly that the media is against the Party which has won 7 of the last 11 Presidential elections and won control of Congress for the first time since the 40′s? How were the Republicans able to do it if the entire media is just out to get them?

    You let us know, lt

  • Anonymous

    I get it, man, Flint is full of people who you don’t give a crap about. And, having entire wastelands is just a-okay for the economy, because it allows us to cut more taxes for the rich….you know the policy your betters and Tea Party leaders tells you will help

  • flj

    It has long been considered offensive to use the word Jew as a modifier, as in “Jew meat.”  But it is not uncommon to see anti-Semites use the word that way.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Theresa-Darklady-Reed/581698361 Theresa ‘Darklady’ Reed

    What the hell did he mean by “to use language…”

    Are we not allowed to refer to rape as rape now? 

    Is there some… more polite… way to describe a person being forced into sex with another person?

  • sigh

    I’ll feed you troll.

    “I wish these guys who thought it was temporary, I wish they had some notion of what it was like to be on the other side of a gun, or [to have] a 200-pound man standing over you, telling you to submit,” Biden told a crowd at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia on Tuesday, adding, “Folks, it matter, it matters.”

  • sigh

    Your factual rebuttal was amazing.

  • sigh

    They’ve become more lax for illegal aliens at least. Thanks DOJ!

  • Anonymous

    “Consensual Liberal Sex” is the only alternative for “Rape”

  • http://impossibledreamsmedia.com Chris Jones

    To make that claim that passing Obama’s phony jobs bill decrease incidents of rape and murder is outrageous and absurd. Joe Biden is an idiot and Obama’s phony jobs bill sucks.

  • Anonymous

    You’re a bit late in your condemnation.  Kitty already called him out.

  • Anonymous

    I find it absolutely hilarious how you constantly make assertions without citation, yet demand them from everyone else.

  • Anonymous

    I find it absolutely hilarious how you constantly make assertions without citation, yet demand them from everyone else.

  • Anonymous

    “Alan Greenspan was a great FED chairman.”

    Oh, I missed that.  When did he say that?

  • Michelle

    Um, I was talking to Kitty. I wasn’t condemning anyone.  Try to keep up.

  • Michelle

    Oh come on!  I’m trying to teach them to do their own darn research!

  • http://jcrue.wordpress.com/ jcrue

    Biden schooled no one.

  • http://jcrue.wordpress.com jcrue

    F’ing Joe Biden didn’t school anyone.

  • Anonymous

    He;s a Senator, a successful writer and comic and a Harvard graduate , hardly a nitwit.

  • Anonymous

    CONs do hate women (in the legal protection sense). 

    In the new Protect Life Act passed by the House (which will never make it to the light of day), it is okay for a health care worker to not perform an abortion to save the life of the mother.

    They attempted to redefine the term “rape” in a bill regarding TItle X.

    They like to insinuate that if women didn’t dress a certain way, well…  I mean, she was asking for it.

    They would rather not vaccinate their daughters with Guardasil so that they may get cervical cancer when they are older.

    They would rather not educate their daughters about sex/birth control because they can’t be trusted to not have sex.

  • Anonymous

    I will just go ahead and ignore the beeping of my sarcasm radar and accept ur praises. 

  • Anonymous

    It looked more like tattling than calling me out, if you have half a brain you can tell my post wasn’t serious. 

  • Anonymous

    It looked more like tattling than calling me out, if you have half a brain you can tell my post wasn’t serious. 

  • Anonymous

    How about a private sector answer to rape and murder?  Do away with the unconstitutional firearms restrictions and go back to allowing people to defend themselves.  After all, “When seconds count, police are only minutes away”.

  • Ken

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/bidens-absurd-claims-about-rising-rape-and-murder-rates/2011/10/20/gIQAkq0y1L_blog.html
    WaPo schools Biden. Headline is basically junk, Nando. I thought journalists checked facts, my mistake. 

  • Anonymous

    So the assertion that if we approve another $35 billion that rape, murder, and robbery will, at the minimum, stay the same, is a good argument for you Anthony?  No wonder you’re a lefty.

  • Johnny Kaye

    “Schooled”?  I’m sorry, but it looks more like the VP ran off before he could GET schooled.

  • Ccrazyhorz

    That reporter was trying to SCREW around, with the words that Biden was trying to EXPLAIN… he didn’t want to let the V.P explain, and tried to TURN it around, then in the same sentence, brings up the LANGUAGE, and that was trying to TRAP Biden. It is good that Biden’s folks got him outta there, because the QUESTIONAIRE guy, was trying to TRAP him… using bad language, COME ON…

  • Ccrazyhorz

    jcrue, and the reason you don’t understand it, is that your so-called BRAIN is DEAD.

  • Anonymous

    joey looked like a ldiot

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