Why isn’t the mainstream media devoting half hour specials and phone in analysis to Obama and Biden the way they did to Hillary Clinton when she told her tale of being under sniper fire?
So far, to recap, we have Joe Biden’s helicopter being forced down in Afghanistan by Al Qaeda (it wasn’t, it was forced down by a snowstorm) and Barack Obama remembering being in Hawaii to see Apollo return to Earth at a time when according to all accounts (including that of his own book) he was in Indonesia for at least 8 years when it happened. I’ve written about it here and at various other times.
Now we have Joe Biden stepping to the forefront again and remembering something that flat-out didn’t happen.
On July 31, he recounted to the Georgia Parliament how on his last visit, in 2008, he heard artillery fire and fighter jets. The problem is that the fighting was over already, and when he was there, he was over twenty miles away from where it was actually happening. As you can see from this photo taken by the US Embassy in Georgia, Biden doesn’t exactly look terrified and in danger.
In other words, yet another harrowing tale of courage by the great Joe Biden can be chalked up to yet another lie by a guy who can’t seem to remember things as they actually happened and has a history of embellishing his record.
Seeing as I’ve said this before, I’ll only repeat the important bits. I don’t care about little details like this. What bothers me is that Hillary Clinton was flogged continuously for weeks after she made her statements by a media that was doing anything in their power to paint her as out of touch and old school in order to get Barack Obama elected. Joe Biden has since done the same thing twice, and Barack Obama himself has done it once.
I’d love to know the reason they get a pass, considering that, at least in Biden’s case, the addition of “danger” to a situation that wasn’t really that dangerous is right in the mold of what got Clinton in trouble during the primaries.
Why have Obama and Biden gotten a pass for doing something that Hillary was crucified for?