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newsbusters.org - 8/23/2008

Harwood: Biden's Racially-Insensitive Gaffes 'Actually a Strength'

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You know the old software programmer's excuse: "that's not a bug. That's a feature!" John Harwood of CNBC/NYT came up with a political variation on the theme this morning to buff up Joe Biden. Biden's gaffes, including the racially-insensitive ones, are actually . . . "a strength." Harwood was chatting with Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski on a special Morning Joe ...

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MSNBC guest: Biden’s racial gaffes are rather refreshingly politically incorrect, aren’t they?
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... had been forthright and thrown in a bon mot about Barry O being “clean,” the freshness of his candor would have charmed us all and been celebrated as a political strength. Except, of course, by Kos, who once declared that sort of condescension to be career-killing “in a just world.” I wonder if he’s changed his mind. On any other day, this would take the prize for the most embarrassing race-related spin among the commentariat. But not today. Click the image to watch. [image]

Terms of Endearment
protein wisdom — ... that , according to NYT reporter John Harwood , is a sign of strength and character — and, best yet, suggests that Biden is at heart just a regular Joe: He is not somebody who is infused with political correctness, the verbal equivalent of putting his pinkie up when he opens his mouth. So this is what, the way ordinary voters are as well. They’re not always worried about sort of calibrating every single word by “ooh, is this racially insensitive?” That’s something that Joe Biden brings as an asset to the ticket. The gaffes actually show one of his strengths. Now, it will ...

Oh. My. God.
Ace of Spades HQ — Oh. My. God. There is spin, and then there is spin: a CNBC/NYT reporter claims that Joe Biden's occasional bursts of old-school dumb-but-not-hateful racism are actually "refreshing" and "an asset." Need I remind anyone that for months the left has been DaVinci Codebreaking every John McCain advertisement for so-called "coded racism." And they were not praising such "coded racism" as "refreshing" or charming in the least. Rather the opposite. But when Joe Biden is genuinely, pleasantly surprised that an African-American manages to wash himself on occasion, it's a good ...

By His Friends, You Shall Know Him, #2
Snapped Shot — ... From one elitist, Marxist, Socialist, friend of racists to another. See Newsbuster's links here and here for a reminder of how insensitive Joe Biden has shown himself. Nice linkage here even. Moreover, the selection of Biden as VP seems to cast doubt on the entire premise of the Obama campaign which is that experience doesn’t matter. If we are back to including that criteria why not select the more experienced candidate for the top spot? It won’t take very long for the McCain camp to point out that Obama’s own underwhelming record ...

Let the Spinning Begin!
The Sundries Shack — ... This morning New York Times reporter John Harwood showed up on Obama-NBC to explain why Biden’s “clean” comment about Obama for which we had to apologize profusely doesn’t really matter at all. ...

So . . . Biden
RedState: Conservative News and Community — ... (and consider the desperate and fatuous excuses for Biden's comments discussed here if you want to have yourself a good laugh). Take a gander at ...

Biden's Foot in Mouth Disease as an Asset
Moonbattery — ... It can't be easy, spinning the selection of Joe Biden as anything but a boneheaded mistake. But Democrat hacks have a talking point for everything. Here's John Harwood of CNBC and the New York Times, explaining why Biden's racially insensitive gaffes — which would have ended his career long ago if he were a Republican — are actually a positive quality: ...