Where’s the Mockery of Joe ‘Dubya’ Biden?
It was less than a month before this mistake that Biden said he would tell his family members to avoid confined spaces and not to travel through the airlines due to the swine flu infections that were causing a near hysteria among the media and American public. If the average American wasn’t panicked then, they probably were after seeing that quote.
It’s almost as if the comedians are so shocked by each gaffe that they forget about the previous one, and instead of making jokes about the pattern, they make some light quips about the most recent trip-up and repetitive jokes about how cool, fly, glorious — or any other positive adjective — Obama is. Occasionally they’ll make a joke about the overly high expectations people have of him, but even that is a joke highlighting his positive qualities.
From saying that then-Senator Obama was the “first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy” to making the type of ethnic-based jokes that today’s anti-P.C., South Park generation loves, such as when he said, “You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin’ Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I’m not joking,” Biden is a ready-made redux of Bush-era comedy. Yet it seems no one is willing to make the comparison, as if Bush owns the arrogant, wanna-be action hero persona.
While Bush was derided for his acts of bravado like getting in a flight suit with a premature “Mission Accomplished” banner above him, Biden not so humbly mentions how he was “shot at” in Iraq. “Shot at” quickly turned into “I was near where a shot landed,” as in he was in the Green Zone and an enemy projectile landed outside the building. With that show of manliness failing, he later boasted about how his helicopter was “forced down” over the terrorist “superhighway” of the mountainous Afghanistan-Pakistan border, conveniently leaving out the unflattering fact that the helicopter went down because of snow.
He’s told a wheelchair-bound state senator to stand up at a rally. He’s received a disapproving father-like look from President Obama for saying, “My memory isn’t as good as Justice Roberts.” He said during his introduction as Obama’s vice-presidential pick that the next president would be “Barack America.” He said that “‘jobs’ is a three-letter word.” He’s referred to FDR’s appearance on TV to address the stock market crash that caused the Great Depression, an event that occurred in 1929 when FDR was not president and TVs weren’t in private homes.
“Do you know the website number?”
“If we do everything right, if we do it with absolute certainty, there’s still a 30 percent chance we’re going to get it wrong.”
With all this, the elite comedian class depicts Bush, and not Biden, as a moron? As Biden would say, “Gimme a f—ing break!”
Joe Who?
All one has to do is look at the a** kissing performance put on by the oh so hip Wanda Sykes. When given the prime opportunity the self proclaimed “In Your Face” Sykes totally wussed out at the White House Correspondents Dinner which I’m sure devastated her In Your Face “Life Style” friends in the gay community.
I believe someone need to change the first paragraph on her Wiki page which reads,
“She is known for her blunt comedic observations on current events, the differences between the sexes and races, and the human condition.”
Yeah right, all she did was give a performance that Lewinski would be proud of, maybe we should coin a new phrase for Wanda….
umm, Joey Bidden on “twitter” is unpayable, love his humor
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Joe Biden has a few screws loose. He has said things in public that are very disturbing. What’s more, he has said them while presumably sober! It is scary to contemplate how he might behave with a few alcoholic beverages under his belt. Satirist like John Stewart claim to be iconoclastic and willing to speak truth to power. They are obviously fibbing. It is clear that they are afraid to make legitimate fun of the Obama administration.
There are a couple of reasons Joe may be the most ignored VP ever. Outside of Delaware, the rest of stopped listening to him in about 1992. He talks too much, never gets the facts just right, or shares too much. Expectations for him are low. Way low. Wait, that last part sounds like….
Another reason is that comedians aren’t as funny as they used to be. Snark is in. Snide is in. Mockery is in (but only for some).
If the lack of self awareness and restraint are funny, this guy is a HOOT. Bagdad had Bob, the Prezzident has Joe.
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Ryan Mauro: Nice recap of Biden gaffs but this can’t possibly come as a surprise to anyone who reads Pajamas. Hollywood for the most part is in the tank for the democrats and 95% of what gets produced for consumption whether it be film or comedy is biased heavily left.
There are real human beings running around in America that actually believe we are safer with Biden as VP than Cheney. Cheney gave up many things to defend America. Biden gives up humor. Bush also defended America. Obama runs around the world apologizing for it.
Hollywood et al will never figure that out. They don’t realize that freedom of speech is gone except the freedom to agree with Obama.
But lets be realistic. 55% Plus voted for democrats so Hollywood is just playing to their audience.
You’ll notice his gaffes are almost always self-aggrandizing leaks. He’s a very insecure man who needs constant affirmation from his peers. Not a healthy quality for a supposed leader. They tend to be very defensive, harsh and intolerant due to that insecurity with themselves.
PS. Ever think he blew the bunker’s location cuz they kept locking him up in there to shut him up? Then he said it was a library. That’s probably what they told him. Ha!
the right needs a propaganda comedy arm just as the left does. It obviously sends a message and influences people tremendously. We could do comedy a heck of a lot better than those fools.
No, Biden has to be a couple notches above Dan Quayle. Quayle is remembered for two things: misspelling potato, and picking on Murphy Brown. He generally kept his mouth shut – or was ignored – otherwise. Every time this clown Biden opens his mouth, something stupid – or possibly legally forbidden – comes out. He will become a major league embarrassment to the administration before it’s over.
I never thought Bush was dumb – but this guy? Yeah. I feel sorry for him.
it is one thing to make fun of dubya’s gaffes because that is what they were.
however, biden realy believes that what he says are the facts.
he will debate you to the end. with an iq like joe’s, you would be silly to make fun of him.
It’s an article of faith with the MSM that, whenever a (liberal) Democratic Senator runs for POTUS or VOTUS he automatically becomes “The Smartest Man In The Senate”. In the past, this appellation has been applied to Al Gore, John Edwards, and John Kerry. When Joe Biden ended up on the ticket, suddenly he was- you guessed it- “The Smartest Man In The Senate”.
(That term was not applied the The Self-Exalted One because the MSM was too busy claiming he was a higher life form far beyond mere human capabilities. I’m not sure if they thought he was the Messiah, or that his real name was Kal-El.)
The small problem with this “irrefutable truth” is that every one of these “Smartest Men” has been revealed, by their own actions, to be both highly ideological and dangerously stupid. Whether you’re talking about Gore’s neo-Luddite fanaticism, Edwards’ habitual lying about his assignations and finances, Kerry’s compulsive lying about practically everything, and now Biden’s repeated excursions into Cloud-Cuckoo Land, the fact is that either the Democrats’ leaders really are not “the smartest men” in the upper chamber, or said chamber is inhabited solely by gibbering dingbats. The only thing which these “geniuses” all lay claim to is their radical-left social/political ideology; which is apparently the only thing that qualifies as “intelligence” in the eyes of the media.
Maybe we should demand that all candidates for the Number One and Two slots, no matter what party they may be from, be able to pass the same tests for mental stability we give to police officers. After all, POTUS and VOTUS have control of equipment substantially more dangerous than a sidearm. (It’s worth noting that the supposedly “moronic” George W. Bush had to pass just such tests before being trusted with an F-102A jet interceptor, which was nuclear-capable.)
My guess is, the majority of the “smart” Democratic leaders wouldn’t make the cut.
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The MSC (mainstream comedians) went for the cheap and easy laughs with their attacks on Bush & company, but with the Obamadministration the lot of them are exposed as gutless wonders and back-ceek kissers. Make that MSGC– the big G stands for gutless.
In a new book, “I’ll make you an Offer you can’t Refuse”, the author was a successful, money-making bookmaker. He compares the way he did business and the way the US. government does theirs.
What is most surprising to him is how economically-challenged the Obama administration is. Obama has not surrounded himself with associates who know how to run a business. His forays into AIG and GM are going to be disastrous for him and our country.
Most analysts and reporters know this and don’t go down that path with him for fear it would be thought they don’t support him.
We truly have an emperor with no clothes as POTUS. No one portrays it better than his VP, Joe Biden.
yEs , he’s BELOW Dan Quayle, who made one mistake. Biden makes one a week.
First you’re not allowed to make fun of this administration. You don’t remember all the lefty comedians trying to say he was just “too cool”.
Second, biden is there to make boobama look smart.
“He’s referred to FDR’s appearance on TV to address the stock market crash that caused the Great Depression, an event that occurred in 1929 when FDR was not president and TVs weren’t in private homes.”
This is my personal favorite, hands down. Can you imagine the backlash if Palin had said the same thing?
Biden is there as assassination insurance. No one would want Biden as President. No one…
Joe Biden is a Democrat. The MSM always protects its own including incompetent nincompoops.
Saturday Night Live, at least, has poked fun at Biden a few times.
The First Rule of ObamaComedy Club: Nobody laughs at Biden’s gaffes.
Rule #2: Never talk about the existence of the Comedy Czar.
Rule #3: Memorize and then burn the rest of the rules, amendments, and amendments to the amendments.
I have come to the conclusion Joe’s gaffes are a clever act. He is pretending to be the “crazy uncle” so he can spit out the truth about Obama and his administration unfettered.
Stand up Chuck!
Some of them (the intellectually honest ones, not sycophantic hacks like Leibowitz and Sykes) may well be afraid of being “black” listed. Remember how ObeyMe’s brownshirts went after the radio stations that dared utter an unkind word against their Lord and Master? Not to mention the ostracism they’d receive from the Hollywood Elites.
Not that I am in any way condoning their cowardice, of course. If they would lead by example and speak out against these d-bags, more would be willing to follow suit. As yet, the only people in Hollywood with the testicular fortitude to stand up to these weenies is Kelsey Grammar, Jon Voight, Gary Sinese, and Angie Harmon.
Most of the leftist Dimocrats I know are dour, frowning, overly serious people. They could never laugh at themselves or a fellow leftist for saying something absurd. In fact, I’ve noticed that few ever emit a real guffaw or belly laugh, just snide snickers as the echo-chamber media or Hollyweird “entertainers” offer their simplistic and predictable Bush-bashing lines. And I believe DImocrats’ unwillingness to laugh at themselves eminates from chronic insecurity, the same insecurity as the Bumbling Braggart, Joe Biden himself, who perfectly personifies one of my late mother’s favorite lines, “He’s so dumb, he doesn’t even know he’s dumb.”
Biden is “a gaffe factory just a few notches below Dan Quayle.”
Are you serious?
It took Quayle 4 years to rack up the modest number of real gaffes (as opposed to all the fabricated ones from comedic lists and sketch shows) that he had. Biden has more than topped that list in a couple of months in office.
Are you holding your notch-stick upside-down?
Hear hear, Eddie. Not to mention that none of Quayle’s “gaffes,” as I recall, could have cost people their lives, including his own.
I mean, seriously. Telling the whole damn world where the VP Secret Saferoom is? What’s next, putting his social security number on a billboard WITHOUT getting Life-Lock?? One must wonder how many secret service guys are detailed with the specific task of keeping Biden from running up and down the halls of the WH with a pair of scissors, point-up.
Remember when the MSM all thought Sarah Palin was to stupid to be president. I agree Biden is just assignation insurance.
Another proud day for America. He is one of our “leaders”?!
Great artical and observations. Every word is on target. And what is really funny, if you go to England, the english spell potato with an e at the end (potatoe) and they do the same with tomato, so I guess either all the english or americans cant spell.
The mockery of Joe Biden is Joe Biden. George Bush mispoke while saying very important things. The only person in politics who says less important things than Joe Biden is Al Gore though Jimmy Carter come close.
Obama gets a higher bowling score than Biden but not by much.
The only test of intelligence to the left is the degree of faith in powerful, central government.
That’s it, the whole ball of wax, the sole criteria. If you have that you are intelligent, if not you are either a dope or you are evil, [Cheney for example, whose boots liberals are not fit to lick].
The narrowness & ignorance of this blind and unjustified faith, it’s total blankness towards history and our own past, marks a stupidity breathtaking in it’s extent & danger.
Wait.. you missed the Biden claim where he told the audience that he regularly had one on one chats with President Bush and often chastized him for choices. Proving what a big man he is!! Never mind these one on one meetings didn’t happen.
Why is it whenever Joe Biden puts his hairy foot into his mouth it’s called a gaffe, but if Sarah Palin so much as trips over a syllable it’s touted as yet another example of her unbridled hubris? (It’s a rhetorical question because we all know the answer!)
#24 Biden is taking a page out of mobster Chin Gigante’s book by playing the “Oddfather”? LOL
Comedians like Jay Leno are cowards. I don’t bother with him and haven’t for a while. Imagine a new President and he’s refuses to poke fun at him. Why are you on stage then? Retire. I don’t watch him for free and certainly wouldn’t plunk down $100 a ticket in Vegas. Maybe he’s afraid of being booed by his knee jerk liberal audience if he makes fun of the new administration. Bill Maher has another knee jerk liberal audience. They remind me of a bunch of seals flapping their flippers together and barking “OOH OOH OOH”. I’d give both audiences a bucket of chum.
Well, I think Obama realized early in the game that he wanted a non-existent VP. Biden has nothing to input, and is kept away from cameras. If he were allowed a freer reign there would be more opportunities for comedic gold, but alas… That said, conservatism isn’t hip, and can’t be made hip. You don’t get to look good doing it. It won’t get you the chicks. That’s OK with me. We are in the execrable position we are in BC we abandoned our brains during the Bush years because we were winning.If this administration was not going to be so deadly to our republic I’d say we need to be exiled, but again, alas…the years ahead look dark.
The so called “comedy” coming out of Hollywood and in the MSM is getting more nasty and disgusting by the day. For example, several months ago as I was switching TV channels, I happened to stumble on a “roast” of, I believe, Carl Reiner . Many familiar faces and many unfamiliar, but the constant was the low, extraordinarily raunchy and disgusting “humor,” mostly from a homosexual viewpoint; the stuff they apparently thought was funny would “gag a maggot.”
Then, we have all of the comedians of the Left i .e. almost every comedian there is—some intentional, some unintentional–with the full time comedians afraid to attack their leftist comrades, for fear they will lose their meal tickets. Easy attacks against straw man Republican targets to please their fellow lefties, no stomach for attacking the very target rich Democratic field of Obama, Biden, Waxman, Frank, Nadler, Waters, Nepolitano, Murtha and Pelosi.
Finally, it did occur to me that while it is probably easy to make fun of someone who has a quirk or two, it might be harder to make fun of someone, like Biden, who is all “quirk.”
There would not be a Democrat party without the mainstream media propping it up.
As long as there is a disconnect between those who think they are funny by insulting people, and those who are insulted – those who do not want to get
it, will not get it.
Good article Ryan. It isn’t so much Biden’s gaffes as it is the media’s over-hyping of gaffs made by conservatives. Look at the Palin/Biden debate performance. Biden was in fantasyland. Hamas in West Bank? France in Lebanon? He was making up things for anyone who knew the slightest bit about about foreign policy. Did the media call him on it? Of course not. But they did make fun of Palin for saying “Talabani,” thinking she was talking about the Taliban (she was referring to Jalal Talabani, the President of Iraq).
It’s so biased it isn’t even funny.
Joe Biden = Barney Fife.
What an actor!
“”"”"”"Satirist like John Stewart claim to be iconoclastic”"”"”"”
You mean Jonathan Leibowitz. “Jon Stewart” is Leibowitz’s made-up WASP-y sounding name. He’s apparently embarassed at being Jewish — a mindset that I thought went out of fashion with Tony Curtis.
Biden is Obama’s life insurance.
Actually, Biden has been the target of comics, and not just on rare occasions.
Some members of the “liberal” press are starting to get antsy with the Obama handlers’ control-freak level management of the news, and this may be a building trend. When you also take into account the high likelyhood of massive fraud and corruption in the near future — thanks to the enormous sums of money being tossed about with little oversight and the retributionists mentality of Obama and company — we may expect a lot more laughs at the expense of this administration, including a good deal of it aimed at President Urkleprompter.
Maybe the reason they are not mocking Biden is the same reason *nice people don’t mock a physically disabled person. (*which of course still leaves open the question as to why his BOSS isn’t making fun of him, since we know from obama’s public appearances that he DOES mock physically disabled people)
When the football jock trips and falls down the stairs, it’s funny (because everyone knows his normal physical excellence). When the disabled person trips or stumbles, they are actually doing the very best they can and it’s not nice to laugh at them.
When Biden says stupid things, it’s just not funny. He really is that dumb.
I never knew Biden could do ‘Jazz Hands’?!
Oh and he joked about Obama’s teleprompter breaking:
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/05/teleprompter-fa.html
Does this guy realize he’s supposed to be the Vice President?
A . . . HEARTBEAT . . . AWAY!
Here’s what I don’t get: Biden is such a goof, he’s almost a caricature of what a dumb-ass the VP position is . . . so, here’s the question: Is The One really astute, and knows how to pick the perfect moron as his side kick, or did he not get it?
The only rational answer is . . . he knows. But I still don’t get it. But hey, I’m just a dumb old honky.
P.S. #48 RB:
Not until there are bread lines.
Delia, I think he does, but he rather would like to be fired out, cuz the government he is supposed to represent is NON-existing
A heartbeat away from the Presidency is NOT funny!
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I’m convinced that, narcissistic egotist that he is, The one didn’t want anyone in his clique’ who might conceivably be smarter than he is. (or at least, smarter than he imagines himself to be.) Also, Biden shares most of The One’s “pet hates”, guns, religion, etc.; once on the Senate floor, Biden called the Assault Weapons Ban “religious dogma”, complete with Khrushchev- style podium-pounding (but with his fist, not his shoe).
But I strongly suspect that the main reason he chose Biden was as a message- or maybe threat- to the American people, to wit;
“You’d all better hope I stay healthy- how long do you think you’d last with this doofus in charge?”
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The only possible scenario that would be worse than Biden as president would be Pelosi.
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I’ve thought about Biden as president.
Would that actually mean Rahm Emanuel would be president?
Or would it mean some “old Democrats” who actually love the United States of America would “run Biden for the benefit of the nation”?
that Joe”I LYNCHED CLARENCE THOMAS”Biden he really does make Dan Q. look SMART!
when the so-called comedians see the taxes go up like a kite in a windstorm that may give them something to joke about. now they are trying to make osama obama jomama look smart. they’ll soon find out the yoke’s on them, and as far as the king of jive and the tax cheating five go, there fall from grace may come sooner then later. one can still hope to get the last laugh.
eon writes: “The small problem with this “irrefutable truth” is that every one of these “Smartest Men” has been revealed, by their own actions, to be both highly ideological and dangerously stupid.”
I was angry at Biden for being part of the Obamination Ilkinstration. Then the gaffes. And more stumbling and bumbling. And I realized Biden is actually a man apart. No one in Obama`s court really takes Biden seriously. What`s more, I believe he was purposefully chosen as a non-entity running mate who would not be so bold as to ever challenge Obama. Obama likes it that way. Nah, doubt Obama expected this many gaffes, tho. Not that he is one to talk. He still can`t figure out the difference between Memorial Day and Veteran`s Day, I will give him that much credit.But back to Biden. I think he has now realized that he may be vice-president but he is no playaa. And he is frustrated.So the gaffes tend to fly. I would feel a bit sorry for him but for the high office he occupies. Embarrassing for America. And back to your excerpt above. Please be careful about placing “ideological” and “stupid” in the same category because they don`t belong together necessarily nor most of the time. It is usually better to have an ideology rather than just run on raw emotion and feeling. Sure, I guess some folks have stupid ideologies but my point is that most liberals have NO ideology and cannot tell you WHY they think the way they do. They have NO ideology then. Now, the liberal elite do have an ideology and they know you won`t like it if they are found out. Notice how most liberals, even elites, have trouble just speaking in a direct fashion. Or like Obama they ta and ho ahh and hmmm. Reason is that they are lying and they know it. It is easier to tell the truth. Much smoother. It takes more energy to lie. Only a few reach the level of smooth lying. Take Hitler, for example. Or Jim Jones. I find that on balance there are more folks on the right who can speak smoothly and they are just normal folk like me (I would hope I am normal).It is easier to be a true conservative because most of the time you are just telling the truth. So I say to you that an ideology is usually a good thing to have. That is, a dogma. Without some idea/ology, how does one really function??
I sometimes listen to Biden and wonder if he’s trying to tell us something. Loved, loved, loved his comment when his teleprompter blew over during a speech “what will I tell the President? What will he do?” My husband and I nearly died laughing….Honestly he’s a doof but I’d take him over his boss at this point.
At least Joe Biden has a command of both the English language and knows how to use a teleprompter. Probably knows how to spell potato too!
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At least Joe Biden has a command of both the English language and knows how to use a teleprompter. Probably knows how to spell potato too!
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Let’s hope he knows how many states are in the US too unlike the Prez.
Nancy Pelosi’s Plan To Take Over The World: Talk Biden into taking a suicide bomb into a meeting with President Obama.
Assasination insurance, I like that.
You are all laboring under the assumption that The Messiah is actually in charge. I think he’s just reading the lines given to him and making the moves in reacton to the puppet strings attached to his skinny cigarette- smoking body. He is in debt to the puppetmasters and must do as he has been indoctrinated and told to do and say and believe. When he sees the destruction that is being wrought, and might wish to rebel and head in the Right direction, he will still have to pay the Piper.
We are in the more enviable positon because no matter how bad our economic lives become and the loss of our Constitution guaranteed rights accelerate, we can actually give voice to our own beliefs and thoughts, without repercussions. Well, there might be some repercusiions, but what’s a few years in prison or eternity in the cemetery- at least we were our own person.
Back to the puppetmasters. I’m not as educated and well read as most of you and don’t even attempt to figure out who is really in charge, but it sure ain’t our visible elected “leaders”.
And don’t even joke around about Pelosi becoming President. That is just too frightening.
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I define “ideology” as a belief system in which the believer holds that there is only One Right Way To Do Anything. Perhaps a better term would be “dogma”. Within such a belief system, all decision-making paths tend to be self-referential, i.e., not “what do the circumstances call for based on evidence?”, but “what does the doctrine say to do in these circumstances?”
You are correct in stating that most “progressives” are unfamiliar with the process of critical thought, and in fact deeply resent anyone saying that they should think before they act. Their self-image is that they are inherently “deep thinkers”, and therefore are also inherently capable of superior reasoning compared to the masses they so despise. Hence, they do not need to think, because since they’ve already “worked it out” in creating their belief system; all they need to do is follow the tenets of same. In this context, “thought” is almost heretical- it means you’re second-guessing the beliefs.
The parallel with some extreme religious beliefs (and I include some Christian ones, like “Creationism”, etc.) are obvious. In each case, you are dealing with a belief held on purely emotional grounds, often in defiance of facts, logic, and even common sense (the most misnamed attribute in human experience, as it is unfortunately not all that “common”).
The main reason I use “ideology” is that it’s the term “progressives” prefer, just as they now would rather be called “progressives” as opposed to “liberals”. They jettison names and terms as soon as they realize they have made them “a by-word and a hissing”, as E.E. “Doc” Smith would say. I do, however, find it fascinating that every now and then, one will slip and use the word “dogma” to describe their beliefs, as Biden did in the assault-weapon debate.
Because the “progressives’” favorite accusation against their opponents, in any debate, is that those opponents are “dogmatic”; as opposed to their own perfect, “forward-thinking”, “innovative”, “open-minded” selves.
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The Daily Show gets Biden plenty, as well as Obama. I guess that counts for nothing?