Moran to Biden: Does Palin's Rhetoric Make You 'Concerned for Obama's Safety?'

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In a gushing look at a day on the campaign trail with Democratic VP nominee Joe Biden for Monday's "Nightline," ABC's Terry Moran charged Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin's rhetoric about Barack Obama has “stoked the anger at Republican rallies, where there have been reports of attendees yelling things like 'terrorist' and 'kill him.'" After that setup, an earnest Moran asked Biden if he now fears for Obama's “safety,” and he pressed Biden to denigrate Palin: “Is she up to the job in your judgment?”

Moran clearly suggested to Biden that Palin's criticism of Obama (“someone who sees America as imperfect enough to pal around with terrorists who targeted their own country”) endangers the Democratic nominee as he followed that clip: “Are you at all concerned in this home stretch for Senator Obama's safety?”

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Biden dismissed Moran's hyperbole, prompting Moran to try again to get Biden to denounce the GOP ticket: “And when we told him about a Time magazine report quoting the Virginia state GOP Chairman, Biden couldn't believe it.”

Moran to Biden: “The Virginia GOP head was quoted by Time magazine as saying to volunteers go out there and draw the connection between Barack Obama and Osama bin Laden.” Biden: “My God, did he really say that?” Moran assured him: “That's quoted in Time magazine.”

Time's Karen Tumulty reported Sunday that Virginia state GOP Chairman Jeffrey M. Frederick made “the connection between Barack Obama and Osama bin Laden: 'Both have friends that bombed the Pentagon.'”

Monday's Washington Post reported the McCain campaign distanced itself from the comparison: “Gail Gitcho, a McCain spokeswoman, also denounced Frederick's remarks, calling them 'not appropriate.'”

Moran's piece on his Sunday with Biden concluded with a soundbite from Biden mocking McCain and Palin, a clip Moran graciously set up:

As the race heads into the final weeks, Biden just keeps talking. Talking to the anxious middle class voters of Scranton and those like them across the country about the man he hopes to govern it.
Moran's final word: “The irrepressible Joe Biden.” And the irrepressible media bias.

Moran teased the segment at the top of the Monday, October 13 program:
Morning Joe. We hit the road with vice presidential nominee Joe Biden in the town he grew up in, as he speaks out about fringe elements at Republican election rallies. It's a Nightline exclusive.
A couple of Moran's friendly descriptions of Biden as the two walked around the Scranton neighborhood Biden left 55 years ago at age ten:
♦ It was a good day to travel with Biden. He was headed to Scranton, Pennsylvania, his birth place and boyhood home and always hotly contested turf in this battleground state.

♦ Biden is a born politician. He's a people person, a toucher, a glad-hander in the best sense of that word.
A transcript, picking up with the second half of the report with Moran interviewing Biden on the steps of Biden's old home and in a regular sit-down, indoor setting:
TERRY MORAN: Biden's got Obama's back, especially now after a couple of weeks of sharp character attacks from John McCain and Sarah Palin.

SARAH PALIN AT RALLY: Our opponent is someone who sees America as imperfect enough to pal around with terrorists who targeted their own country.

MORAN: Attacks that stoked the anger at Republican rallies, where there have been reports of attendees yelling things like “terrorist” and “kill him.”

MORAN TO BIDEN: Are you at all concerned in this home stretch for Senator Obama's safety?

JOE BIDEN: Look, no, I'm not. This is just a really hotly contested election. I don't think they intentionally do it, they encourage people who are really fringe people. I'm not suggesting the rallies are fringe rallies but the guy who yelled from the audience kill him is a fringe person. I mean, that's not a healthy thing in any circumstance.

MORAN: And when we told him about a Time magazine report quoting the Virginia state GOP Chairman, Biden couldn't believe it.

MORAN TO BIDEN: The Virginia GOP head was quoted by Time magazine as saying to volunteers go out there and draw the connection between Barack Obama and Osama bin Laden.

BIDEN: My God, did he really say that?

MORAN: That's quoted in Time magazine.

BIDEN: I don't believe -- I can't believe -- I don't -- I'm surprised John McCain hadn't gone down and whacked the guy with his fist. I mean, I don't think there's a prejudiced bone in John McCain's body. But that kind of stuff is really off the wall. I refuse to let myself believe John McCain had anything to do with that.

MORAN: And what about the other vice presidential candidate? The one grabbing all the attention.

MORAN TO BIDEN: Is she up to the job in your judgment?

BIDEN: That's for the public to decide.

MORAN: You have no opinion on that?

BIDEN: I have an opinion. It's for the public to decide.

MORAN: Well that's a rare moment. Joe Biden not sharing an opinion. And as the race heads into the final weeks, Biden just keeps talking. Talking to the anxious middle class voters of Scranton and those like them across the country about the man he hopes to govern it.

BIDEN: The idea that Sarah Palin and John McCain say this guy is detached when he and his wife have busted their neck for scholarships and loans and worked through school, and particularly in the case of Michelle coming out of a tougher neighborhood, and we're getting a lecture from Republicans about how we are not connected? Give me a break. These guys are about as connected as that SUV is to that stop sign.

MORAN: And for the record, the SUV was not connected to the stop sign at that point. The irrepressible Joe Biden.

—Brent Baker is Vice President for Research and Publications at the Media Research Center


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Hey, MSM, admit it, its Obama that incites, not Palin

Of couse any talk of of killing any candidates will be met with Secret Service and FBI involvement, swift and firm.

That said, the real reason some people are so incited, angry, pissed, and otherwise not happy with Obama has zero to do with what Palin says, and more to do with the facts, which Palin merely points out about Obama. If they were not true about Obama, there would be only laughter, not anger. Think about it.

After 9-11 you simply do not coddle terrorists, PERIOD. But Obama has coddled terrorists (Ayers & Co), criminals (Rezko), "crooks" (Raines), subversives of democracy (ACORN), idle worshippers (Farrakhan's "He is my messiah"), genocidal "maniacs" (his cousin Odinga), the Chicago "mob" (Rezko's pals), and those who incite hatred (Rev Wright). Talk about who incites a mob mentality here!

Maybe Obama represents way too much evil in the minds of people. Even without one word being said by Palin or others, people are incensed that a man with such a vile circle of friends should be president, Senator, or have any public office for that matter. Perhaps in some people's mind for him to be president is akin to:

- letting a friend of Osama bin Laden be president

- letting a friend of Hitler be president

- letting a friend of Charles Manson be president

- letting a friend of Jimmy Hoffa be president

- letting a friend of Timothy McVeigh be president.

Of course the MSM is so elitist and blind, figuring out this simple logic is akin to a Kindergarten student doing a Calculus problem.

And the real truth is that Palin only mentioned Obama's circle of friends, but it is Obama's new "circle of friends" that have actually provided hate speech, including, but not limited to:

- Sarah, the c**t

- "God damn America" and since I am an American, that means I am included in Obama's friend's hate speech

- bullseyes' picture over Palin's face (and dozens of other scummy caricatures)

- SNL's "below the belt" satire

- Obama's own presidental plans, that sound like a total distruction of the US economy, which amounts to an attack on me and you personally, albeit indirectly. Already the Democrats have half-way destroyed the economy with their foolish "affordable housing" madness and they blatant resistance to regulation, which even Bill Clinton said was true. (They should have worked to raise incomes, not give away the ship.)

While I do not have a right to make threats or incite others to make threats or carry them out, I do have every right to be angrier than hell at Obama. I have every right under the Constitution to point out everything I see wrong with Obama and every evil person that Obama has hung out with in the past. I even have a right to say "I believe Obama himself is a very evil man." This right is guaranteed to me by the Constitution. Oh, yes, I know, the MSM does not recognize the Constitution, and would like to destroy it, and in my opinion, so would Obama.

And if one says "Obama pals around with terrorists," and the MSM calls it angry speech, mob mentality, etc, that is just a "re-direction" trick by the MSM to try to stop by free speech rights. Free speech is not free speech if it is not allowed to be offensive, so long as it is not threatening. And when the MSM tries to use their "free press" rights to attempt to squash "free speech" rights, they are practicing "thugocracy" and are even anti-American.

So liberal MSM, exercising my free speech rights, I believe you are the enemy of freedom, life, justice, fair play, and most of all the enemy of most Americans. (enemy in quotes, that is)

 

»→ Terry Moran

Sen. Biden, does it make you feel small that the Clintons are babysitting you these days?

Isn't it like having the Archies open up for The Stones?

Underdog & Pitbull 08

»→ Hide and watch

He can rope-a-dope his way through this with ease.

The clock is ticking.

Underdog & Pitbull 08

I wonder what the media

I wonder what the media would be saying if McCain had not released his medical records.

Why doesn't Moran just do a

Why doesn't Moran just do a commercial for the Obama camp? Then he could just come right out and say what he's thinking instead of tricking someone else to say it.

Why Obama Scares The Crap Out Of Me

 

 

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»→ Because, Clear

Because what Moran is thinking would rate XXX on the erotic scale.

Underdog & Pitbull 08

I had no idea that he was

I had no idea that he was gay! Splains alot.

Why Obama Scares The Crap Out Of Me

 

 

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»→ One can't be sure

Not that there's anything wrong with it.

Underdog & Pitbull 08

MORAN TO BIDEN: Is she up

MORAN TO BIDEN: Is she up to the job in your judgment? 

BIDEN: I have an opinion. It's for the public to decide.

MORAN: Well that's a rare moment. Joe Biden not sharing an opinion.

Uh, maybe he's not sharing because he remembers (even if Moran doesn't) his remarks that Obama wasn't ready to be President.  

Then he'd have to explain how Obama became not only "ready" but the most qualified in a couple of months.

 

Comparison "Not Appropriate" IF you are Supporting Obama

Hey . . find an untruth in the Comparison ? Wonder why Ayers lives in Chicago ? Full of Crooks like himself ?
The Republican Revolution will not be Televised

What a suckup!

MORAN IS A C**NT!

I had the unfortune of

I had the unfortune of actually seeing this last night, I'd never heard of Moran before (I don't watch much TV "news") but after the first softball question (or should we just call them wuss questions) you could tell that here's another reporter in the tank. Probably the most idiotic question was asking if Palin was ready to lead instead of asking the more logical "Do you think Mr. Lack-Of-Experience is ready to lead being at the top of your ticket and all?" I had to laugh at the look on this dope's face who calls himself a reporter and not another Obama campaign volunteer, trying to look all serious like any of his questions actually meant something.

(Sigh) Terry Moron is back

Now you know why I refer to this clown as Terry Moron! He is one of the most egregious of the Obama-worshipers and is in my Media Hall of Shame, which seems to grow with every passing minute. You can add Tom Brokaw, Harry Smith, and just about every major newspaper in this country to that list, by the way.

Barak has no worries

Neither does Biden with the MSM protecting and covering for them.  The Secret Service does a fine job of protecting our Presidents, Vice Presidents and those running for office. 

I would ask if the McCain and Palin and their families have any concerns because the leftist nutroots and their apologists have been worse with their rhetoric and derision.

Moran asked Biden if he now

Moran asked Biden if he now fears for Obama's “safety"

Biden: Yes, that terrorist Ayers worries me, and I'm afraid of ACORN!  Also, I'm terribly afraid that barackamerica is gonna make me go to rev. wright's church.  I'm still very nervous around hillary since I stole her VP slot!  I'm terrified that one of the 'good' reporters will uncover damaging info on obama's college years, after all someone hacked into Palin's email. I'm afraid we might actually win the election; obama does NOT have any experience. Any at all! 

But, mmmmost of allll I am SCARED of Michelle Obama!  That is one ANGRY woman!!!!!!!!!!!!

Boo!