Biden Claims Conservative Journalist Broke Senate Rules With Contentious 'Rape' Interview
Vice President Joe Biden's office has lodged a complaint with the Senate press gallery over a contentious interview about his rape and jobs bill comments with Human Events' Jason Mattera last week that ended up going viral.
The Hill reported Tuesday:
Biden aides asked whether Senate rules were broken in the wake of the contentious exchange between the vice president and the reporter.
Jason Mattera, who works for Human Events, a conservative magazine, used a pretext to catch Biden off guard in a Senate hallway and grill him on claims the vice president has made about jobs legislation.
What was the pretext?
As the vice president left the Russell caucus room, Mattera weaved his way through the entourage, shook Biden’s hand and asked him to pose for a photo. While shaking Biden’s hand, Matter [sic] asked him if he felt “regret using a rape reference to describe Republican opposition to the president’s bill.”
So you're not allowed to ask someone a question while you're shaking his hand? Certainly not if you're a conservative journalist.
In reality, this likely wouldn't have gotten much attention if Biden hadn't blown his answers:
After initially balking at the questions, Biden stood by his argument that if Republicans continue to block the Democratic jobs bill, “murder will continue to rise, rape will continue to rise, all crimes will continue to rise.”
The Washington Post’s fact-checker ripped Biden’s claims over the weekend, giving the vice president “four Pinocchios” and writing that he “should know better than to spout off half-baked facts in service of a dubious argument.”
For his part, Mattera admits he used a pretext to get to Biden, but says media bias might be behind the complaint:
“ABC and CBS have done undercover sting operations and have done them for decades. The fact that a conservative publication goes after a public official who was misrepresenting himself and a Senate bill to the public and tries to get an answer from him, that’s great,” he said in an interview Monday.
Indeed.
For those interested, here's the interview at the heart of the controversy:
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Translation:
Submitted by NC Cop on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 9:53am.
"I was made to look like a fool and I didn't like it. How dare a member of the press ask me a non-softball question. It's outrageous!!!"
Slight modification....
Submitted by Pilgrim1949 on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 10:03am.
"I was shown -- yet once again! -- to be a fool..." And fool/tool Crazy Uncle Joey is totally oblivious to it, which makes it all the more enjoyable.
Ah, Lunchbox-for-brains Biden, another of the Dems' gifts that keeps on gaffing.
Makes Jackie Gleason's "Ralph Cramden" character in the old Honeymooners series look eloquent in comparison when he gets cornered about something and, fishing for an explanation, goes into his "hummanah hummanah hummanah" mode.
Ya gotta love it!!!
"Ye canne change the laws of physics....." but some politicians believe that with the right legislation you can pretend they don't really apply to your own pet projects...
Congratulation, Joe ...
Submitted by Tom Blumer on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 10:07am.
... on keeping what you said in the news.
He's not too bright
Submitted by Blonde on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 11:42am.
LOL, Tom...I thought the exact same thing when I read that link on Drudge today. Que'lle idiot...if he wanted it to go away, he should have stayed quiet and let the media sweep it under the rug for him.
Can you imagine what it must be like to be on his staff? (Like the young lady who cut off his stupidity, move along boss). I mean, we've all had bosses we've hated, but to actually have to work for this putz, and show him the deference which he obviously demands (DON"T SCREW AROUND WITH ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!).
Biden is truly weapon's grade stoopid.
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 200 (and Counting)
This is truth to power, Joe
Submitted by optimist on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 10:08am.
Your side loves truth to power. So have a cup of STHU.
Do "Senate rules" allow aggressive threatening of reporters?
Submitted by SickofLibs on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 10:12am.
.
Don'ts grew with me
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 10:18am.
Biden doesn't remember what he said yesterday. How can he be expected to defend it?
Senility
Submitted by djm159 on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 2:48pm.
Biden is a senile old goat without the sense God gave a goose. What a joke he is. The old adage "better to be silent and thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt" was written for Gramps Biden. At least it takes the focus off the Marxist in Chief.
"Don't screw around with me"
Submitted by Cactus Kurt on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 10:15am.
Mattera had the proper credentials... nuf sed. It didn't stop Sheriff Joe from poking his finger in Mattera's chest and threatening "don't screw around with me"... close to being an assault. Hey Joe, if you can't stand the heat...
Touchy, aren't they?
Submitted by motherbelt on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 11:25am.
Is anyone else having a flashback to THIS?
"Hey Joe"....
Submitted by bigdaddy on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 10:29am.
..."Where You Goin' With Those Plugs In Yo' Head"...
If it is true
Submitted by desert3030 on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 10:34am.
Diverting money to create Sharia governments in Libya, and Eygpt has prevented how much domestic spending?
A liberal socialist gets
Submitted by jessieH on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 10:47am.
A liberal socialist gets caught in a whopper of a lie and calls foul. Maybe they should just stop lying to the people, first. Biden sounds like Al Gore, with the lies he's spewing. The sooner we get rid of Obama, the sooner we get rid of Biden, the bull s**ter.
This heart needs a second chance................................
Submitted by Tomorama on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 11:05am.
The media can't possibly report this story now considering they avoided it in the first place, can they?
IF they did report it, the headlines would be "Conservative reporter breaks protocol and is challenged by VP".
Of course disregarding the actual BRUTAL rhethoric, the FACTS that these crimes have gone down for the last 4 plus years and the funding has actually been going up for the last 4 plus years.
I think we call them uh, uh, uh, uh, uh lies.
oooooooooooohhhhh. Jason is
Submitted by DaChew on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 11:48am.
oooooooooooohhhhh. Jason is so going to get reported to Attack Watch!!!
This had me laughing too.....surprised you missed it, NS
Submitted by Blonde on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 11:49am.
The "journalistic ethics" (man, if quotes were ever necessary, that would be it!) expert, in explaining where an ambush interview would be okay, used a MENTAL INSTITUTION.
Geisler said a clear-cut case where using a pretext would be appropriate would be if a journalist had solid reason to believe patients at a mental hospital were being abused but had no way to gain access to the scene without dissembling.
When speaking of Joe Biden.....this is the first thing that comes to her head, a MENTAL INSTITUTION?
Maybe I'm the only one who found that to be really funny, particularly in light of the fact that The Hill was trying to spin this whole thing in a positive light for Plugs (whose plugs were obviously implanted too deeply and have affected Old Joe's cognition).
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 200 (and Counting)
Pretext
Submitted by Schofield Kid on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 4:37pm.
How about a pretext where an NBC reporter (forgot his name) pretends to be a 13 year old girl who's interested in sex with an older man just to get a "gotcha" moment on camera? Does that fall into the mental institution criteria? You've got to be kidding!! reporters lie all the time to get access.
ChickaBOOMer: Joe Biden's Rape Scene
Submitted by StewartIII on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 12:01pm.
Joe Biden's Rape Scene
http://chickaboomer.blogspot.com/2011/10/joe-bidens-rape-scene.html
"Stand up Chuck", Who is the
Submitted by LAM SON 719 on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 12:15pm.
"Stand up Chuck", Who is the bigger idiot Biden, or obama for letting this moron loose in public?
You tell us, Biden
Submitted by CobraMan on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 12:32pm.
You tell us, Biden: Were the Senate's Press Gallery rules broken, in a PUBLIC HALLWAY? Once you have left the Press Gallery and are in a public hallway, the rules no longer apply.
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus. The US Supreme Court
Or Anwar al-Awlaki.
I find this frightening
Submitted by Radical1979 on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 1:58pm.
A vice-president is challenging a reporter for asking him a question? There was no disrespect given Biden, he simply didn't like the question. How far will this administration go to silence it's critics?
Rad,
Submitted by Agnostic on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 1:59pm.
What critics?
Not the first time
Submitted by jon_torlin on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 2:39pm.
This wasn't the first time Biden had a run in with a reporter for a question he didn't like.
There was a TV interview he gave one time with a reporterette in Orlando back in 2008. Here's the link for it:
Orlando You Joking?
So for him, this isn't new. But it is troubling.
-Jon
Got to love his contradictions.
Submitted by CobraMan on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 7:00pm.
You've got to love the contradictions Biden used as "arguments" in the video. First he claimed that "we didn't spend a dime registering people" and then claimed that "we registered people ourselves."
Hay, Biden, if your campaign held a registration drive to , you know, register people to vote, as you just admitted, then, obviously, you spent far more than a "dime" doing so. Or are you claiming that, no, it didn't cast a dime to hire people to register those others? The people who sought out and "registered" those voters weren't volunteers, you know. They were PAID to their services, paid by the Obama campaign, who also covered the costs of the materials, and transportation, needed in that registration drive.
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus. The US Supreme Court
Or Anwar al-Awlaki.
The tolerance of the left
Submitted by c5then on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 3:09pm.
Once again they show they have no tolerance for the first amendment nor for anyone who dares ask them a tough question. They especially have zero tolerance for openness and transparency.
As a bonus, Crazy Joe Biden shows that he has no understanding of the difference between hyperbole and reality.
Madison and Jefferson and Franklin built a Republic - Roberts killed it!
And, of course...
Submitted by packman on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 3:24pm.
the White House is now obsessed with going after the reporter instead of trying to clear the record about what ol' Plugs-Boy actually said. Biden is nothing more than a chief dufus shill for the ZEROBama administration. Got caught with his pants down, and boy oh boy you can hear the whining all the way to his finger in the chest. "Don't screw with me...???...I don't know 'bout you other NB'ers, but being an ex-Marine, I don't take kindly to people pokin' their fingers in my chest. But that's more like "Don't Tread On Me, Dude..."
"...Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread..." ~Thomas Jefferson
Who Knew Biden was a Hermaphrodite?
Submitted by Tugboat Phil on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 4:14pm.
I knew he was a d**k. Now he's showing himself to be a p***y too.
plugs is worried
Submitted by RDWINGS11 on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 9:34pm.
joe "plugs foot in mouth" biden should be more worried about his and odumbos chances about staying enployed after next november .
Awfully thin-skinned, isn't he
Submitted by Rousse on Wed, 10/26/2011 - 2:12am.
Awfully thin-skinned, isn't he. Actually, I think Biden has a blood vessel leaking in his brain. It might be time to consider who Obama would pick as a new vice-president.
Technically Correct
Submitted by Avitar on Wed, 10/26/2011 - 2:18am.
But with a hundred interviews a day violating the rules it is going to be tough to make the case for the one interview.