Joe Biden gets asked tough questions by local Florida Media, cuts them off, allows no more interviews.

I guess Biden and Bambi do not like being called out on their Marxism. Hee hee

Hal Boedeker the TV Guy reports:

WFTV-Channel 9’s Barbara West conducted a satellite interview with Sen. Joe Biden on Thursday. A friend says it’s some of the best entertainment he’s seen recently. What do you think?

West wondered about Sen. Barack Obama’s comment, to Joe the Plumber, about spreading the wealth. She quoted Karl Marx and asked how Obama isn’t being a Marxist with the “spreading the wealth” comment.

“Are you joking?” said Biden, who is Obama’s running mate. “No,” West said.

West later asked Biden about his comments that Obama could be tested early on as president. She wondered if the Delaware senator was saying America’s days as the world’s leading power were over.

“I don’t know who’s writing your questions,” Biden shot back.

Biden so disliked West’s line of questioning that the Obama campaign canceled a WFTV interview with Jill Biden, the candidate’s wife.

“This cancellation is non-negotiable, and further opportunities for your station to interview with this campaign are unlikely, at best for the duration of the remaining days until the election,” wrote Laura K. McGinnis, Central Florida communications director for the Obama campaign.

McGinnis said the Biden cancellation was “a result of her husband’s experience yesterday during the satellite interview with Barbara West.”

WFTV news director Bob Jordan said, “When you get a shot to ask these candidates, you want to make the most of it. They usually give you five minutes.”

Jordan said political campaigns in general pick and choose the stations they like. And stations often pose softball questions during the satellite interviews.

“Mr. Biden didn’t like the questions,” Jordan said. “We choose not to ask softball questions.”

Jordan added, “I’m crying foul on this one.”

Some advice for Joe Biden and his running mate Bambi, you cannot take the heat, get the hell out of the Kitchen. This is the real world sir, and the media is not always going to be your friend. Not every media outlet is in the tank for you, so, get used to the hardball questions.

Video of this interview is here

Others: NewsBusters.org, The Jawa Report and Stop The ACLU

5 Replies to “Joe Biden gets asked tough questions by local Florida Media, cuts them off, allows no more interviews.”

  1. Tough Questions????? You mean ” MEAN QUESTIONS ” right, Barbara West (WFTV)? It doesn’t seem to me like you wanted to understand what spreading the wealth really meant. Instead of trying to understand the concept you just chose to label it…(Marxist). No matter what would have been said YOUR mind was made up and your goal seemed to be to try to influence the voters to McCain’s Camp.
    I do not think it’s some of the best entertainment….I would have turned to another station.

  2. Good for you Barbara West and WFTV…obviously the far left cannot see the truth to their madness…wish we had more stations like yours who aren’t afraid to tell the truth…keep it coming…hopefully the veil will be lifted from some eyes…

  3. i thought the questions were fair i mean i like biden and oboma but hey this is a free country and there is nothing wrong with asking these questions if you have nothing to hide right?

    they ask questions to spears that are sharp!@ but no one say hey dont do that…and many more people..the people just want the truth on some of this…

  4. if he has nothing to hide, he should answer the question & clarify what exactly obama meant….the coddling that the obama campaign has received by the media is quite disgusting…

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