Day By Day© by Chris Muir.

October 27, 2008

Obama Campaign 'Punishes' Television Station for Hard-Hitting Interview

On FSM today:

A particularly pointed interview of Joe Biden by Barbara West of Orlando’s WFTV-Channel 9 last Thursday resulted in the Obama campaign canceling an interview of Biden’s wife Jill. Why? The reason given by the campaign was “an unprofessional interview [of Joe Biden]…both combative and woefully uninformed about simple facts.”

West touched upon a number of topics that have been deemed verboten by the rest of the mainstream media, including whether Obama’s talk of “spreading the wealth” to Joe the Plumber was a “crushing political blunder.” Her follow up question to that was, “How is Sen. Obama not being a Marxist if he intends to spread the wealth around?” Biden’s initial response was to ask if the question was a joke.

Er, no, Joe, it wasn’t a joke. Americans really want to know.

Read it all here.