Chris Wallace to Napolitano and Sebelius: Um, is Biden a crackpot?
posted at 6:17 pm on May 3, 2009 by Allahpundit
A goodie from this morning’s Fox News Sunday courtesy of Greg Hengler. Think of this as a blunter — and therefore meaner and funnier — version of the question Tapper used to make Gibbs squirm. We all know what the correct answer is, and we all know that Sebelius can’t give that answer. The suspense mounts: Can she figure out a tactful way to avoid saying, “Yes, he’s a moron”?
Incidentally, after warning Americans about the dangers of confined spaces during this time of non-epidemic, Vice President Crackpot hopped the Amtrak home to Delaware yesterday. A symbolic show of support for the country’s transportation industry after having needlessly maligned it? Or is he just so goofy that he forgot his own alarmist advice?
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Napolitano thinks she’s in the running for SCOTUS?
artist on May 3, 2009 at 6:20 PM
He should have asked Napolitano if she is a crackpot.
Mark1971 on May 3, 2009 at 6:21 PM
Shouldn’t he be asking Biden if Napolitano and Sebelius are crackpots?
I would.
artist on May 3, 2009 at 6:21 PM
Joe Biden must be the only person in America who isn’t a crackpot according to Janet Napolitano’s exacting standards.
Buy Danish on May 3, 2009 at 6:22 PM
To quote our President……Biden is special. Special Olympics, that is.
/sarc
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on May 3, 2009 at 6:22 PM
Rahm told him to take the train or else…
Wethal on May 3, 2009 at 6:27 PM
WWJBS?
We could turn this into a game for the next 3 years and 9 months -
What
Would
Joe
Biden
Say?
Wander on May 3, 2009 at 6:27 PM
I’m voting for goofy. It’s consistent with all the other gibberish that’s come out of his leaking skull.
AUINSC on May 3, 2009 at 6:28 PM
Wow! asking crackpots about other crackpots? How in hell did Sebelius, the baby killer and Napoli-Reno end up on Fox?
Isn’t Fox News on one of Napoli-Reno’s “WATCH LISTS” because they DARE employ Glenn Beck, Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity and actually COVERED the tea parties?
nelsonknows on May 3, 2009 at 6:28 PM
Chris Wallace: Are we to believe the Vice President of the United States is a crack pot?
Yes. He has a gift.
Now, would he please ask the same question about Janet Napolitano?
Loxodonta on May 3, 2009 at 6:29 PM
The scary thing about Sheriff Joe is that he’s a prime example of the Peter Principle. Unfortunately, the idiots of Delaware elevated him far beyond his capabilities years ago. At least he couldn’t do as much damage there. I continue to pray for Obama’s continuing good health. At least until 2012.
GarandFan on May 3, 2009 at 6:31 PM
Allah, I hope you’ll write a post and show clips of Laura on FNS she was spot on, especially about education ala Conservatism.
Speakup on May 3, 2009 at 6:32 PM
Sec HHS Sebelius and Sec DHS Napolitano : From Governor to Expert in mere minutes.
HOW DO THEY AND OWAMA DO IT?
We are SO blessed to have people like this in charge!!
Amendment X on May 3, 2009 at 6:32 PM
The real question here, for those who watched more than just the clip offered by Allahpundit is. When can we hang these Obama officials from the lampposts on Pennsylvania Ave?
doriangrey on May 3, 2009 at 6:32 PM
Janet Napolitano. I really don’t like that guy at all.
Key West Reader on May 3, 2009 at 6:38 PM
They told him that if he didnt take the train, they would throw him under the bus.
After having watched what Obama did through out the campaign, Biden realized what he better take the train.
nagee76 on May 3, 2009 at 6:39 PM
I’ll spare everyone an obvious comment on how we all would be reading an AP’s lecture on yet another sign of demise of American journalism if such question was asked by a CNN reporter about Cheney.
Oops, I guess I just haven’t.
radiofreevillage on May 3, 2009 at 6:39 PM
Biden’s comment on confined spaces was probably the first true statement he has made in years and he gets slammed for it. If Biden wasn’t as incompetent as he is, Barry would never have made him #2. Barry seems obssessed with surrounding himself with the most incompetent people he can find. When the worst thing imaginable happens, the number of those going under the bus will be the only hope he has to survive. Accountability to Obama is not a acceptable unless it is for self preservation.
volsense on May 3, 2009 at 6:40 PM
YES
wade underhile on May 3, 2009 at 6:41 PM
Biden is the only sensible guy in this whole administration. JOE BIDEN FOR PRESIDENT!!
Attila (Pillage Idiot) on May 3, 2009 at 6:41 PM
Who in this administration isn’t a crackpot? They’re all vying for the title.
scalleywag on May 3, 2009 at 6:42 PM
OK, he’s sensible, but, yes, he IS a crackpot.
Just to clarify.
Attila (Pillage Idiot) on May 3, 2009 at 6:42 PM
Yes, no doubt if this question were asked about Palin, the left would be very concerned indeed about the state of journalism. I’ll kindly refer you to Friday’s video of lefty heartthrob/modern day Murrow Keith Olbermann devoting four minutes of airtime to breast jokes about Miss California and the ensuing non-backlash among the left online for a case study.
Allahpundit on May 3, 2009 at 6:42 PM
Check TOTUS’ latest blog entries with regard to Joey B.
Killer B
About this morning
Napolitano = Bruno. Heh.
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on May 3, 2009 at 6:44 PM
Everyone in the BO administration is a crackpot but I think crack pipe is more appropriate for BO himself.
txag92 on May 3, 2009 at 6:45 PM
That seems to be true. Do you think it’s because it makes him look smarter, or is he just incompetent, or does he just want to be surrounded by a bunch of lapdogs. None of the above makes for a great leader.
scalleywag on May 3, 2009 at 6:45 PM
I chose to believe that Joe Biden is a lovable old coot who just doesn’t know when to shut up.
Lovable old coot….. crackpot….. Tomato/Tomahto, I suppose.
At any rate, he’s definitely worth a few hundred laughs.
mjk on May 3, 2009 at 6:46 PM
There was the cutest little girl on Red Eye the other night who thought VP Biden was perfectly sincere. There are people that take that man seriously.
Cindy Munford on May 3, 2009 at 6:46 PM
I chose to believe that Joe Biden is a lovable old coot who just doesn’t know when to shut up.
mjk on May 3, 2009 at 6:46 PM
Perhaps he has a mild form of Turrets.
txag92 on May 3, 2009 at 6:48 PM
Thank you.
Oh, you kept going. Never mind.
mjk on May 3, 2009 at 6:48 PM
The whole Obama administration are full of crackpots with Barry being the largest crackpot of all. History will judge this period of American history as the “crackpot generation”.
izoneguy on May 3, 2009 at 6:48 PM
Biden just cannot help himself.
It is a gift.
Mr. Joe on May 3, 2009 at 6:48 PM
I would call him Vice President Crackpot but that would be insulting to every crackpot in the country.
Jdripper on May 3, 2009 at 6:49 PM
See, here’s the thing. The list of my favorite modern time TV journalists goes something like this (in no particular order):
Russert, Carlson, Snow, Cavuto, Wallace, …
Notice who’s in the list, and who isn’t. So while I’m sure that by comparing Wallace to Olberman you meant to say something good about Wallace, I’m not sure you entirely succeeded as far as I’m concerned.
radiofreevillage on May 3, 2009 at 6:49 PM
Biden is the modern equivalent of a Shakespearean Fool, who amuses but occasionally blurts out a truth that his superiors wish he hadn’t said.
Wethal on May 3, 2009 at 6:49 PM
Napolitano, Sebelius, Biden, Chu, Gibbs, Clinton
Allegiance Assemble
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on May 3, 2009 at 6:51 PM
Media wants you to believe that this administration is the epitome of perfection. If Biden feels compelled to open his mouth occasionally and throw a chink in that armor, I’m all for it.
sherry on May 3, 2009 at 6:52 PM
That is the same question most American’s are asking! Except we ask it as a rhetorical question! We already know the answer.
I think “Mall Cop Joe” has officially replaced Dan Quayle as dumbest VP ever.
Though Al Gore will always have a “special” place at the top of the list.
primer on May 3, 2009 at 6:52 PM
BIDEN HAS HAD THIS REPUTATION FOR YEARS.
The media ignored it. No truth to it.
JUST LIKE THE ONE HAS A REPUTATION FOR DETESTING THIS NATION AND WHITE PEOPLE.
The media ignored it. No truth to it.
IlikedAUH2O on May 3, 2009 at 6:53 PM
“Yes men” are very rarely competent.
thomasaur on May 3, 2009 at 6:54 PM
Crackpots? Check. Stooges? Check. Thugs? Check. Crooks? Check. Liars? Check. What could go wrong?
scalleywag on May 3, 2009 at 6:54 PM
“And that’s Uncle Joe, he’s a-movin’ kind of slow…”
Of course, Joe wasn’t riding on the Hooterville Cannonball; most likely he was using the ultra-pricey Acela train. His financial records show that he uses Acela much more than the cheaper “regular” train. And we pay the tab.
Maybe after Joe gets laughed out of office he can star in a remake of “Petticoat Junction”. Bill Clinton will of course be the casting director.
Del Dolemonte on May 3, 2009 at 6:56 PM
p. s. They wouldn’t close the border if the triffids, the andromeda strain and the body snatchers were making their way north. Someone may ask why they couldn’t keep it shut.
IlikedAUH2O on May 3, 2009 at 6:57 PM
Love it.
Cindy Munford on May 3, 2009 at 6:58 PM
FIFY
TruthToBeTold on May 3, 2009 at 7:11 PM
It may surprise you to know that the first 3 people you name didn’t even major in journalism. The last 2 did.
As for Keef, he majored in something called “communications arts”. So he did have a bit of journalism training, but not nearly as much as Wallace, who got his first journalism training at age 14 when C-BS hired him to be Uncle Walter’s assistant at the 1964 Rethuglican convention. Wallace was a journalist thru college and turned down a chance at Harvard Law to go to work for the Boston Globe.
BTW Cavuto was an intern…in Jimmy Carter’s White House!
Del Dolemonte on May 3, 2009 at 7:14 PM
I appreciate this random assortment of facts. I’ll be sure to use for my future trivia games. What was the point now?
radiofreevillage on May 3, 2009 at 7:17 PM
And … she answered it directly: “I think that.” And then later said, its “what the science says”. So, he is a crackpot. Glad that is cleared up.
warriorlawyer on May 3, 2009 at 7:20 PM
You are missing some heroes aren’t you. Russert and Snow were such decent humans it hurts that they are gone.
Cindy Munford on May 3, 2009 at 7:20 PM
The question that should have been asked is;
(Dear in headlight eyes…… rapid blinking…… hard swallowing)
(Blinking increases……….. along with the hard swallowing followed by…..)
Follow up question:
Seven Percent Solution on May 3, 2009 at 7:21 PM
members of the country? members? not citizens? not, the people? not fellow americans? oh, forgot, especially not that one.
billypaintbrush on May 3, 2009 at 7:21 PM
Well, in all honesty, I have quite a number of decent people much closer to me who are now prematurely gone. However, speaking of journalist, yes, I think Snow and Russert are a rare bunch.
radiofreevillage on May 3, 2009 at 7:23 PM
what “the science” says? ugh.
wryteacher on May 3, 2009 at 7:25 PM
Is the “Carlson” Margaret Carlson?
Cindy Munford on May 3, 2009 at 7:27 PM
You fools! It’s Science!
JohnJ on May 3, 2009 at 7:27 PM
I think it is a combination of both. In the corporate world, you can tell who the really good managers are: they hire and recruit people who are as smart or smarter than they are and they use those people to their fullest ability even if it means that at times the manager is somewhat overshadowed by his staff. The lesser manager who may be either incompetent or insecure avoids recruiting and hiring anyone who would possibly pose a challenge to himself or make him look bad. That manager will look for good people, but nobody who might be a threat to his authority or image. To the insecure manager, someone even raising a question is viewed as a threat because it appears to undermine that manager’s authority.
So, how close does this sound to a description of The One? Particularly the part about people questioning him?
AZfederalist on May 3, 2009 at 7:29 PM
Tucker.
radiofreevillage on May 3, 2009 at 7:29 PM
radiofreevillage on May 3, 2009 at 7:29 PMOh, sure. I seldom see him anymore. He’s a pretty fair guy.
Cindy Munford on May 3, 2009 at 7:32 PM
His reasoning is really quite simple – it’s much easier to be the “smartest guy in the room” when everyone else in the room is a confirmed, card-carrying idiot.
Also, there’s the “cannon fodder” principle. When he makes one of his infamous dumbass decisions, and it turns out to be stupid/illegal/just plain wrong, it’s much easier to blame it on, and subsequently terminate the employment of, someone who’s obviously just as much a dumbass as he is. Much harder to get rid of someone who really knows what they’re doing – and can remember where all of the bodies are buried.
uncivilized on May 3, 2009 at 7:34 PM
Either a) they don’t want the rest of us to know that they really can’t close the border, or b) they don’t want the rest of us to know how easy it is to close the border.
uncivilized on May 3, 2009 at 7:38 PM
Uh, you were claiming that Keef was Wallace’s journalistic equal.
That was almost as funny as the rest of your posts.
Del Dolemonte on May 3, 2009 at 7:40 PM
That was a very good analysis of what those chumps are up to.
cjs1943 on May 3, 2009 at 7:44 PM
Grasp at straws much?
Just admit that you were pwn3d and move on to your next awesome display of mind-boggling genius.
hillbillyjim on May 3, 2009 at 7:46 PM
-
Anyone know if the car he rode in was prescreened for
H1N1Swine Flu?RalphyBoy on May 3, 2009 at 7:49 PM
FIFY
bluelightbrigade on May 3, 2009 at 7:52 PM
WTF?
No Les Nessman?
Outrageous.
hillbillyjim on May 3, 2009 at 7:54 PM
Pay attention to how often the Left invokes “what science says,” as Sibelius does here. (Pelosi is famous for doing he same.) Shrewd legislators opposing cap and trade and other ruinous Lefty policies should express their objections and alternate solutions by prefacing their remarks with “what science says” and follow through with a few choice examples.
onlineanalyst on May 3, 2009 at 7:56 PM
Well. That was Wallace’s last interview with anyone from the Obama administration.
watson007 on May 3, 2009 at 7:59 PM
Biden is proof of how ill advised and uneducated the average citizen is. The man is a mental midget and his boss is mentally ill. What a combo created in hell. The inmates are running the show & it won’t be long b-4 vp bin biden slips up big time, endangering all of us.
Ris4victory on May 3, 2009 at 8:00 PM
Hey if Dick Cheney is Darth Vader does that make Joe Biden Jar Jar Binks?
Dreadnought223 on May 3, 2009 at 8:04 PM
The best part about using the “what science says” excuse is that science used to say that the world was flat, that the Black Plague was the Jews’ fault, and that the Germans were the bestest folks in the world. Yeah, science says a lot of things….
Science as they use it now is that the morality of today. It’s only used as a point if it agrees with whatever one believes to begin with….
mjk on May 3, 2009 at 8:04 PM
Thanks Chris Wallace for asking the obvious question.
Now, ask some questions about the nut in the white house.
notagool on May 3, 2009 at 8:05 PM
Ozzy Osbourne’s “Crazy Train” should be Joe’s theme song.
BHO Jonestown on May 3, 2009 at 8:07 PM
Biden is a very liberal guy who has trouble at times with the truth and at times with not puttin a foot in his mouth, but I would not categorize him as a crackpot. While his liberal politics do not serve the country well, Biden means well for the country; he has a son serving in Iraq. Sibelius and Napolitano, on the other hand, can be so categorized.
Phil Byler on May 3, 2009 at 8:09 PM
She did a very good job answering the question. Napolitano was sitting there thinking “Thank GOD that other chick is here to answer the tough question.”
D2Boston on May 3, 2009 at 8:10 PM
SCIENCE says that children are great carriers of viruses. Thank you SCIENCE. How would we exist without you?
29Victor on May 3, 2009 at 8:13 PM
Napolitano is a lawyer?! When did she practice?
PattyJ on May 3, 2009 at 8:17 PM
“Hey do you two crackpots think VP Biden is a crackpot and what does President Wingnut think?”
Caper29 on May 3, 2009 at 8:21 PM
“Children are great carriers of viruses.” So maybe THAT’S why she wants to eliminate them.
AbaddonsReign on May 3, 2009 at 8:22 PM
Huh? I was owned by being told that Wallace basically did the same thing as Olberman?
Well, I guess I was. But not in the way that you imagine. I was under the impression that Wallace was much better than Olberman. Turns out they are basically the same league.
radiofreevillage on May 3, 2009 at 8:27 PM
I like your question best.
Cindy Munford on May 3, 2009 at 8:31 PM
radiofreevillage:
No, Wallace and Olbermann are not in the same league. You are just so used to the media kissing up to Democrats that you get confused when some reporter fails to pucker up.
Terrye on May 3, 2009 at 8:34 PM
So, what the Vice-President is telling us, then, is….
manwithblackhat on May 3, 2009 at 8:43 PM
I heard him ask it. I thought I heard it. I couldn’t believe I heard it. A simply wonderful question. Asked with integrity and honesty. It is a fact that all Americans should be aware of. Our Vice-President is a crack-pot. Our Speaker of the House is an ignorant fool. If something does happen to Barry this country is doomed. Of course we’re probably doomed even if nothing happens to Barry.
As for Biden riding the train home… he’s probably got his own railcar at this point. Paid for with Porkulus.
Griz on May 3, 2009 at 8:45 PM
Am I missing something here? Biden rides the train home as VPOTUS? The #2 is riding public transportation? I thought that the guy who is next in line to POTUS would be protected by the USSS, because of his access to sensitive information…oh wait.
Sorry.
ChicagoBlues on May 3, 2009 at 8:51 PM
Why is there no link to O’Reilly’s show Friday night? Laura filled in for Bill and she had a feminist on to ask her about the treatment of Miss California. That woman proceeded to say that what Miss Cali needed was not breast implants, she needed a heart transplant. What kind of feminist is that?
TXMomof3 on May 3, 2009 at 8:53 PM
ChicagoBlues on May 3, 2009 at 8:51 PM
Great question! How come Nancy’s got a plane?
TXMomof3 on May 3, 2009 at 8:54 PM
Me thinks that the Botox Queen is really the sucessor to POTUS…?
Ugh, what a nightmare
ChicagoBlues on May 3, 2009 at 8:57 PM
THIS.
fossten on May 3, 2009 at 8:57 PM
Didn’t have to, she’s a natural! [groan ;]
According to the HotAir banner ads of Oct/Nov ’08, Joe Biden is a man with a 148 IQ. +3.2 SD is not exactly stupid. It would be worth knowing if the ad was legitimate — and we’re all wrong about his intelligence — or otherwise (such as an underhanded attempt to skew the election, perhaps?).
Being foolish is another matter; it’s possible he’s intelligent but foolish. But words either mean something or they don’t. Are we saying he’s actually unintelligent, and if so, are there test scores or other data to prove it?
RD on May 3, 2009 at 8:58 PM
radiofreevillage
Tell you what. You come up with a clip of Cheney coming up with public heath advice on a pandemic that is in direct contravention of the administration official line, and yeah, there would be a serious question there. Wallace is concerned that the “elites” are peddling amongst themselves info that is different from what they are dishing out to the masses and that Biden’s statement was a “tell,” and Wallace was trying to challenge them to see how they’d react. Remember during the anthrax outbreak elites stockpiled Cipro for themselves while telling the plebes there was nothing to worry about. He checking to see if they’re doing the same thing here and is in fact doing a public service by being a jerk about it.
shazbat on May 3, 2009 at 9:07 PM
Apples and oranges.
If you are truly that dense, then further elucidation is pointless.
hillbillyjim on May 3, 2009 at 9:15 PM
Me thinks Jar Jar would be insulted by that statement.
Hog Wild on May 3, 2009 at 9:23 PM
Biden is the single most ridiculous member of this freakshow administration.
Jaibones on May 3, 2009 at 10:15 PM
Pretty tough competition. Between the crooks (Rahm, Obama, Geitner, Clinton, Sibellius, Holder) and the fools (Sims, Clinton, Napolitano) deciding which one deserves that label is a hard decision.
Best administration evah
iconoclast on May 3, 2009 at 10:53 PM
That assumes Biden is of use to the country in some way… and that anyone would bother to do harm to him… Obama was very smart in that pick… life insurance. Can you imagine? Not even 3% of his fellow Demcrats voted for him. Yep a very smart pick if Obama wants to discourage assassins.
petunia on May 3, 2009 at 11:01 PM
Maybe this is why they’re sending him to Bosnia later this month.
It’s hard to dodge sniper fire with you’re foot in you’re mouth.
AES on May 3, 2009 at 11:02 PM
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