Joe Biden

By Jumping in, Biden Might Free Obama to Release the Hounds on Hillary
By Mark Finkelstein | October 17, 2015 | 12:12 PM EDT

The conventional wisdom is that Joe Biden has been staying on the sidelines, waiting to see how bad the email scandal gets for Hillary. But while that might be true, consider that Biden need not just be a passive player in the game. There is a plausible theory by which Biden's entry into the race by its very fact would increase the odds of Hillary encountering legal travails.

One reason that President Obama might be holding off on having his DoJ go after Hillary is that he doesn't want to destroy the candidacy of the only plausible Dem candidate in the race.  As brilliant and charismatic as is Lincoln Chaffee, still he might just not do.

O’Reilly, Perino Rip Media for Lapdog Analysis of Democratic Debate; Went ‘Wild’ for Hillary
By Curtis Houck | October 16, 2015 | 12:24 PM EDT

Discussing the media’s reaction to Tuesday’s presidential debate during Thursday’s O’Reilly Factor, host Bill O’Reilly and The Five co-host Dana Perino blasted the liberal press for their pandering to Hillary Clinton after pushing for Vice President Joe Biden to run that’s now turned into calls for him to stay out of the race. 

Pro-Hillary ABC Pushes VP Not to Run: Hillary ‘Smoking Out Joe Biden’
By Scott Whitlock | October 15, 2015 | 11:32 AM EDT

Former Bill Clinton operative George Stephanopoulos on Thursday put the pressure on Joe Biden not to run, hyping Hillary Clinton’s performance at Tuesday’s presidential debate. Good Morning America co-host  Stephanopoulos cheered, “Hillary Clinton smoking out Joe Biden after Wednesday night's debate.’ 

Surprise: Judy Woodruff Pushes Hillary on E-Mails, Russia, Allies Attacking Biden, Sanders
By Curtis Houck | October 8, 2015 | 3:11 AM EDT

Embattled 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton sat down for her latest interview on Wednesday and surprisingly, the liberal media’s questioner in Judy Woodruff of the PBS NewsHour (and Clinton Foundation donor) came prepared and hit Clinton on issues ranging from her e-mail scandal to the administration’s misjudgment of Russia’s global threat to allied super PACs attacking socialist Bernie Sanders and possible candidate Joe Biden.

Networks Ignore Biden Arguing GOP Is ‘Beating’ Up Hispanics; Again Hype Carson’s Comments
By Curtis Houck | October 7, 2015 | 11:12 PM EDT

The major broadcast networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC all omitted from their Wednesday evening newscasts the latest noteworthy comment from Vice President Joe Biden that the Republican Party is “beating” up Hispanics but instead continued harping on Ben Carson’s response to how he’d react if he came face-to-face with a mass shooter. 

NBC Touts ‘Exclusive First Look’ at ‘Powerful and Personal Ad’ Urging Biden 2016 Run
By Kyle Drennen | October 7, 2015 | 3:15 PM EDT

On Monday’s NBC Today, correspondent Peter Alexander heralded efforts to get Joe Biden to enter the 2016 presidential race: “This morning the campaign calling for a Biden campaign is now up and running. Today NBC News is getting an exclusive first look at the first pro-Biden ad to hit the air, produced in hopes of drafting the Vice President into the 2016 race.”

NBC Blasts Rubio for Senate Attendance Record; Now ‘a Bigger Target for His Rivals’
By Curtis Houck | October 6, 2015 | 10:00 PM EDT

Following the lead of Tuesday’s Today show, NBC Nightly News continued its offensive against 2016 Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio for his attendance record in the U.S. Senate (despite previous precedent) and warned that his rise in the polls could result in Rubio suffering the same fate as failed candidate Scott Walker. 

'Hardball' Panel Doesn't Seem Upset Biden May Have Exploited Son's Death to Put Out Presidential Feelers
By Ken Shepherd | October 6, 2015 | 9:08 PM EDT

Politico reported today that numerous sources are pointing to Vice President Joe Biden himself as the anonymous source who told the New York Times's Maureen Dowd about Beau Biden's dying wish that his father run for the presidency.

While the Biden camp is strongly denying that there was any political motivation for effectively putting feelers out for a presidential campaign via a friendly columnist, it certainly does look bad. Even so, tonight's Hardball panel seemed to think it was no big deal if Mr. Biden effectively politicized his son's untimely death due to brain cancer.

MRC Study: Hillary Gets the Most Press; Bernie and Biden Get the Best Press
By Rich Noyes | October 6, 2015 | 9:30 AM EDT

According to the latest statistics from the MRC’s ongoing tracking of ABC, CBS and NBC’s evening news coverage of the campaign, frontrunner Hillary Clinton has garnered 80 percent of the Democratic airtime since January 1. Her closest announced rival, the socialist Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, has received just six percent of the airtime, or about 24 minutes vs. 337 minutes for Clinton. Unlike their treatment of the prominent Republican candidates, the networks have given both Vice President Joe Biden and Sanders nearly 100 percent positive coverage.

Out of Control: Networks Pull Out All Stops to Hail ‘Emotional’ Hillary Clinton ‘on Fire Today’
By Curtis Houck | October 5, 2015 | 8:58 PM EDT

The “big three” of ABC, CBS, and NBC pulled out all the stops on Monday night to carry water for 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, proclaiming that she’s “on fire” with “new wind in her sails” as she “unveil[ed] a tough new stance on gun control” and came “out swinging today at the Benghazi Committee.”

NewsBusted: Clueless Joe Biden Confused Yet Again
By NB Staff | October 1, 2015 | 3:35 PM EDT

"Pope Francis also visited the White House last week.  But his Holiness was confused by Vice President Biden, who congratulated the Pope on the Cardinals having the best record in the league." 

Chris Matthews: Biden Could Shift Focus from Hillary’s ‘Termite Bites of Benghazi and E-Mail’
By Curtis Houck | September 29, 2015 | 6:18 PM EDT

In the rarely fruitless world of MSNBC’s Hardball, host Chris Matthews groaned at the top of Monday’s show about the ongoing Benghazi and e-mail scandals enveloping Hillary Clinton that have become “termite bites” for the Democratic presidential candidate as Vice President Joe Biden could still join the 2016 race.