The latest scandal erupting all over the blogosphere seems to be concerning someone who might be Joe Biden’s daughter on videotape snorting cocaine last month. Some sweet guy who shot the video is marketing it around to the highest bidder.
You mean someone at a drug party wasn’t a nice guy? Shock! The “anonymous male”, who shot the video, initially hoped to sell the video for $2 million but has since scaled it back to $400,000. Hey, the recession’s hitting everybody, buddy.
According to the Post, which did not purchase the video, the woman in the video did resemble Ashley Biden, 27, a social worker for a Delaware child-welfare agency.
But I’ve got to ask, who the heck would pay any amount of money for this? I hope nobody. I wouldn’t cross the street to see it. What social/political relevance does this have?
If there’s evidence, the law should treat her as it does everyone else but my earnest hope is that the press doesn’t pay a dime for this thing. If she’s found guilty, the department of social welfare would likely take action as well as her employer.
But if Joe Biden’s daughter is a coke fiend, what does that matter to me or the country? Many good parents have children who do dumb things. Look, I want to care about this. I love mocking Joe Biden. I think Joe Biden is an egotistical, ridiculously Machiavellian, loose-lipped, amoral scoundrel.
But the only reason I could think this story would matter to anyone would be schadenfreude. I mean, who cares if the Vice President’s daughter does cocaine? I honestly don’t.
I could see an argument for a blackmail possibility as a national security concern but you could make that argument about pretty much everyone. So, in short, I can’t see why anyone should care.
Now, the one thing I would add is could you just imagine how much the press would be paying if it were one of the Bush’s daughters on video? Whew. That would be a big number.
We’d see wall-to-wall “breaking news” coverage on every channel. Keith Olbermann would be foaming at the mouth saying this was happening because George W. Bush was too focused on Iraq just minutes after saying that Bush wasn’t paying enough attention to Iraq. There’d be Lifetime movies of the week about her titled, “From the White House to the Crack House” starring someone from The OC or 90210 with Valerie Bertinelli as Laura Bush.
March 30, 2009 at 2:10 pm
Yeah, I agree that this is a story with absolutely zero relevance.
And, besides, why in the world should the press concern itself with this story when they have much more important stuff to inform us about, such as, for example, the “truth” about Trig Palin’s parentage? Or Meghan McCain’s insightful political observations? Or the latest in the Bristol Palin soap opera? Now THERE’S some meaningful fodder for the MSM grist mill.
It’s a good thing the press is above using the offspring of our political leaders as a means of doing damage to their party and/or their political careers.
March 30, 2009 at 2:37 pm
I try not to be cynical, but under the reign of The One there is not even a fig leaf of the concept of equal justice for all.
March 30, 2009 at 2:56 pm
BREAKING: Twenty-something makes bad decision. More at 11.
March 30, 2009 at 3:09 pm
lol
March 30, 2009 at 3:21 pm
The media treatment of Jenna Bush and Jeb Bush’s daughter when they wound up doing idiotic things was pretty lousy. It’ll be interesting to see how the MSM handles this by comparison..
-Chris M
March 30, 2009 at 5:14 pm
Chris M – hopefully, by ignoring it, as they should have done with the Bush daughters. It may not even be the young lady in question, and it’s irrelevant to Biden’s underwhelming non-accomplishments as a lifelong US Senator and current Vice President.
March 31, 2009 at 7:28 am
Ho Hum Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwn.
Must be a slow day in the Matrix. Rush is taunting TOTUS and Zero as usual. Hannity is still counting down the days (what are we at now, 1419 to go til 2012?)… Beck is now apocalyptic and the world is going to end…. so what, now we have to distract everyone from the fact that Zero is a maniacal madman rushing us into a New World Order at the upcoming G20 summit with his entourage of 500+ (everyone from the six doctors, the White House cooks, his bottled water, his $100/lb meat, TOTUS’s bodyguards… on up to the Obamaworshipping press corps, interns and Deadfish Emanuel. I’m sure there are a few 4H clubs and PTA organizations in there as well). No, we don’t want the citizens to begin to figure out what this is going to cost us – in the middle of an economic crisis (oh wait, I forgot that’s over now too) and 500 million Americans (according to Pelosi) who losing jobs every month. Don’t want to report that they did three prior trips to stage out the trip that the Obamamessiah will be taking to Europe. This is more of a production than the Oscars!
No, we don’t want to report “real news,” so we’ll create a distraction….. anything to not let a good crisis go to waste.
Hmmm…. let’s see, I think watching Dallas or Melrose Place reruns are a bit more exciting…
Tune in next week when Obama takes over Directv and bans Archie Bunker reruns.