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Krauthammer Zings Biden’s Smirks: His Debate Prep Was Watching ‘The Shining’ on Repeat

Oct. 13, 2012 8:17am Madeleine Morgenstern

Conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer zinged Vice President Joe Biden’s repeated smiling during Thursday’s debate, saying his preparation must have been watching the film “The Shining” on repeat.

“One would think that Biden’s debate preparation was watching repeatedly ‘The Shining,’ and I think he did an excellent imitation of Jack Nicholson,” Krauthammer said on Fox News Friday.

Critics have blasted the vice president for smiling, interrupting and laughing during his face-off against Paul Ryan. The Republican National Committee quickly put out an ad about it titled, “Laughing at the Issues.”

Watch Krauthammer below, via NewsBusters:

For reference, here’s the Daily Beast’s recap of “The Night of 53 Smiles for Joe Biden”:

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Rational Man
Posted on October 13, 2012 at 11:55am
There are some programs that I only watch just to see what Krauthammer has to say. Yesterday on Bret Baier’s ‘Special Report’, when I heard Krauthammer say this, made it worthwhile. Very smart and funny guy, although, rarely, I do disagree with him. I think that him being a board certified psychiatrist helps in his analysis.

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- Ilikepeople
  Posted on October 13, 2012 at 12:01pm
  Lol. Krauthammer just doesn’t like Biden because Biden is like “This is me folks, like it or not”, and Krauthammer is all cool calm and collected (even like Ryan), because they like appearing even keeled. They know that Americans are sensitive to people having personalities kind of the way a pet dog gets a little out of whack if you move his bowl to a different location.
  
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- Ilikepeople
  Posted on October 13, 2012 at 12:08pm
  Like a dog likes consistency so do Americans, and Americans get a little tense if someone gets passionate about a subject, or slightly raises their voice. So therefore Krauthammer comes across even, steady in his approach as does Paul Ryan. But they are phonies nonetheless, because Ryan would like to break out of the little control box which is displayed in his arrogant head bobs, and steadfast smirk towards Biden.
  
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- Ilikepeople
  Posted on October 13, 2012 at 12:17pm
  But see like a dog gets diarrhea when it loses consistency, or seems confused over a replacement of his food tray, Americans alarms go off when someone gets loud, or shows much passion for a subject matter. In my estimations – that’s why in-part many foreign people refer to Americans as being dogs.
  
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- pudssweetie
  Posted on October 13, 2012 at 12:40pm
  ILIKEPEOPLE, either you are a Veterinarian or you were a dog in a previous life. Here is a dog bone, now go lay down.
  
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- oneshiner
  Posted on October 13, 2012 at 12:53pm
  Very good PUDSSWEETIE: We’re not dogs, we’re people who should learn before we’re 70 years old to treat others with some respect regardless of whether we like change or not.
  
  I’ve had dogs all my life and they do what I want them to do, not what they want. Remember Pavlov?
  Biden is an unhinged doofus who doesn’t belong in a responsible position. He’s only there because obama needed a dumbie to take the heat off him.
  
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- Ilikepeople
  Posted on October 13, 2012 at 1:11pm
  oneshiner,
  No you do actually behave like dogs which is why you get on edge about having inconsistency around you. That’s also why the Bible says “Everything will be your terror”, because you come to be like dogs fearing all changes. Then people approach you like you are dogs. Now Joe Biden has a very erratic behavior and Joe Biden says “This is me.” Moreover, the people who treat you with a soft glove, a steadfast calm even-keeled approach as Paul Ryan, and Charles Krauthammer do – they are the ones who treat you like you really are dogs.
  
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- Ilikepeople
  Posted on October 13, 2012 at 1:14pm
  Now since you behave like dogs, and there are politicians like Paul Ryan who behave calmly, because they are the ones who really treat you like dogs – In my estimations AlQeada really is trying to help Republicans get elected.
  
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- NHwinter
  Posted on October 13, 2012 at 1:18pm
  Joe Biden asked for feedback on his debate performance. So, lets let him know what we thought:
  
  312 985 6433, call Joe and tell him your thoughts!
  
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- Guitarcarl
  Posted on October 13, 2012 at 3:05pm
  ILIKEPEOPLE
  
  There you go with the crazy talk again. Your hospital is allowing the patients to play with the computers.
  
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- Rational Man
  Posted on October 13, 2012 at 4:08pm
  It’s pretty funny reading replies to my post about Krauthammer from those who could surely benefit from his professional psychiatric care…….lol
  
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- teresa2010
  Posted on October 13, 2012 at 5:05pm
  @Ilikepeople…Charles would like you….A stupid psycho like you…At least a dog has a purpose, YOU DON’T…..
  
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- Two Sheds
  Posted on October 14, 2012 at 10:12am
  No, no, no. Not the Shining — Batman. Biden did a great Joker!
  
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nccat
Posted on October 13, 2012 at 11:38am
`Well! I’ve often seen a cat without a grin,’ thought Alice; `but a grin without a cat! It’s the most curious thing I ever saw in my life!’ ~Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll about the Cheshire Cat.

Seems instead of a VP, we have a grin with nothing behind it.

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I SPY
Posted on October 13, 2012 at 11:20am
LMAO! Mr. Krauthammer, you nailed it.

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- damon_k
  Posted on October 13, 2012 at 11:24am
  Go to any working-class bar on a Friday or Saturday night and you will run into some drunk-off-his-ass union thug behaving as the VP did on Thursday night. Read political commentary at: http://smallcraftadvisorychronicles.blogspot.com/
  
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- oneshiner
  Posted on October 13, 2012 at 11:26am
  Charles, you’re always so RIGHT ON! Ever since seeing the ‘Shining’ I’ve hated Jack Nickelson, because in my mind, he was that pervert, just the same way I feel about Biden, he is that pervert.
  
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face.chewer
Posted on October 13, 2012 at 10:59am
I have nothing against sour puss faced Farthammer but Farthammer can’t smile. Do an image search, he can raise the corners of his mouth in a remote semblance of a smile but that’s about it.

No grin is possible for Farthammer.

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- teddyc73
  Posted on October 13, 2012 at 11:16am
  You have nothing against him yet you insulted him repeatedly. He actually does smile, I have seen it. Just because it’s not a big ludicrous grin like the V.P. doesn’t mean he doesn’t smile.
  
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- walex
  Posted on October 13, 2012 at 11:31am
  You know he is paralyzed right? I could care less if he smiles. The guy has a brilliant mind and exercises it to his full potential. He has overcome huge adversity. Instead of sitting in his wheelchair and deciding to be disabled. His is an amazing story. Yet, we have millions on disability that are able bodied but sit home and collect instead.
  
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- strawberry411a
  Posted on October 13, 2012 at 11:47am
  Typical liberal: lying confrontational and insensitive.
  
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- oneshiner
  Posted on October 13, 2012 at 12:45pm
  @FACE CHEWER………..why don’t you just run on down to the Veterans Hospitals and make fun of all the poor veterans who’ve come home without legs and arms and other parts? How insulting you are.
  
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Wango
Posted on October 13, 2012 at 10:47am
Dr. Strangelove relegated to cheap mindless insults. Oh, how the moley have fallen.

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- RightThinking1
  Posted on October 13, 2012 at 12:11pm
  Isn’t there an “Ignore” button somewhere that can selected to flush vapidly empty posters?
  
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- Wango
  Posted on October 13, 2012 at 12:25pm
  It’s in your head. Try taking responsibility for a change.
  
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- pudssweetie
  Posted on October 13, 2012 at 12:43pm
  Yet here you are Wango doing the very same thing that you accuse others of. Must be hard to look at yourself in the mirror each and every morning.
  
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- The_Cabrito_Goat
  Posted on October 13, 2012 at 2:57pm
  No, there isn’t an ignore button. The moderators are simply apathetic and don’t acknowledge the damage Wango/HorseDancer and his other accounts have done, or try daily, to do to political discourse in this country.
  
  Every response to him ends with sexual innuendo from him. It’s time to BAN his IP address.
  
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- valdemar
  Posted on October 13, 2012 at 3:48pm
  what dumpster did you sleep in the last few years. Apparently you need to relocate to an industrial dumpster that contains asbestos. The rotting garbage in your current location has effected what brain you have left or the drugs. More than likely o’ vomit’s drugs of choice weed and crack..In summary you’re an idiot
  
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schroeder123
Posted on October 13, 2012 at 10:40am
I Like Krauthammer

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BootsAreWalkin
Posted on October 13, 2012 at 10:24am
Krauthammer is the World Champion Sumo of all political commentary. Beautiful.

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Mag26
Posted on October 13, 2012 at 10:11am
Maybe Joe the Plugger just wanted to show off those big white choppers

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- DIR
  Posted on October 13, 2012 at 10:36am
  Someone wrote from the UK that Joe was showing off his $20,000.00 worth of denture work. I’d say that would be correct, so long as Joe had had the dentures installed in his a.h.. I think Joe was doing his impersonation of Jim Carey in Dumb and Dumber, the talking a$$ routine, with Joe thinking he would be the life of the party. I’d say it kinda worked. Of course Ryan had to put up with old Joe’s bad breath, that only a suppository with industrial strength Retsin would have mildly covered over.
  
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ENIGMA28724
Posted on October 13, 2012 at 9:52am
I have been a health care professional, and it appeared to me that Biden was responding to stimuli unseen or heard by anyone except him. That is one of the indices we use to determine if someone is mentally ill and hearing voices and/or having hallucinations. Is he on any medications or, should he be? Should he even be a heartbeat away from the presidency with behavior like we say in the debate?

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- Rational Man
  Posted on October 13, 2012 at 12:03pm
  I think it was just the ‘drunken uncle’s’ way to show disdain for the other side. He was presured to be aggressive in the debate and in his efforts to diminish the other side, he only diminshed himself. He is immature acting in his personality from the start anyway. He thought by laughing, smirking and interrupting that he would dominate the debate that way. And he failed misserably by just looking like a nut.
  
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- Gonzo
  Posted on October 13, 2012 at 1:02pm
  Why are you such a homophobe Wango? Is it a self hate thing? LOL
  
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- chips1
  Posted on October 13, 2012 at 1:53pm
  If you watch the movie “The Exorcist”, you can hear Wango’s voice inside Regan. It sounded like he was saying, “I’m sorry”.
  
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- Wango
  Posted on October 13, 2012 at 2:31pm
  GONZO . . . Here, this might help.
  
  ef·fort [ef-ert]
  noun
  1. exertion of physical or mental power: It will take great effort to avoid the draft.
  2. an earnest or strenuous attempt: an effort to keep to charm underage girls.
  3. something done by exertion or hard work: He thought debating would be easy, but it was an effort.
  4. an achievement, as in literature or art: The plagiarism post is one of his finest efforts.
  5. the amount of exertion expended for a specified purpose: the comedy effort.
  
  No, no, it’s my pleasure.
  
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- Guitarcarl
  Posted on October 13, 2012 at 2:52pm
  Wango!
  You forgot to take your meds again!
  
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- Chromo200
  Posted on October 13, 2012 at 3:18pm
  WANGO … Did the check from Obama Reelection Committee come in the mail. What is the going rate. Is the reimbersment by the posting, or by the subject.
  
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- Wango
  Posted on October 13, 2012 at 3:35pm
  GUITARSNARL & HOMO200 . . . meds and paid postings! Wow! Let me fill out the top 4 – mom’s basement and cheetos. There, that should save you some time. Take a tip from AVENGECAKE and focus on making your posts interesting and provocative.
  
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PIGSWILLNEVERFLY
Posted on October 13, 2012 at 9:22am
Here is the really sad part. Biden achieved his goal because even here…what are all the stories about?
Paul Ryan has the plans to restore and renew America? NO..it’s about Joeker. What the h3ll. I wanted Ryan to be able to speak truth to lies….that did not happen much….I REQUEST A DO OVER Where Biden’s mouth is Duct Taped shut when Ryan speaks (and with a new objective Moderator). The whole debate was the worst piece of garbage ever broadcast to the American public as a debate. I watched about 5 minutes of it and was so annoyed it turned it off. THE TV MEDIA IS COMPLICIT IN TYRANNY.

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- audiemurphy
  Posted on October 13, 2012 at 9:47am
  Lara night I dreamt that during the debate Paul Ryan asked for a minute to speak and then said this :
  First off I would like to say that I don’t find anything funny about the future of this great country and the current path this administration is heading towards. All the American families who are counting on a plan to lift us out of this situation of the last 4 years would like to hear our responses and ideas to take our country to greatness once again. Mr Biden here at almost 70 yrs of age and heartbeat away from the most powerful position on the planet is laughing and giggling like this is some sort of joke. Take a close look America at what four more years will look like and I can promise you won’t be laughing like old joe with his tired of ideas and lack of respect he is showing right now are.
  
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- Verceofreason
  Posted on October 13, 2012 at 10:13am
  Paul Ryan is clueless.
  Do some reading.
Gonzo
Posted on October 13, 2012 at 9:03am
I thought of Jack Nicholson alright, but it was Jack Nicholson as the Joker.

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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on October 13, 2012 at 9:39am
  GONZO, I’m with you on that. I did hear something yesterday on one of the talk shows. The thought is that they had Plugs get out there and be something of the hammer so as to make 0bama look better in next two debates. 0bama is not expected to improve himself against Romney, and they media will just continually say, “See how 0bama took the high road, by not arguing with Romney.”
  
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- Lucky3000
  Posted on October 13, 2012 at 9:52am
  Gonzo, I thought of the joker too…Every time Biden laughed the corners of his mouth went up just like the joker….He yelled, laughed and bullied his way through the whole debate and complained to Ryan “you’re taking up the whole four minutes” What a whiney little child he is…………
  
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- Lucky3000
  Posted on October 13, 2012 at 9:59am
  I do not think that Obama is even a mental match for Romney….
  
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- AxelPhantom
  Posted on October 13, 2012 at 10:24am
  Jim Carrey in “The Mask”.
  
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- lamba44
  Posted on October 13, 2012 at 12:59pm
  No, not the joker but the wall-eyed laughing hyena, Ed off the lion king!!!!
  
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- oneshiner
  Posted on October 13, 2012 at 1:16pm
  What a thought. If you can put lipstick on a pig and change it, you could have put lipstick on Biden and seen what a Joke(r) he is. Darn, he’s the Joker with or without lipstick but it’d have made him look better.
  
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Detroit paperboy
Posted on October 13, 2012 at 9:01am
Uncle turd…………………………

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- Wango
  Posted on October 13, 2012 at 10:45am
  Good one! Can always count on ya.
  
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- Gonzo
  Posted on October 13, 2012 at 1:05pm
  Too cerebral for you Wango? Dumb it own a bit for the slow kid Detroit.
  
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- Wango
  Posted on October 13, 2012 at 2:50pm
  Yes, please, dumb it own.
  
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- Wango
  Posted on October 13, 2012 at 3:36pm
  Yes, please, dumb it own for me.
  
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soybomb315_II
Posted on October 13, 2012 at 8:55am
sometimes i think theblaze is Krauthammer’s biggest fan

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- nzkiwi
  Posted on October 13, 2012 at 9:05am
  Nope.
  
  I probably am.
  
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- RichmondMomforFreedom
  Posted on October 13, 2012 at 9:21am
  NKZ, We are going to have to duke this out- I thought I was! :)
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on October 13, 2012 at 9:41am
  NZKIWI, RICHMONDMOMFORFREEDOM, I really think that there are very many fans of Krauthammer here….well, except maybe not SOYBOMB.
  
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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on October 13, 2012 at 9:48am
  yea i dont like people who promote war all the time and exploit the patriotism of Americans
  
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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on October 13, 2012 at 9:49am
  not to mention someone who believes the USA should be the world’s policeman….That is Woodrow Wilson stuff
  
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- Zipit
  Posted on October 13, 2012 at 10:06am
  So Soy! I’m surprised you can even spell “policeman”!
  
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- Rob
  Posted on October 13, 2012 at 10:12am
  I don’t think we should be the world’s policman… I think we should be the world’s OWNER!
  
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- Verceofreason
  Posted on October 13, 2012 at 10:14am
  You lose yer creds, once you go to FOX.
  
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- Zipit
  Posted on October 13, 2012 at 10:45am
  And you’ve lost your brain, it’s a box of rox!
  
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- RightThinking1
  Posted on October 13, 2012 at 12:10pm
  Krauthammer says it, you can take to the bank, that is, assuming it wasn’t one bailed out by Obama.
  Who are the thoughtful commentators on the Left? Krugman seems to be as close as it gets, and he is simply a washed-up, dis-proven economist.
  The Left commentators are generally shrill, feces- slingers (Maher, Olbermann, Mathews, etc), or the intellectually marginallized, chin-strokers like Charlie Rose or Bill Moyers.
  
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- pudssweetie
  Posted on October 13, 2012 at 1:20pm
  What are you jealous because Krauthammer is 5 times more intelligent than you? Maybe your envious because someone who is paralyzed from the neck down is more successful than you and does not have to rely on Government money to support himself. Just so you know, Krauthammer not only has guest spots on Fox News, he also has appeared on other news channels. He also writes weekly commentary in several newspapers around the country including in my local left wing paper.
  
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- Teaparty_Grammy
  Posted on October 13, 2012 at 1:34pm
  I was a Krauthammer fan long before it became fashionable to be–I’ve been reading his newspaper column for YEARS. He is a very smart man and sees things for what they are, which is more than we can say for our delusional LIAR-IN-CHIEF.
  
  I predict that ODUMBER will be better prepared for the next debate–well coached, that is–but without his teleprompter, he will NOT speak intelligently about the economy or creating jobs–because he is CLUELESS on these subjects, and no amount of preparation is going to fix that in time for the next debate.
  
  I heard one commentator dismiss the excuse that ODUMBER was ill-prepared for the debates. His take: “What do you mean he wasn’t prepared? He’s the PRESIDENT, for God’s sake–he ought to know this stuff!”
  
  See, NO man can possibly be an expert in every area that a President needs expertise for. That is why smart presidents surround themselves with people who ARE experts in those areas, and acrtually ATTEND intelligence briefings and listen to their advisors. But ODUMBER is WAY too arrogant and egotistical to do that, No WONDER the liberals are peeing their panties over that debate–ODUMBER inadvertently revealed the truth in that debate–which is that he is not COMPETENT to be President.
  
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ambrosia
Posted on October 13, 2012 at 8:53am
Worse than watching Biden’s screwed-up faces & House of Mirrors antics
was witnessing the followup reviews by the screwed-up media.
Brian Williiams, David Gregory & Chuck Todd
ALL had the opinion that he was fantastically funny & entertaining-
laughing, like sick hyenas, themselves.

Do these idiots ever take stock of their judgement ?

If it had been Paul Ryan, acting like a chimp in a cage,
ObamaMedia would have been all over him, labeling him disrespectful.

These are the same turdballs who called Clint Eastwood’s gig “Bizarre”.
They are purely insulting to their profession & the American people.
We’ll see how “funny” it is,
when their shameless Boy-King & networks skid into obscurity.

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Capt_Gregg
Posted on October 13, 2012 at 8:53am
My impression was that he came across as the obnoxious jerk that Rodney Dangerfield so expertly portrayed in his movies. How many times did Joe watch “Caddyshack?”

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- db321
  Posted on October 13, 2012 at 8:59am
  I think the Doctor may have drilled one of Biden’s **** plugs to deep – it hit his funny bone.
  
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HKS
Posted on October 13, 2012 at 8:51am
Anything that happens in Washington, or doesn’t happen is the responsibility of the President. He can keep trying to pass that buck to someone else, but that’s too bad, the buck be Obama’s ……………………..

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ireport uderide
Posted on October 13, 2012 at 8:46am
I still say it was unfair that Paul Ryan had to debate two ex-wives.

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mersey
Posted on October 13, 2012 at 8:42am
Hereeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee’s Joey!

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Meyvn1
Posted on October 13, 2012 at 8:40am
Hahahaha…

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cico31
Posted on October 13, 2012 at 8:36am
as usual Dr. Krauthammer is spot on….Plugs is about as phony as they come

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DannyBoy13
Posted on October 13, 2012 at 8:34am
Obama’s debate performance was because of altitude.
Biden’s debate performance was because of a bad batch of Ritalin.

The Democrat Ticket: Altitude Obama/Ritalin Joe 2012

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Zatoichi
Posted on October 13, 2012 at 8:34am
Biden was terrible. He showed complete disrespect for his office, himself, Paul Ryan, and the American people. So scary that this fool is a heartbeat away from president.

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- football lady
  Posted on October 13, 2012 at 8:42am
  Absolutely!
  
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- Teaparty_Grammy
  Posted on October 13, 2012 at 1:39pm
  That is why people say Joe Biden is ODUMBER’S best life insurance policy!
  
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jimbo_from_suwanee
Posted on October 13, 2012 at 8:31am
A Few Good Men’s reaction to the VP debate:

Reaction to Biden’s Smirking “Objection”: http://youtu.be/bOnRHAyXqYY

Instead of throwing them under the bus over Libya, this clip should have been Biden’s attitude toward intelligence community: http://youtu.be/hFI6KgYyf2E

Found the Biden debate prep video: http://youtu.be/HU4p5CcZvh4

What Biden and Obama should do for those who are hurting and unemployed in this country: http://youtu.be/CQ5KZ0gh2hg

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Southerner01
Posted on October 13, 2012 at 8:30am
They need to rename him “joker” Biden, because that’s who he was acting like. The Joker from the Batman movies.

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progressiveslayer
Posted on October 13, 2012 at 8:29am
Yeah the old drunk is as phony as they come,a lifetime politician who’s ideas are old and worn out just like the old drunk.

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