All that Greasy Joe Plagiarism is doing here is telling us what we already knew: Democrats think they’re smart and that the American people are stupid.  From the Andrew Cline:

Sen. Joe Biden said in an interview at the New Hampshire Union Leader this afternoon that too many Democrats, including the frontrunners for the presidential nomination, do not have faith in the American people.

“We’ve got to trust the American people more,” Biden said.

“I think they’ve really lost faith in the American people in terms of leveling with them,” he said of his leading rivals.

When he asks groups of Democrats if they think the American people are stupid because they elected George W. Bush twice, most respond that, yes, they do, he said. He said he thinks that attitude is a real problem for the Democrats, who fail to understand how smart and pragmatic the American people really are. 

Sure, Biden is being a little bit disingenuous, since he has that same air of elitism that he accuses his liberal brethren of having.  However, he is still correct in his inference that liberals think Americans are stupid.  I guess that’s why they support Big Government the way they do: to keep us idjuts from hurting ourselves.

When he’s not waxing eloquent about the clean, bright, articulate Negro in the race or about the prevelance of Indians at 7-11 stores, he’s busy explaining how Iowan kids do better in schools than those in the nation’s capital.  From CNN’s blog:

In what the Washington Post is describing as a “stumble,” Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden said in an interview with the paper Wednesday that Washington’s high minority population is one of the reasons for the city’s education problems.

Explaining why schools in Iowa are performing better than those in Washington, D.C., Biden told the Post, “There’s less than one percent of the population of Iowa that is African American. There is probably less than four of five percent that are minorities. What is in Washington? So look, it goes back to what you start off with, what you’re dealing with.”

Exit question (and yes, I know you see this one coming): What would the level of outrage been had, say, Mitt Romney or Rudy Giuliani or “Teh Fred” said the same thing?

Today’s N&D courtesy of Newsbusters:

Democratic presidential candidate (for now, anyway) Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware got headlines for all the wrong reasons yesterday when he referred to Sen. Barack Obama, who’s also running for president, as “the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy” in an interview with the New York Observer.

“Biden Unwraps His Bid for ‘08 With an Oops!” read the headline over Adam Nagourney’s Thursday story in the New York Times. Credit the Times for putting it on the front page, and to Nagourney for bringing up Biden’s equally strange comment last summer that aired on C-Span: “You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin’ Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I’m not joking.”

But as NewsBusters’ Mark Finkelstein noted, the Times’ headline does give Biden the benefit of the doubt that the remark was simply an “oops!,” a gaffe, and not a reflection of Biden’s real feelings toward blacks.

Back in 1995, when then-House Majority Leader Dick Armey, a conservative Republican, called gay Democratic congressman Barney Frank “Barney Fag” (Armey immediately corrected himself and later apologized to Frank) he didn’t get the benefit of the doubt from Times’ headline writers. The headline to a front-page story back on January 28, 1995 made it clear that Armey intended to “slur” his colleague, no “oops!” about it: “No. 2 House Leader Refers to Colleague With Anti-Gay Slur.”

Nope…no liberal media bias!

Though I dislike Al Sharpton for his race-baiting and moonbattery, he’s good for a chuckle every once in a while. Here’s Al Sharpton responding to Biden’s comment yesterday that Sen. Barack Obama is “the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean”:

Mr. Sharpton said that when Mr. Biden called him to apologize, Mr. Sharpton started off the conversation reassuring Mr. Biden about his hygienic practices. “I told him I take a bath every day,” Mr. Sharpton said.

Touché, Rev. Al.

By the way, this isn’t the first time that Biden has stepped in it. Last year, the plagiarist from Delaware made remarks about Indians, saying that “you cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin’ Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I’m not joking.” And the left accuses the right of prejudice? Pots and kettles and whatnot.

Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE) officially kicked off his campaign today. However, it looks like he may have ended it today, too. From the New York Observer:

Senator Joseph Biden doesn’t think highly of the Iraq policies of some of the other Democrats who are running for President.

To hear him tell it, Hillary Clinton’s position is calibrated, confusing and “a very bad idea.” John Edwards doesn’t know what he’s talking about and is pushing a recipe for Armageddon in the Middle East. Barack Obama is offering charming but insubstantial fluff. And all of them are playing politics.
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Mr. Biden is equally skeptical—albeit in a slightly more backhanded way—about Mr. Obama. “I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy,” he said. “I mean, that’s a storybook, man.”

The…what?? The “first” mainstream black guy who’s smart and articulate and clean? Holy shizit, does anyone have any freakin’ doubts as to how the MSM would have ravaged the plagiarist from Delaware had he been a Republican?

This story is in the New York Observer. As of this morning (and of course, that could change later on), most other MSM outlets are quieter than Monica Lewinsky in her presidential kneepads under the Oval Office desk. Were Biden a Republican, he’d already be “fried, died, and laid to the side”, would he not? However, we can look at the MSM’s failure to immediately report on this as further evidence of their leftist bias.

UPDATE (1/31/2007 - 4:35 p.m.): ABC News is finally reporting on it…and predictably blaming the evil “conservatives” for the fallout. Yeah, I’m sure Karl Rove and Rush Limbaugh beamed the thoughts into Biden’s brain. Then again, since he’s already a known plagiarist, Biden could always say he was simply parroting someone else’s words without proper attribution, right?