You're punished: Obama campaign cuts off TV station after tough Biden interview

Yikes. This can't be good for the Obama campaign. If you're going to give, you have to get. Trust me, I'm Obama all of the way, but you can't run from the tough questions.

Tough questions are something they have to take, and answer it correctly..

Considering how "Foxish" the questions were, common sense would mandate turning a deaf ear to WFTV and West's writers. In his 9-26 interview with Barbara, Biden was asked whether he was planning to claim some "illness" after the debates so Hillary could step in. All he could do was laugh out loud.

Not Good, but not bad enough either to make a difference.

Let's see, first she put out the ACORN lie as a question.

Then she called Obama a socialist.

Then she basically called him anti-American.

Then she calls him a socialist again.

She's a total fucking hack, I wouldn't go back to her propaganda show either.

A tax cut for the middle class is NOT socialism, this is total Karl Rove bullshit.

I love how they come out and call it "class warfare" to tax the rich more than the poor. As if "trickle-down" economics wasn't class warfare.

The Republican's only tactic in this campaign, more so than their earlier ones, is to attack the personal integrity of Obama with bullshit scandals and rumors and to stir up the right-wing base.

No one else is falling for it.

Wow. Amazingly thin-skinned for people who want to run the country.

What I also find amazing is how Old Joe attempts to completely reinvent his statement on Obama being tested if elected.

Did they use a rubber hose on him or something? Did they threaten to lock him up with Rev Wright, wherever he is, until after the election?

Seriously, though. Doesn't it strike you as pathetically dishonest to make an unequivicated statement one day and then just a few days later, say you said something completely different?

Don't they know its on You Tube. Haven't they heard of the internet?

Joe Biden...what a joke! Obamas judgement and readiness is completely discredited having selected this pathalogical idiot as his running mate.

Theres a reason this clown has never received the dem nomination despite trying ten times.

if obama's a socialist then i'd really be a happy man and he definitely wouldnt win the election because, you know, socialism is 'bad'...but not when its used to bail out billionaire bankers...ah, idiocracy.

Biden was exceptionally patient to finish this interview, and the Obama campaign was correct to terminate any further interviews with this station. They clearly have an agenda, which is not to arrive at anything truthful, but to disseminate precisely the same lies with which the McCain campaign is failing.

Who cares! They're gonna win anyways. ; P
That's me being overconfident......or stating the obvious. HA!

Come on... You don't start quoting Karl Marx if you're asking a serious journalistic question. Nor do you quote Hitler, Stalin, the Unabomber or Genghis Khan.

"It's been noted Mr. Biden, that Genghis Khan was an ravenous eater of red meat. Just last week, Barack Obama was caught ordering a sirloin steak on camera while wearing mirrored sunglases and a hooded sweatshirt. Aren't you embarassed that Barack Obama is a carniverous bombmaker?"

What garbage! VOTED DOWN!

I'd call it WTFTV...

What do I think of the interview? Biden held his own with brilliance and calm, the interviewer was ridiculous, the questions were puerile and idiotic. And it was not by any stretch of the imagination a tough interview. It was an embarrassing interview for the silly interviewer.

i don't think anything like that would have ever aired before the days of fox news. for a moment i think biden seriously suspected that this was some elaborate joke. i almost expected him to say "am i being punked?"

that marx quote didn't even make any contextual sense except to insinuate that biden is a marxist. "here's a quote YOU might recognize"...

but i almost wonder if these days the accusations of socialism aren't helping the obama ticket.

TOUGH INTERVIEW???? LOL LOL

I would like to give Biden a medal for shooting down another stupid MSM shill but the fact is ANY competently coached high school debater could have shot her down.

Every question was premised upon lies and biased assumptions. Moreover, she just READ them off a prompter like the idiot she is.

There is no evidence that she even understood what she was asking. Biden --a debater against WORTHY opponents --shot down this UTTER TRIPE. It was light work.

Biden never broke a sweat! In fact, he couldn't resist laughing at her. Nor could I.

"I don't know who's writing your questions..'" he correctly asked. It was obvious that she had not written her own questions. She read them like a good robot. As voice synthesis software gets better, she will be without a career.

In the meantime, she is proof that IDIOTS can find lucrative employment (at least for a while) EVEN in a Bush/McCain economy.

A final shot --she quotes Marx. So what? Those few nations who have risked the anger of the world's richest elite robber barons by actually putting Marx to the test are among the world's most efficient and productive economies and boast the highest standards of living indexes in the world, the lowest unemployment rates, the lowest crimes rates. Gee! 'Socialism' is really really scary.

Moreover, the recent BAILOUT proves: KARL MARX WAS ABSOLUTELY CORRECT.

Conservative idiots and Ronald Reagan worshippers brought the US several severe recessions/depressions by transerring wealth to an increasingly tiny elite This WEALTH is NOT re-invested and it DOES NOT trickle down. Every stat and every economic indicator at the BEA (Department of Commerce), the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and Bureau Economic Analysis proves that every GOP tax cut --for example --is always followed by recessions and decreases in net incomes for every income segment save the very, very rich. Now THAT is what I called spreading the wealth around the very, very rich. That is precisely what Ronald Reagan, Bush, and most recently Bush Jr. have done.

Marx was absolutely correct!

Bush and McCain are dead wrong and both are so stupid they don't even know WHY they are wrong.

it must be a tough time for joe the socialist arab community organizer.

numinant, that's totally ludicrous, but quite funny!

I like the idea of media busting some balls but after visiting this television stations web site it is apparent that they have some sort of corporate agenda.

She made no secret where her alliances were.

I personally feel Biden did a better job with the questions than Palin or McCain could ever...

Gotta love the 'Are you joking? No? LOLZ!' statement :)

Barabara West is an old very fake Anchor from Orlando, Fl. She never went past anchoring news at five and duties included light news in a boring town. Having said that, she showed in those questions her personal belief and her political inclinations trying to get five minutes in the national spotlight.

Central Florida is a battleground for the campaign because is where a lot of white christians and conservatives settle from midwest areas, however there is a sizable latino and black population and two universities, many of them leaning heavily towards Obama.

In My opinion her questions were totally bias and blatantly and unrepentantly right winger, and her delivery was totally staged as you can see.

" racist smear-merchants like FOX, " and "Considering how "Foxish" the questions were, common sense would mandate turning a deaf ear to WFTV". How come we hear no outrage over the hit jobs CNN (now THERE is a truly biased news outlet) and the New York Slimes produce? Why do you think the ratings of Fox are 4 times that of the water carriers for Obama? If we had an honest media this would be a better election.

The out and out lies the left wing nut jobs that support Comrade Obama and the rest of his anti-American cult are amazing. Fox has the most balanced coverage of this election. Even Gov. Rendell, a Democrat, said this very thing.
With this we can get a glimpse of how the Obama facist government will run this country. Prosecutors in Missouri threatening people with charges for saying perceived lies about the chosen one and now this.
Like it or not this election is a war between the socialist/facist Obama camp and the Constitution. If he wins the election the future of freedom and the country is in jeopardy. Prepare for censorship of the First Amendment and the SEcond. God only knows what he will do to the rest of the Bill of Rights.
Prepare for more and more government controls and regulation which, by their nature, trample on the individual. Obama is riding the wave of the Democrat orchestrated disaster called the FAnnie/Freddie bailout and, with the aid of the media, have falsly painted this as a REpublican generated problem in need of regulation. REgulation is what brouoght on this problem. Again, more lies.
If Comrade Obama wins he will not be my president. I live under the precepts of the Constitution, not socialism. He is buying and stealing the election aided by his friends in the media and millions of guillable, stupid Americans willing to give up their freedom for government control.
Power, once gained is not relinquished. Be careful what some you hope for. You may be hoisted on your own petard someday.

Hmm... I semi-agree with this move. That interviewer was reading one too many whacko blogs and forwarded emails. She was asking the most insipid questions.

I was expecting her next question to be "Mr. Biden, you just won the UK lottery. Can I have your credit card number to deposit your winnings?"

Still, I'm not sure completely blocking a reporter is the way to go. Then again, screw this ankle-biter.

GO OBAMA!

I'm not sure how I feel about this. Something tells me that no matter how well he answered the question, she still would've turned it against him. He couldn't do anything right, as she approached the interview with her mind made up.