more on the mythical "liberal media"

Right-Wing Florida News Anchor Asks If Obama Is A Marxist; Defends Questions As ‘Probing’»

Yesterday, Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE) sat for an interview with Barbara West of WFTV Orlando. West loaded her interview questions with right-wing smears, likening progressive tax policies to Marxism. Biden responded to West’s ridiculous line of questioning with disbelief:

WEST: You may recognize this famous quote, “from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.” That’s from Karl Marx. How is Sen. Obama not being a Marxist if he intends to spread the wealth around?

BIDEN: Are you joking? Is this a joke? … Or is that a real question? (LAUGHTER).

“I don’t know who’s writing your questions,” Biden told West later in the interview. When West asked if Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) wanted to “turn America into a Socialist country like Sweden,” Biden said, “I don’t know anybody who thinks that except the far right-wing of the Republican Party.”

(Think Progress)
---
I love that Biden mocked her for asking this absurd question - more Dems need to do this!

And I "love" the fact that now repugs are saying that these "tough" (and moronic) questions were legitimate and Biden and the campaign shouldn't complain about them, but Palin has to approve her questions ahead of time and the repugs have hammered the media for finally asking basic quesions like "what do you read" and "why are you qualified".