“Nobody messes with Joe!”

I’ve so enjoyed Jonah Goldberg’s column on our truly remarkable vice president Joe Biden.

It’s hard to believe so much weird, nonsensical crap has come out of the mouth of only one person, and rather disheartening to begin entertaining thoughts of “a heartbeat away.”

As I started reading, I said to myself “I hope he gets into Biden’s abuse of ‘literally.'”  (I’ve lamented its imminent loss here before.)  Sure enough, it’s up almost first—and not just the run-of-the-mill offenses (Obama has the opportunity “literally to change the direction of the world”), but also his fondness for “literally, not figuratively” (to students in Africa:  “You are the keystone to East Africa — literally, not figuratively, you are the keystone.”).  He seems to just use “literally, not figuratively” as an intensifier.  It’s like a mistake of mimicry a high school student would make.

I’d cite a few more examples, but the truth is that everything Goldberg lists is a greatest hit.  Biden is gleefully, unashamedly moronic.  Go read the piece.  Enjoy it for its own sake.  But after you do, please also consider one more thing.  Think about the prevailing narrative of Dan Quayle—just what “everybody” “knows” about him whenever his name comes up—and ask yourself how powerful media bias is.

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