Hello on a Wednesday right in the middle of the week…
Intrigue is always fascinating. That’s why mystery stories sell so well. And Joe Biden, Vice President of the United States, apparently could not restrain himself from revealing to his tablemates at the White House correspondent’s Dinner, the undisclosed location – apparently at one time classified – that Biden said former VP Cheney used during the 9/11 crisis. Of course when two people know something in
There are some aspects of Biden’s story that give rise to thoughts of fiction – like how did the VP get into the underground VP resident bunker on 9/11 when it reportedly wasn’t built until sometime in the *next* 12 months? And although he’s gotten through relatively un-scathed so far, some in the White House Press pool have bets riding on when Joe might unexpectedly drop another unexpected hand grenade. It seems he cannot come near a major news story without injecting himself into it in one way or another. So … if you send him something memorable – don’t be surprised to see it magnified or embedded on TV screens even though you shared it in secret or embargoed. Joe doesn’t play by anybody’s publicity rules but his own.
Nonetheless that’s what makes life in the nation’s capital interesting if not always believable. Joe is not known for meticulous sourcing of his information – in fact, fiction sometimes gets either mixed up or mangled in other facts when they come around Joe. He’s rather like a super- magnet attracting attention and sometimes intricately woven information. He’s made speeches sometimes containing long passages apparently lifted word for word from another source – but presented as his own. He’s not exactly someone you want serving on a security committee.
But he is a cheerful guy, and the other Senators like him for the most part. He has many charming qualities – it just happens that strict adherence to the facts or truthful accounts are not in his bag of tricks.
Have a great day – and keep smilin’ –
Cordially,
Smilin’ Jack
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“JUST A MINUTE”
WHAT’S THAT KNOCKING NOISE?
MizP: JIST A MINITE – Mr Jack – I tell you sumpin but please don’t tell nobody.
JACK: OK, Miz Pearl.
BB: Oh excitin’ ta' be in on secret stuff…
MizP: Ah don’t know if I’m ‘lowed ta' tell you.
Jack: Billy you’re interrupting Miz Pearl more than Bill O’Reilly.
BB: Oh ‘scuse me … Go head Miz P…
MizP: Ah was a-readin’ ‘bout Miz Elanor’s stuff …
HOMER: Th’ Miz Elanor of Newsweek?
MizP: One an th’ same. –she’s th’ one that leaked th’ VP done tole her ‘bout th’ seckret
undisclosed location.
Jack: You’re talking about Biden saying out loud where VP Cheney was when 9/11
stories were happening?
MizP: Rite. He said hit was under th’ Vice Presdint’s rezdince at th’ Naval Obsertometry.
HOMER: That’s Observatory Miz P…
MizP: Hit don’t make no diffrunce… everbody knows ‘bout hit now – an. Ah has no reason
ta' b’leve Miz Clift is a-makin’ hit up.
Jack: Why would she try to say the Vice President isn’t correct?.
HOMER: Biden acksuhully said he din’t reveal no classified information.
BB: You’d think that a feller who’d been caught puttin’ other people’s words in his speeches ud’
know th’ difference ’tween classified and UN-classified.
MizP: Classified means hit’s secret – not tha-ut it’s in th’ want ads.
BB: Mebbie Mr. Biden din’t know that.
MizP: He IS th’ Vice Presidint an Presidint of th’ Senate.
HOMER: Tha-uts why he give up runnin’ fer
an also be number one…
BB: Homer… you’s jist makin’ tha-ut up.
HOMER: No I ain’t, -- Mr. Biden done took his makin’ up lessins frum Mr. Gore – he makes
up a lotta thangs.
Jack: How did this conversation get started?
MizP: I ‘b’leve hit b’gin when Henry Wallace was Vice Presdint –
er was hit Secretary of Agriculture.
Jack: We can’t look it up today. Have to go <> I’m
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