LOOK OUT, JOE BIDEN! THE BRITS ARE COMING AFTER YOUR
TEETH!
Hey, when it comes to analyzing (or criticizing) debates
between the vice-presidential candidates, there’s irrelevance. And then there’s
supersize irrelevance. Or maybe super-duper-humongous size.
Scroll down a bit and you’ll see my cranky piece about
Republicans thinking that Biden laughing on TV last night was somehow “rude.”
(What was he supposed to do? Nod sagely and say, “Those lies are absolutely
right?”)
And we had those “serious” news guys from CNN counting the
number of minutes and seconds each of the candidates spoke on each of the
topics that came up, thus revealing….um, uh, mmm, unnh….
But now I find brewing – I suppose it’s on Fleet Street – a
new pinnacle of irrelevance. Turns out some reporter for the conservative
(natch!) Daily Mail wants to do a story on Joe Biden’s teeth – you know, the
pearlies that were revealed when Biden had a few chuckles over some of Paul
Ryan’s preposterous claims about
budget matters, Social Security and Medicare.
A services called HARO (an acronym for “Help A Reporter
Out”) sends out thrice-daily e-mails from journalists desperately seeking
information. And that’s where I found this muckracker in search of a scandal, perhaps pertaining to Joe Biden's dental bills or an implication of vanity:
Biotech and Healthcare1) Summary: Joe Biden's dentures
Name: Hugo Gye Daily Mail - OnlineCategory: Biotech and Healthcare
Email: query-2ivn@helpareporter.net Media Outlet: Daily Mail - Online Deadline: 5:00 PM EST - 12 October
Query: I'm looking for a dentist or prosthodontist to advise on what sort of dental work Vice President Joe Biden has had and how much it might have cost.
Cross-posted at The New York Crank