Monday, November 10, 2008

Boos for Biden at Eagles Game

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- The Giants and Eagles played in front of a special guest. Vice President-elect Joe Biden watched the game in a luxury suite with Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie. Biden was booed when he was showed on the video screen.

Why? Why would Joe Biden be greeted with boos?

Pennsylvania did go for Obama. Was that in spite of Biden?

It's strange that fans would boo Obama's running mate.

One of Michelle Malkin's readers, Craig, writes: “I was at the Eagles game tonight, and the booing was so loud they took him off after only a few seconds. I hope it makes all the news rounds the way [the Philly booing of] Sarah Palin did.”

Note: The New York Times' account of the booing of Palin was greatly exaggerated, so much so that it pulled the misleading report.

Did the NYT even report the Biden booing?

Nope.

Bias? What bias?

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Everyone gets booed in Philly. Wasn't news when it was Palin, not news now.

Anonymous said...

Not to forget, Biden is an admitted fan of a team in the same division as the eagles.

Anonymous said...

Thanks for the link Mary, so we could all read the article... and also its UPDATE. You know, the one saying that the booing was directed at a bad call by the ref, not at Joe Biden.

You're right, it IS strange that Phila fans would boo Biden. News flash: They didn't!

Mary said...

Update: Several readers say the booing was over a ref’s call.

Here’s one: “Eli had just gotten sacked and he threw the ball down and wasn’t called for intentional grounding. The Philly fans were booing the non-call on the NFL’s golden boy, not Joe Biden.”

Noted. Looks like the AP will have to add a clarification, too!

More debate: Reader Mike writes that the fans were clearly booing Biden: “Even Jeffrey Lurie tried to rally the fans when he noticed they were on the screen…and the boos got louder.”

Anonymous said...

No debate Mary. The fans weren't even interested in who was on the screen at the time of the booing. They were booing the ref.

Now if Biden's face had appeared at another point inthe game.... maybe. He HAD admitted to reporters he is a Giants fan. And Eagles fans are rough - they thre snowballs at Santa once.

Lordy, imagine how they would have treated Sarah? You thought the Flyer fans were rough!