Joe Biden's daughter, 27-year-old Ashley Biden, finds herself in a bit of a mess.
A so-called friend of Ashley is shopping a video allegedly showing her snorting cocaine. What a friend!
From the New York Post:
A "friend" of Vice President Joseph Biden's daughter, Ashley, is attempting to hawk a videotape that he claims shows her snorting cocaine at a house party this month in Delaware.
The anonymous male acquaintance of Ashley took the video, said Thomas Dunlap, a lawyer representing the seller.
Dunlap and a man claiming to be a lawyer showed The Post about 90 seconds of 43-minute tape, saying it was legally obtained and that Ashley was aware she was being filmed. The Post refused to pay for the video.
The video, which the shooter initially hoped to sell for $2 million before scaling back his price to $400,000, shows a 20-something woman with light skin and long brown hair taking a red straw from her mouth, bending over a desk, inserting the straw into her nostril and snorting lines of white powder.
She then stands up and begins talking with other people in the room. A young man looks on from behind her, facing the camera. The lawyers said he was Ashley's boyfriend of a few years.
The camera follows the woman from a few feet away, focusing on her as she moves around the room. It appears not to be concealed. At one point she shouts, "Shut the f--- up!"
The woman appears to resemble Ashley Biden, 27, a social worker for a Delaware child-welfare agency and a visible presence during her father's campaign for the White House.
The dialogue is difficult to discern, but the woman makes repeated references to the drugs, said the lawyers, who said they viewed the tape about 15 times.
"At one point she pretty much complains that the line isn't big enough," said the second lawyer, who declined to identify himself. "And she talks about her dad."
$2 million dollars?
That's nuts. Why would anyone pay that kind of money for a coke video of Ashley Biden? Joe Biden... maybe.
IF this video is legitimate, it obviously doesn't reflect well on Ashley Biden. It certainly can't help her career as a social worker. Plus, it's not good for Joe Biden's daughter to be breaking the law.
But she is an adult. Joe Biden can't be held responsible for his adult daughter's behavior, though it is an embarrasment for him.
Children never get too old to embarrass their parents.
The Post notes:
Biden has been an outspoken crusader against drugs, coining the term "drug czar" in 1982 while campaigning for a more forceful "war on drugs."
This is awkward for Biden, but irrelevant to his vice presidential qualifications and duties.
Assuming the tape's authenticity, Ashley Biden was not too bright to allow some guy to tape her engaging in such activities.
She has spent her life as a U.S. senator's daughter. She must know it's not good to have a tape like that floating around. She used really poor judgment on many counts.
The guy shopping the video is really a loser. He used poor judgment as well. $2 million? Unbelievable that he'd think he could sell it for that much or sell it at all.
Bottom line: I really don't care what Ashley Biden does.
The majority of Americans who voted for president in 2008 didn't care that Barack Obama openly admits to using cocaine in the past. It's all cool. If Obama did it, it can't be that bad, right?
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UPDATE: Radar Online reports:
The tape was made without her knowledge.
Ashley Biden, or the woman alleged to be her, gets points for not permitting herself to be taped doing coke.
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