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Rove, Biden tussle over "what Biden told Bush"

By Lawrence B. Ebert, Esq.

The former Bush adviser [Rove] was referring to Biden?s comments earlier this week on CNN that he and President George W. Bush once had an exchange in the Oval Office, where Bush said, "Well, Joe ... I'm a leader,? and Biden responded: ?Mr. President, turn around and look behind you. No one is following.?

"It didn't happen," Rove said. "It's his imagination. It's a made-up, fictional world. He ought to get out of it and get back to reality.?

Fox News included:

Rove was equally appalled by Biden's claims of having given Bush his comeuppance.

"If you notice, all of these incidents have the same structure: Joe Biden courageously raises the impudent question; the president befuddles the answer; and Joe Biden drives home the dramatic response."

Rove scoffed at Biden's claims that "he and the president were sitting there in the Oval Office, he was tutoring the president, he was asking him the critical questions that no one was willing to confront him with."

"With all due respect to the vice president, these are the kind of things you can get away with if you are a United States Senator, or a backbencher in the U.S. House of Representatives," Rove said. "You should not exaggerate and lie like this when you are the Vice President of the United States."

Jay Carney declined to specify the dates of his boss's purported Oval Office scoldings of Bush. Nor would he provide witnesses or notes to corroborate the episodes.

Throughout his career, Biden has often been accused of boasting about his accomplishments, embellishing his credentials and even stealing the words of others. He dropped out of the 1988 presidential race after being accused of plagiarizing British Labor Party leader Neil Kinnock.

IPBiz notes that, in spite of his previous brushes with plagiarism, Biden has become Vice-President. And Ward Churchill did win his case against CU, in spite of his plagiarism and ghost-writing.

See also

Went to a garden party: does Joe Biden hide in your shoes?

Alito jokes about Biden plagiarism

http://ipbiz.blogspot.com/2009/04/churchill-jury-professorial-plagiarism.html

http://ipbiz.blogspot.com/2008/09/on-biden-plagiarism-incident-at.html

Full post as published by IPBiz on April 10, 2009 (boomark / email).