The VP's Bunker

Yesterday the people who pontificate for FNN demonstrated for the umpteenth time that their talent for reaching far exceeds their grasp.

Doing one of their favorite things, tattling on the Vice-President of the United States, they did a good job of embroidering on a report that J. Biden  had disclosed the location of the bunker where Vice-Prez's can hide whenever there are signs indicating that violent reprisals are being made on U.S. home soil for something its agents of many types have done in other countries..

One could very well yawn and think, "So what?"

You might suppose that the answer is that that location was supposed to be Secret,  and maybe even Top Secret.  After all, the number of countries who had had armies of spies swirling around D.C. and nearby for almost a decade trying to ferret out the location of that burrow must have been enormous.

But that is merely ancillary to the FNN.  What matters to them is that it was in their eyes yet another political gaffe by the VP, due to his well-known volubility, and they could gleefully add it to the long list of his "political gaffes" that they have conscientiously been keeping.   Also they  showed hardly any concern that Biden had endangered himself.  Instead all their cares centered around the Cheney guy, and they screamed that Biden had clumsily let slip the critical information on where  Cheney  had hunkered down during 9/11, which, you may notice, has already been quite some time ago..

You would think that the Fox Neo-Nazi News people would never want to invoke memories of that day, because the actions of both Cheney and Bush after the airliner smash-ups would never make it into another book on the order of J.F. Kennedy's "Profiles in Courage."   My recollection is that, instead of Bush flying directly to Washington or New York as soon as the word registered on him and going on the air there and saying, "This is a terrible thing, but let's all just cool it," he spent the next two days flitting around from place to place far inland without saying much, while Cheney cowered in his bunker closer to town and also unheard from.

They must've thought that the terrorists thought that they were the leaders of this country.   But the terrorists knew better,.and actually Bush/Cheney were, of all the U.S. citizens, among the least in danger, because the pair had already shown  that they were relevant  to the real workings of United States  only in the same way as a pair of high-flying geese eyeing with interest the intake of a functioning jet engine.

The FNN operated on the premise that Biden had revealed the location to be in his home, the Naval Observatory, somewhere on the outskirts of D.C., where the Vices have lived since the 1970's.  Well, where else would it be?   It's convenient, and West Virginia is a place where, once there,  it's not easy to find your way back out.

But then Biden's people claimed that he had only been talking about an upstairs working area that had been renovated and that had also been used by Cheney and his people.

So there's hope yet that Biden still has a hidey-hole where he can go and few to know where he is, though that  isn't at all his thing, and I can never see him -- or that amazingly outward  wife of his -- doing that.  Instead we can count on him, hopefully with his wife, always jumping up in the face of any situation and saying, "Here I am, y'all!"   And that doesn't call for sneezes.

I don't think Fox News is going to get much out of this latest stretch of theirs.  They might want to look at the length of that list that they are calling his numerous political blunders and ask themselves how far their doing so has gotten them and, in comparison, J. Biden, thus far.