Former vice president Joe Biden, a Democratic presidential candidate, quips that it's awkward to talk about foreign policy to reporters with an ice cream cone in his hand during a campaign stop in Monticello, Iowa, on April 30. Now that the real Biden has a shot at becoming the next president, one writer wants to apologize. “If you’ve ever thought of Joe Biden as a clueless but lovable clod, a well-meaning klutz who is predictable, friendly, and ultimately electable, I am in small part responsible for that image,” former Onion writer and features editor Joe Garden wrote in an essay published by Vice on Thursday. “My sense is that we’ve done so much on him that our vision for our version of Joe Biden has, in some way, seeped into the nation’s consciousness that people think our character of Joe Biden is somehow him,” Will Tracy, the Onion’s editor at the time, told Politico in the wake of the 2012 election. “Satire isn’t dead, and it shouldn’t be cast aside,” Garden wrote.

Source: Washington Post May 17, 2019 10:54 UTC