LA Times notices Biden is being muzzled...

For some reason the LA Times is shocked by Jake Tapper's point that Joe Biden, the walking gaffe machine, is being kept at an undisclosed location and out of the media's site...

VP candidate kept from media and no crowd questions. Not Palin. It's Biden! | Top of the Ticket | Los Angeles Times

VP candidate kept from media and no crowd questions. Not Palin. It's Biden!

Is it possible we've been living in a bubble for the last several weeks, not noticing a complete role reversal between the Democratic vice presidential candidate, Sen. Joe Biden, and his Republican counterpart, Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska?

The always astute Jake Tapper over at ABC makes a shocking point:

Now, Palin, who was once so sequestered from the media it allowed her opponents to caricature her and helped create "Free Sarah Palin" buttons, is meeting with more and more national reporters and, unreported by them, numerous local media types at virtually every campaign stop.



Alaska Governor and Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and Democratic Senator and vice presidential candidate Joe Biden of Delaware

There's an interview with the Chicago Tribune today, reported here in The Ticket and on CNN earlier this week. She walks back and chats with reporters on her campaign plane.

And, contrary to the silent fears of the McCain controllers, she's doing just fine.

But Biden is something else entirely. We've got Joe the Plumber and Joe Six-Pack. But Joe Delaware-by-way-of-Scranton has gone missing.

Obama officials will deny it. But he's clearly been muzzled by the Democratic campaign that's for real change.