On top of the front page to today's Orlando Sentinel is a political cartoon. After the vice-presidential debate, both sides' handlers are each congratulating  their respective candidates for not saying anything dumb.  Hold that image ...

Among the incredulous statements Sen. Biden  spouted, during the debate, was a pronouncement that the job of the Vice-President is to preside over the Senate only when there is a tie vote in that body.  When I took civics, in the 8th grade (nearly 50 years ago), I learned that Article I, Section 3, of the Constitution specifies that the Vice-President "shall be President of the Senate", which makes him the presiding officer - all the time, not just when there is a tie vote (which is the only time the VP can actually vote). 

The cartoon in the Sentinel is typical of the MSM reporting on the vice-presidential debate - that Biden comported himself well, avoiding any gaffes.  Though the initial impression, by Republicans, of this media obliviousness  to  Biden's  buffoonery is to write it off as the same old bias, I'm not so sure.  Bias may be the symptom, not the malady.

I doubt the cartoonist, and most of the MSM, even know Biden was wrong about the job of the VP.  Not a single Obama supporter I've spoken to, since the VP debates,  knew Biden was wrong on that point.  But then all  those I talked to attended school since actual education was discarded in favor of promoting self-esteem, and politically correct indoctrination - in other words, typical Obama supporters. 

More disturbing than the fact most of Biden's supporters, and the MSM, don't know the Constitutional role of the Vice-President, is that  Biden himself doesn't know.   Other than waiting for the President to die, presiding over the Senate is the only job given to the Vice-President by the Constitution.  It would be bad enough that a man running for Vice-President doesn't even know that limited job-description, but when you factor in that Biden has been a member or the Senate for 36 years, his ignorance of the duties of the job he's seeking is breathtaking.  Forget whether Biden's qualified to be President - he's not even qualified to Vice-President!

I suspect many in the MSM, and most of Obama's supporters, don't know the Constitutional role of the Vice-President, any more than does Biden.  Therein lies the true danger in the MSM election coverage. Not so much bias, as that the blind are leading the blind.