Update: Inconsistencies Arise Regarding Alleged Ashley Biden Cocaine Tape

Update 4: Why I think this is a fake, and why the video shooter's lawyer has now quit, plus a new, fun fact about the lawyer: at Daily Dose

Update 3: This is getting weird. Now, the National Enquirer claims the exclusive, but they directly quote Radar's account, and provide no account of having watched the tape themselves.

Update 2: The NY Post's account of what's on the tape differs significantly from Radar's, as do several other important details of the story. The Post describes the woman on the tape, less definitively, as "appear(ing) to resemble the 27-year-old Biden," and say that the woman in the tape uses a red straw, not a rolled-up dollar bill. The Post report also notes the woman shouting profanities, which Radar does not.

According to Radar, the tape was made without the woman's knowledge, but the Post says that she knew she was being taped. Also, the Post reports the asking price at $400k, down from $2 million, and that they didn't purchase the tape.

The most damning fact in the Post report, however, is this:

The shooter claims that he previously tape-recorded Biden at a party in August but was unsuccessful in his attempts to sell that video, they said.

Let's see, inconsistencies, a weaker resemblance, and the NY Post wouldn't buy it? Plus, the guy tried to shop a different tape during the election and couldn't get a bite? I smell fake.

Update: I knew it! Radar has updated its story, identifying the NY newspaper in the running for the tape as the NY Post, publishers of quality smears like the Michelle Obama lobster lie.

Original Story: In what it it calls a "World Exclusive," Radar Online says that someone is shopping a videotape to the media that allegedly shows Vice President Joe Biden's daughter, Ashley, in a compromising position, snorting cocaine:

In addition to RadarOnline.com, representatives for a major metropolitan daily U.S. newspaper, a large British newspaper and the National Enquirer have all viewed the tape.

The woman on the tape clearly resembles Ashley Biden, 27, who is a social worker employed with the Delaware Department of Children, Youth and Families. She is also a board member of the Delaware YWCA organization.

On the tape a man cuts up five lines of what is said to be cocaine. ...The man hands her a rolled-up dollar bill and she proceeds to walk a few steps to a table where the cocaine is cut. She pulls her hair back, bends down and snorts a line...She then snorts a second and third line before the tape cuts off.

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PD toolbar!The person who shot the tape is seeking $250,000.00.


There has been no comment yet from the White House or the Bidens.

Even though there's no proof the person on the tape is Ashley Biden (remember another notable political hoax featuring an Ashley?),this will undoubtedly become a huge story over the course of the week. People everywhere will be asking, "Who is Ashley Biden?"

Ashley made news during the campaign when dropped charges that she "verbally intimidated" a police officer (I fear for the safety of our streets) were raised in response to news stories about Bristol Palin. She also made headlines when rapper Nelly extolled her beauty at an inaugural event in January.

Other than that, Ashley Blazer Biden is best known to the troubled kids whom she helps to find jobs at the Delaware Department of Children, Youth and their Families. For example, Ronald S. writes:

I accepted the offer and challenge which put me where I am today with two certifications in Network Cabling and a good job for the future working with Mr. Mr. Draper and their Integrity Solutions Company upon my release from Mowlds Cottage. How awesome, thanks to all the work of Ms. Ashley Biden, the department Job Developer.

Whatever the true content of the tape, I hope the guy who shot it gets his quarter mil, and buys some warm sushi with it. More to come.

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