Photos: Top two: Sen. Joe Biden at vice presidential debate. (AP photos) Lower photo: Biden’s hair-restoration work in the 1980s. (Courtesy of Make Me Heal)
FIGHTING HAIR LOSS AND WRINKLES
Cosmetic doctors helped mold Sen. Joe Biden’s appearance in last night’s vice presidential debate.
Botox injections apparently both eased the 65-year-old’s wrinkles and constrained his facial expressions. That was in addition to the hair replenishment procedures that he underwent many years ago, which reversed the hair loss that he was experiencing.
I’m in the process of seeking expert comments from dermatologists and plastic surgeons. As those arrive, I’ll add to this post.
Plastic surgeon Dr. Jason Pozner of Boca Raton, Fla., starts it off with a critique of how Biden was Botoxed. Those injections reduced wrinkles caused by the frontalis forehead muscles, but also affected his drooping eyebrows, or brow ptosis, Pozner said:
Way too much Botox. It’s exactly what not to do -– take someone with brow ptosis and knock out their frontalis muscles – no wrinkles but their brows drop too much. As he speaks you can see the corners of his eyebrows twitch a bit.
Plastic surgeon Dr. John Di Saia of San Clemente believes that Biden needs more than just the Botox:
Sen. Biden has likely had Botulinum toxin treatments, but would he ever benefit from a simple eyelid operation! Or better yet, eyelids with an endoscopic forehead lift.
Biden turned to hair transplants in the 1980s (pictured), reports the Make Me Heal cosmetic-medicine site. It quotes hair-transplant specialist Dr. Alan Bauman, also of Boca Raton, about Biden’s hair-restoration work:
His transplants, initially performed decades ago, are a “relic” of the dark ages of hair transplant surgery during which time widely spaced, large “hair plugs” (skin grafts) of 20-30 hairs each were used. For perspective, keep in mind that many men who received the first old-style transplants were listening to 8-track tapes and carrying briefcase-sized cell phones at the time. …
These old “hair plugs” are in stark contrast to today’s methods of undetectable single-follicle and “follicular-unit” methods of implantation used in modern hair transplant procedures. In addition, today’s highly trained surgeons are well-educated in the artistic planning of hair transplantation—a very critical step—and use microsurgical techniques to transplant literally thousands of follicles transplanted individually, or just two or three at a time.
Related links:
- Readers to Sarah Palin: Keep mum about Botox
- Palin’s lip liner is a tattoo? Wasilla makeup artist doubts it.
- No plastic surgery for Sarah Palin, but maybe Botox
- ‘Cindy McCain style dispute’ slide show
- Experts to Cindy McCain — more Botox, surgery would help
- Cosmetic docs tell how to fix John McCain’s face
- Doctors propose more work on Hillary Clinton’s 60-year-old face
- Plastic surgery iffy for Obama
- Doubts about Hillary Clinton wrinkle-fighting tactic
For more on celebrities and cosmetic medicine, see links on the right side of this blog.
(This post was updated on Oct. 3 to include Dr. Di Saia’s comments and on Oct. 6 to include Dr. Bauman’s comments and the link to the photo from Make Me Heal.)
With all the plastic surgery today, no one will ever look their age again, including Biden.
Frankenstein with chiklets for teeth
Nice look (if you like the 100 mph on a motorcycle look)!
I did think his eyes looked “pinched” during the debate. In fact, they got even more pinched as the debate was winding down and Palin had bested him….
fake teeth, hair plugs, skin injected with botox, tanning gel and a plagerized academic paper - he’s REAL!
oh, yea, like palin didn’t? her face is tighter than her neck. all of the analysts on CNN had their faces done. That’s what happens when you have HDTV. Stop writing stupid articles like this.
wrinkles are not Biden’s problems…
Lies and inaccuracies are Biden’s problems!
Joe Biden’s 14 Lies
1. TAX VOTE: Biden said McCain voted “the exact same way” as Obama to increase taxes on Americans earning just $42,000, but McCain DID NOT VOTE THAT WAY.
2. AHMEDINIJAD MEETING: Joe Biden lied when he said that Barack Obama never said that he would sit down unconditionally with Mahmoud Ahmedinijad of Iran. Barack Obama did say specifically, and Joe Biden attacked him for it.
3. OFFSHORE OIL DRILLING: Biden said, “Drill we must.” But Biden has opposed offshore drilling and even compared offshore drilling to “raping” the Outer Continental Shelf.”
4. TROOP FUNDING: Joe Biden lied when he indicated that John McCain and Barack Obama voted the same way against funding the troops in the field. John McCain opposed a bill that included a timeline, that the President of the United States had already said he would veto regardless of it’s passage.
5. OPPOSING CLEAN COAL: Biden says he’s always been for clean coal, but he just told a voter that he is against clean coal and any new coal plants in America and has a record of voting against clean coal and coal in the U.S. Senate.
6. ALERNATIVE ENERGY VOTES: According to FactCheck.org, Biden is exaggerating and overstating John McCain’s record voting for alternative energy when he says he voted against it 23 times.
7. HEALTH INSURANCE: Biden falsely said McCain will raise taxes on people’s hea lth insurance coverage — they get a tax credit to offset any tax hike. Independent fact checkers have confirmed this attack is false
8. OIL TAXES: Biden falsely said Palin supported a windfall profits tax in Alaska — she reformed the state tax and revenue system, it’s not a windfall profits tax.
9. AFGHANISTAN / GEN. MCKIERNAN COMMENTS: Biden said that top military commander in Iraq said the principles of the surge could not be applied to Afghanistan, but the commander of NATO’s International Security Assistance Force Gen. David D. McKiernan said that there were principles of the surge strategy, including working with tribes, that could be applied in Afghanistan.
10. REGULATION: Biden falsely said McCain weakened regulation — he actually called for more regulation on Fannie and Freddie.
11. IRAQ: When Joe Biden lied when he said that John McCain was “dead wrong on Iraq”, because Joe Biden shared the same vote to authorize the war and differed on the surge strategy where they John McCain has been proven right.
12. TAX INCREASES: Biden said Americans earning less than $250,000 wouldn’t see higher taxes, but the Obama-Biden tax plan would raise taxes on individuals making $200,000 or more.
13. BAILOUT: Biden said the economic rescue legislation matches the four principles that Obama laid out, but in reality it doesn’t meet two of the four principles that Obama outlined on Sept. 19, which were that it include an emergency economic stimulus package, and that it be part of “part of a globally coordinated effort with our partners in the G-20.”
14. REAGAN TAX RATES: Biden is wrong in saying that under Obama, Americans won’t pay any more in taxes then they did under Reagan.
And the Mother of all Biden Gaffes
Rick Moran
AMERICAN THINKER
October 3, 2008
My jaw hit the floor when I heard Biden say this:
Here’s what the president said when we said no. He insisted on elections on the West Bank, when I said, and others said, and Barack Obama said, “Big mistake. Hamas will win. You’ll legitimize them.” What happened? Hamas won.
When we kicked — along with France, we kicked Hezbollah out of Lebanon, I said and Barack said, “Move NATO forces in there. Fill the vacuum, because if you don’t know — if you don’t, Hezbollah will control it.”
Now what’s happened? Hezbollah is a legitimate part of the government in the country immediately to the north of Israel.
Wha? Who? Kicked Hezb’allah out of where? Urged we send who into what? This is really an incredible gaffe - far more serious than anything Sarah Palin has ever said anywhere.
Let’s allow a “Foreign Policy Insider” quoted at The Corner, to try and untangle this web of lies, misstatements, and downright loony contentions:
Well, Hezbollah’s been there since the early 1980’s of course, blossoming throughout the 1990’s to become now over a third of the population of Lebanon with 2 cabinet members, a host of parliamentarians, and schools, clinics, and basically an entirely separate governance infrastructure in all of southern Lebanon and elsewhere. I suppose the throwing out of Hezbollah was the dismal and failed Israeli campaign of 2006 which dislodged nothing? Or was it Israeli’s occupation of Southern Lebanon from 1982 – 1999? Don’t remember an Obama position on NATO replacing Israeli occupation then. As for NATO going in after the 2006 debacle, well, I’m the one who rounded up 8,000 French and Italians and a few thousand other Euros to go into Southern Lebanon along with an assortment of others in August 2006 and while working that issue for about 40 straight days I don’t remember a peep from Biden or Obama about NATO – which wouldn’t be budged despite our intense pressure in Mons. So, we went straight to Rome and Paris. Que sera, sera.
In any case, he was all bluff and bluster and too bad she didn’t have time during debate prep to get his very mixed record on foreign policy stuff, he’s as good as he is bad at foreign policy and that is just a comment on his mastery, not on his policy positions…which have been more bad than good.
Allow me to add a few things. First, Hezb’allah may have only two cabinet ministers but they control the entire opposition bloc of 11 ministers in the 30 seat government. They currently control 62 of the 128 member Lebanese Parliament. Now for the meat of Biden’s claims.
Of course, no one “threw Hezb’allah out of Lebanon.” They have been there all along as the expert above notes. The Lebanese people threw the Syrians out of Lebanon, with no help from liberal Democrats like Biden and Obama, but with a great big behind the scenes lift from France and the US. It was we who put the bug in King Abdullah’s ear to lobby the Syrians to get while the going was good as the French worked directly on Baby Assad. The combination worked wonderfully and the Syrians left in a hurry - after a couple of million Lebanese took to the streets in a breathtaking show of defiance to tyranny and love of freedom.
Joe Biden - or any rational human being on this planet anyway - never recommended that NATO be dispatched to “fill the vacuum.” It is a lie. If it had been proposed. Colin Powell would have been laughed out of the room - something we should do to Biden at this point because he compounded his gaffe by evidently believing that not having NATO as a buffer between Israel and Hezb’allah - an absolute impossibility mind you - led to the ascension of Hezb’allah in Lebanon as a political power.
Where has Biden been for the last 20 years - at least since the Taif Accords were signed in 1989 which gave Hezb’allah a free hand in the southern part of the country and then pressuring the Lebanese government to formally designate them as “the resistance” to Israel? Hezb’allah’s rise is directly related to Iran’s funding of their proxy to the tune of around $250 million a year.
It is unbelievable to me that no one - not one single story in the press that I’ve read about the debate last night (I haven’t read them all so there may be some analysis I’ve missed) - has seen fit to mention this monumental gaffe, this horible misstatement of history, misreading of the situation in Lebanon, and the out and out lie that he and Obama recommended NATO troops move in after Syria was kicked out. This gaffe should be the headline that comes out of the debate; “Chairman of Senate Foreign Relations Committee is a Buffoon.” Instead, it slides by and Palin is called out for mispronouncing the name of our commanding general in Afghanistan.
Unbelievable.
UPDATE
Michael Totten - who has been to Lebanon several times and knows the people and politics as well as any journalist in America - writes in Commentary this morning:
What on Earth is he talking about? The United States and France may have kicked Hezbollah out of Lebanon in an alternate universe, but nothing even remotely like that ever happened in this one.
Nobody - nobody - has ever kicked Hezbollah out of Lebanon. Not the United States. Not France. Not Israel. And not the Lebanese. Nobody.
Joe Biden has literally no idea what he’s talking about.
It’s too bad debate moderator Gwen Ifill didn’t catch him and ask a follow up question: When did the United States and France kick Hezbollah out of Lebanon?
The answer? Never. And did Biden and Senator Barack Obama really say NATO troops should be sent into Lebanon? When did they say that? Why would they say that? They certainly didn’t say it because NATO needed to prevent Hezbollah from returning-since Hezbollah never went anywhere.
I tried to chalk this one up as just the latest of Biden’s colorful gaffes. Did he mean to say “we kicked Syria out of Lebanon?” But that wouldn’t make any more sense. First of all, the Lebanese kicked Syria out of Lebanon. Not the United States, and not France. But he clearly meant to say Hezbollah, not Syria, because he correctly notes just a few sentences later that Hezbollah is part of Lebanon’s government. He wasn’t talking about Syria. He was talking about Hezbollah all the way through, at the beginning, in the middle, and at the end of his outlandish assertion.
Taking a second look at it, Michael may be right - that Biden is so clueless he actually meant Hezb’allah and not Syria. This coupled with his rather strange answer on Pakistan’s stability, that it is somehow within the power of the US president to affect what is happening on the ground in Pakistan beyond doing what the Bush Administration has been doing since 2001, calls into question the depth of Biden’s knowledge about any foreign policy issue.
Hat Tip: Ed Lasky
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