Massive, full-screen photo of Biden looking silly? Check.

Start-to-finish snark? Check.

Inane comparison of Biden to Dick Cheney? Check:

Following the phone call that could consume 25, maybe 30, of Biden's monthly minutes, “The vice president will spend the remainder of the day meeting with senior staff.”

They've no doubt simply packed into Wilmington despite the federal government's snow day. Or maybe Biden has a home bunker for videoconferencing.

We won't really know because, like the rest of Biden's officially opaque workday, those meetings with unnamed people on unspecified subjects for unannounced durations are closed to any outsiders, too.

Remember how unacceptably secretive bordering on evil that was when Dick “The Most Dangerous Vice President in American History” Cheney used to do the very same thing?

Is it even possible that Andrew Malcolm is dumb enough to expect journalists to be invited to attend the Vice President's meetings with his senior staff? Is it even possible that he expects us to be dumb enough to think Biden meeting privately with his staff is the “opaque” equivalent to Dick Cheney meeting secretly with energy company executives?