There's a bad joke about a music scholar who visits Beethoven's grave in Vienna. As he nears, he hears the Ninth Symphony being played backward. He turns to the cemetery caretaker and asks, "What's that strange music?" The caretaker answers, "Oh, that's just Beethoven de-composing." That joke pops into my mind every time I see photos of Joe Biden or hear him speak. On the one hand, Biden is holding up better than I would have expected a few months ago. On the other hand, no one can deny that the man is aging with incredible speed

Today, several people emailed me the same meme. I looked at it and saw a photo that purports to be Joe Biden, placed next to a picture of a monster character from Mattel named Skeletor:

You'll note that I said a photo that "purports to be Joe Biden." You see, when I first saw the photo, I assumed that it was a manipulated spoof photo. That couldn't really be Biden, could it?

Well, yes, it could. Jim Hoft, at Gateway Pundit, explains that it was a photo by Carolyn Kaster of the Associated Press. She snapped it when Biden was speaking on Saturday at the Plumbers Local Union in Erie, Pennsylvania. If you go to Gateway Pundit, you can see the original photo as well as a close-up showing Biden's skeletal visage.

Later, the Boston Globe, which is where Hoft found the photo, replaced it with another photo. I wonder why!

When you look at a video of the event, Biden doesn't appear a whole lot better:

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