FRIEND OF BIDEN'S DAUGHTER SHOPPING TAPE OF HER DOING COCAINE

A "friend" of Vice President Joseph Biden's daughter, Ashley, is attempting to hawk a videotape that he claims shows her snorting cocaine at a house party this month in Delaware.The anonymous male acquaintance of Ashley took the video, said Thomas Dunlap, a lawyer representing the seller.Dunlap and a man claiming to be a lawyer showed The Post about 90 seconds of 43-minute tape, saying it was legally obtained and that Ashley was aware she was being filmed. The Post refused to pay for the video.The video, which the shooter initially hoped to sell for $2 million before scaling back his price to $400,000, shows a 20-something woman with light skin and long brown hair taking a red straw from her mouth, bending over a desk, inserting the straw into her nostril and snorting lines of white powder.

She then stands up and begins talking with other people in the room. A young man looks on from behind her, facing the camera. The lawyers said he was Ashley's boyfriend of a few years.The camera follows the woman from a few feet away, focusing on her as she moves around the room. It appears not to be concealed. At one point she shouts, "Shut the f--- up!"

The woman appears to resemble Ashley Biden, 27, a social worker for a Delaware child-welfare agency and a visible presence during her father's campaign for the White House. The dialogue is difficult to discern, but the woman makes repeated references to the drugs, said the lawyers, who said they viewed the tape about 15 times."At one point she pretty much complains that the line isn't big enough," said the second lawyer, who declined to identify himself. "And she talks about her dad."Biden has been an outspoken crusader against drugs, coining the term "drug czar" in 1982 while campaigning for a more forceful "war on drugs."

Betcha there'll be denials all over the place.

And I bet the Brownshirts are doing their thing to make sure the whole thing is covered up. Can't have anything embarrassing the Veep, nor The One... 'cause they prefer to create their own embarrassments all by themselves!

Can't have this getting out if indeed it's Ashley on the tape.

After all, she's a Democrat's daughter. If she was a Republican's daughter, the Big Media would be all over this Big Time, 24 hours a day for a long, long, looooong time, even on the basis of a mere allegation and unconfirmed identity. You couldn't shut it up and the Republicans don't dare even have a Brownshirt force of bullies to make people shut up, like the Democrats do...

It's not as if it was Bush's daughter being caught drinking underage, which was treated as a big deal. A Demmie VP's daughter snorting coke? No big deal, just like, y'know, Chappaquiddick and, y'know, the hide-the-cigar game Billy and Monica played in the Oval Office... so better shut up or the Brownshirt guys will come and getcha!