That's the headline at the NYT for something currently at Memeorandum with the headline "Biden's Folksiness Can Veer Into Folklore, or Falsehoods."
Perhaps that had been the front-page teaser at the Times. It's not on the front page at the moment. It went up yesterday, but there's only one newer headline with the name Biden on the front page — "Biden Administration Plan Could Lead to Employee Status for Gig Workers" — and that isn't about Biden, just his administration.
There's an older headline still on the front page — "Joe Biden Knows How to Use Donald Trump." That extols Biden... but for what? What is Biden being given credit for here? The author is Ezra Klein, who goes on about how "startlingly few interviews and news conferences" Biden gives.
He doesn’t go for attention-grabbing stunts or high-engagement tweets. I am not always certain if this is strategy or necessity: It’s not obvious to me that the Biden team trusts him to turn one-on-one conversations and news conferences to his advantage....
In other words, you suspect Biden's people don't trust him to get through interviews. Is Klein trying to be funny? I don't think so. I think he's earnestly endeavoring to help Biden.
The theory of the piece is that Biden "knows how to use" Trump by hanging back and letting Trump go for all the attention. The idea is — as it's been throughout Trump's political career — that Trump will destroy himself. Keep hoping! I wish Trump would move on, but let's not effuse over Biden.
And this new article — "Biden, Storyteller in Chief, Spins Yarns That Often Unravel/President Biden has been unable to break himself of the habit of embellishing narratives to weave a political identity" — is just so blatantly soft-pedaled. Imagine the same kind of article about Trump. It would call him an outrageous liar.
For more than four decades, Mr. Biden has embraced storytelling as a way of connecting with his audience, often emphasizing the truth of his account by adding, “Not a joke!” in the middle of a story. But Mr. Biden’s folksiness can veer into folklore, with dates that don’t quite add up and details that are exaggerated or wrong, the factual edges shaved off to make them more powerful for audiences.
That's the first paragraph. The next 2 paragraphs tell us about how Trump is worse.
Paragraph 4:
Mr. Biden’s fictions are nowhere near that scale. But they are emblematic of how the president, over nearly five decades in public life, has been unable to break himself of the habit of spinning embellished narratives, sometimes only loosely based on the facts, to weave together his political identity. And they provide political ammunition for Republicans eager to tar him as too feeble to run for re-election in two years....
So Trump is much worse, but in order to beat Trump in the next election, Democrats shouldn't want a candidate who makes it harder for them to make dishonesty a central issue. That's the point of the article, I'd say.
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The late night comics have been mocking him for the last couple of weeks, finally making hay out of the obvious gaffes.
They're pushing him out before the new congress convenes a Hunter Laptop Committee.
I’m a gig worker who absolutely doesn’t want an “employee status” with my clients. Biden’s gig worker plan will put me out of business. It’s evil.
They just can't bring themselves to acknowledge what is plain for everyone who has eyes to see and ears to hear: Biden is, and always has been, a LIAR. (And a clumsy one, at that.)
And that's the least unsavory of his unsavory characteristics.
This is a flailing illegitimate Regime with an obvious puppet figurehead.
They are actively trying to start World War 3 with Russia.
Their policies are so unpopular and so obviously failed that they need a nuclear event to distract from this.
Putin is a piece of shit, but hopefully he realizes what the Biden Regime's goals are and avoids using nukes.
Joe will launch more attacks on Russia until he forces Russia to use nukes. This is the obvious goal of this warmongering bunch of shitheads.
Oh the lengths they will go to avoid saying the obvious: Biden has a big problem being truthful and in fact cannot conduct ANY event without veering into "falsehoods" as they so sweetly phrase it. Like it's an oopsie! When truth is no matter how many Pinocchios or PantsonFire he gets he will NOT stop repeating the myths of Joey from Scranton or the slanders about Donnie from Queens.
Journalism is broken.
The only time I know when to believe him is when he gives me his "word as a Biden." That's gold.
"...unable to break himself of the habit..."
Of sniffing little girls and grabbing big ones.
Of telling tall tales where he's the hero.
Of trying to start WWIII.
Of ruining our energy industry with no good replacement in sight.
Of leaving the border wide open.
Of dividing the country with his intemperate and untruthful Nazi talk.
Hey this is fun once you get started!
(Embellished) narratives = Folklore = Storytelling = Yarns = Fictions = Bullsh*t
"Our opponents are dirty, unprincipled liars...so, we, regrettably must use the same tactics to defeat them and save America!"
With this article, the NYT has taken a baby step in a developing effort to get rid of Biden before 2024.
Remember! Trump LIED!, more than ALL OTHER Presidents, combined!!
It's hard to say what exactly those lies Were, but they were LIES!, and they were BAD!
On the Other Hand.. Biden's Folksiness Can Veer Into Folklore, or Falsehoods; and that's Just FINE!.. Because!
How to Describe a Compulsive Liar You Like
"Biden Lies Again."
Until that hed appears, we'll know that in some way the Times is still covering for him. The man is a career fabulist. He makes Stephen Glass look like a piker.
Biden is a prisoner of a favorable Dem Media covering his goofy fake brags with no questions allowed. He can make up any heroic version of his life without fear of being caught in lies. The Dem Media brands all truth told about Biden as a Conspiracy theory or Russian Disinformation. And the FBI always does it’s only job of covering up for Dem rulers by investigating the witnesses and physical evidence by collecting it all and deep sixing it.
The Dems need a young liar that can hit the right tone. The old Dementia liars just can’t pull it off.
Yet this is made into a single news article by the NYT. With Trump, every speech was considered false until the FactCheckers verified it. With Biden, the FactCheckers aren’t that interested in his speeches. It is usually the White House itself tat has to Fact Check Biden to tell us he was wrong about the pandemic being over or whatever misstep he made.
Biden interview with Tapper on CNN this evening.
The New York Times seems to have a rather forgiving stance towards liars. Kind of a "We know it's wrong, but we all do it" attitude.
Biden is a liar and a horrible one at that. At least Bill Clinton was a good liar.
Are they really only just realizing this now? And if Trump told untruths, weren't they mostly just him saying that he was the most something or the best at something? Biden does that too, but also offers wholly fictional versions of himself.
You can hack around the paywall, or you can try to read the article in the second or two before the paywall comes down (maybe speed reading wasn't a scam and I should have taken it in high school). Trump saying it didn't rain on his inauguration day doesn't strike me as a very significant "lie." I can't imagine him actually knowing that not to be the case but saying it anyway. It also pales compared to some of Biden's whoppers.
The idea that he is weaving a political identify is, itself, a yarn being spun.
Biden is, as best as I can tell, a well chronicled political liar since at minimum 1988 when he withdrew from a Presidential Election over his liars and plagiarism.
He was a shitty Senator who well rightfully questioned when Obama chose him as VP. His policy stances had often been mocked and he had very little accomplishments. He was known as a blowhard. He was selected to be VP on the basis of foreign policy experience, but had very few real foreign relationships or accomplishments to his name - he chaired a committee.
His tenure as VP was basically mocked by Obama himself and then complicated by what he did in places like Ukraine.
Now as President he's low energy, an even worse speaker, leads nothing, and has the White House often walking back his comments as if he's not the President.
His political identity is basically someone who accomplished little and constantly got promoted despite being unreliable, a poor speaker, and having very troubling habits with women.
The central banks of the world do not attack each other.
Until now.
The ECB just told the world it blames Powell/US Fed for what is coming this winter.
The regime will not survive this even if Putin uses nukes.
My favorite Biden lie was the about how he summitted Mount Everest in nineteen-hundred and oughty-nought wearing nothing but a jock-strap and love-locket given to him by a Parisian flapper-dancer named Marie Curie. Marie Curie...no I'm serious! Listen fat, he's the one who told her "I think there's something weird about this glowing rock, cover up your tits, sugar buns, and look into this!" and how the entire premise of the Knight Rider was based on his years at the University of Delaware Law school while he was smuggling genetically modified albino hissing cockroaches from Madagascar to culture platelets for sick Jamaican children suffering from ulcerative colitis...
Hunter's coming to visit him today!
"Basically Joe Biden is a fraud, but..." is the central argument in support of Joe Biden and has been for most of his political career. The walking definition of white privilege - the elevation of a mediocre old white man based wholly on things other than his skills - Joe Biden, is everything progressives supposedly stand against. Is he preferable to Trump? Maybe, but that's like asking if you want to die by burning or drowning - you still end up dead.
I suspect the Times is beginning to master the art of creating alternate headlines for the same story and pushing them to different audiences based on their political temperament.
“The central banks of the world do not attack each other.”
This is not really correct. Throughout history they have always attacked each other. We’ve just lived through a post WWII period of peace.
How many euphemisms for lying can you come up with?
Read that NYT article. You'll be impressed how many they have in covering for old Joe.
Could we label them (Biden and Trump) "Fabulists"?
Fabulists are authors of fables, in the normal sense of "a narration intended to convey a useful truth".
"Wikipedia"
Sounds a little too nice.
The news is in the fiction business - narratives that their readers want to live in. Trump the racist, for example.
Forty years as one of the gustiest inmates of the cavern of the winds, a hack fabulist and timeserver escalated to the WH by the Organs and their eager lickspittles.
It's going to be an interesting month.
"Mike (MJB Wolf) said...
"...unable to break himself of the habit..."
Of sniffing little girls and grabbing big ones.
Of telling tall tales where he's the hero."
STOP! The rest are not Biden's doing. He's a fucking potted plant. The rest are those of who's really running the show.
Of trying to start WWIII.
Of ruining our energy industry with no good replacement in sight.
Of leaving the border wide open.
Of dividing the country with his intemperate and untruthful Nazi talk.
It doesn't matter how much Biden lies ... ya'll still vote for him.
Oh wait ...
Hahahahahahaha
Americans used to be free. How you like it now?
He's a liar, but it's okay because he's been doing it a long time. (?)
It would be interesting if Putin signalled a willingness to enter into peace talks, but insisted that they be led by China (or any country that's not the US or in Nato). There's certainly no way, under this administration, that the US could do it.
The ECB just told the world it blames Powell/US Fed for what is coming this winter.
The European Central Bankers, all part of the World Economic Forum ... known colloquially as "SPECTRE" ... threw in with Putin and Russia to get their heating oil from.
I laugh at how many will freeze to death this winter. If Europeans had a single nutsack left among them, they'd burn Davos to the ground and salt the Earth where it stands.
@ Dave Begley
Clinton was not only a good liar, but he was an entertaining one. At least with Bill we did not have to worry whether his brain was working or not. And compared to the bunch of jokers in Biden's cabinet Clinton's cabinet looks like an all-star team and we know it wasn't.
NYT: Lair of spin merchants and outright fabulists - nothing more.
When the NY Times starts putting the word "falsely" before alerting us to what Biden said, then I'll start reading the New York Times again.
When the NY Times starts putting the word "falsely" before alerting us to what Biden said, then I'll start reading the New York Times again.
I have always believed that Biden is the Walter Mitty of politics. He invents stories to make himself look better to himself. He has always been a liar and a fool. His election to the Senate was accomplished by the death of his wife and daughter in a traffic accident she caused. He has lied about that, too. His delusions were shattered by the debacle of 1988. He was resurrected by Obama for reasons that are a mystery. There are not very many Democrat Senators that are smart but Biden was the dumbest. Well, Patty Murray may be dumber, but not by much.
Biden sounds like a homeless hustler, who tells you whatever you want to hear as long as you give him a dollar. His entire life story changes depending on the needs at the time. At this point he probably does not know what the truth is anymore.
The thing is he would almost certainly pass a lie detector test, given he believes his own BS.
Three words: Maiden America!
Regarding Trump and Beiden, Democrats work by creating short term ploys that resolve a specific weakness which are intended to keep them ahead in the sequence of short terms. By being ahead in the short term they expect to stay in power long term by legislation that favors them in elections. This strategy failed in 2020.
Obviously they had no presidential timber and should have nominated a sacrificial candidate, and let Trump win. Even if Trump had good policy and avoided inflation, the public would not know they were better off, it would have been business as usual. The democrats could have kept the hate up for beating Hillary and the midterms and 2024 would have been landslide democrat victories, and Trump would have been gone for good in 2024. The democrats would have ruled for a decade.
Now the failure of the Beiden admin has created much Ill will toward democrats and they will not recover in time for 2024. A greedy short term approach has cost them much.
It's a Hell of a read.
Instance after instance of lies on top of lies, many called out as deliberate attempts to mislead for political advantage, not storytelling. The article is much more damning than the headline. Kind of a surprise.
I see there are no comments allowed. That would have been interesting.
The way the tide has suddenly turned against Biden reeks of coordination.
But who is pulling the strings?
Hillary? Obama? Journolist Part II?
"veer into folklore, exaggerated or wrong, the factual edges shaved off, Mr. Biden’s fictions, spinning embellished narratives"
Prog journalists have to deliver the message very delicately to fellow progs. But the knives are out.
Of course, Trump embellishes with the best of them, but has he plagiarized his own autobiography?
I'd like to see a side-by-side Althouse fisking of a Biden and a Trump speech. Hypothesis: Trump is generally more artful, deliberate, and funny in his BS.
Biden is a coal miner's daughter - born in Puerto Rico to a poor black family... his father sorted hay, delivered mail, was a union welder, a school teacher, and a priest. sniff sniff
Plus a cool song to go with.
Funny that the MSM Is just getting around to admitting that Biden is a serial liar. The narrative apparently is shifting because the powers that be want Biden gone. The question is how do they get rid of Harris? Look to the Agnew/Nixon saga from almost 50 years ago to see how it can be done without making it look too much like a coup.
he lied about how his wife died, it's hard to grok someone this mendacious, when the huntress spoke truth to power, 14 years ago, she was ridiculed,
The Times, trying to gently guide Biden toward that exit in 2024
"Biden Administration Plan Could Lead to Employee Status for Gig Workers"
Could lead to Unemployment status. But it's better to have an unemployed subject than a gig-worker citizen.
“Not a joke!”
Correct. It's a lie.
Biden interview with Tapper on CNN this evening.
In other news, Tokyo Rose will be interviewed by Bagdad Bob on Russia Today network this week.
I wonder which interview will will contain the fewest falsehoods.
Life was good under Trump. Fact.
All the left have are lies lies and more lies. Our hack-D press is corrupt. what else is there to say?
oh - Crook Biden and his brother and son are international grifters - Green-lighted by the FBI.
Shouting Thomas and Freeman Hunt sightings on the same day! All is good in the Althouse world.
Biden is a liar - but the hack press is still in love. His lies are for the common good.
Well I generally agree with what Tree Joe said--except that there is one little correction to be made. Joe was generally known as a dumb blowhard. He was also known as the dumbest man in the Senate. And that's no joke--my word as a Biden.
Readering: "Biden interview with Tapper on CNN this evening."
I wonder which hoaxes Biden's Earpiece will push during his inevitably lie-filled "interview" (where the questions have already been pre-shared, refined, and answers clearly placed before Slow Joe to read).
The Charlottesville-Trump called nazi's "fine people" hoax?
Trump told people to drink bleach hoax?
Russia Collusion hoax?
Pee tape hoax?
Interestingly, readering is still on board with each of the above hoaxes, and all the others as well.
Little Ezra Klein is an "earnest and honest" sack of dogshit.
Handmade tales.
TreeJoe - Spot On. He's the definition of "White Privilege" and the failing up of a mediocre, white man.
Stories
Yarns
Embellishments
Narratives
Folklore
Falsehoods
Exaggerations
Factual edges rounded off
Making them more powerful for audiences
Spinning
Loosely based on facts
Let's be charitable. It's hard for the NYT to call them "lies", when the mental capacity of the President is unknown.
So. You're saying Obamas third term isn't going very well?
Readering said...
"Biden interview with Tapper on CNN this evening."
Any bets as to the time the interview goes off the rails? My money is on two and a half minutes in.
So the Times signals to our allies, adversaries, and enemies that Armageddon Biden has always been a moron and exaggerator while mollifying the LIVs that Trump’s bullshit smells worse than Biden’s bullshit.
His Mind is Goin Blank!
When he speaks they have to walk everything back. They have rushed meetings, texts, calls, and spend the next week getting on the air and leaning over to tell the editors of the NYT and WaPo what to print and how to say it.
When he hides in Washington or flies away to his Fully Equipped Basement in Delaware, we're told that he's not taking up unnecessary airspace like that darned Donald Trump did.
When he makes bad foreign policy decisions we're told that he's just undoing what the darned Donald Trump did.
When he makes bad domestic policy we're told that he's undoing what that darn Donald Trump did.
Except that two years ago none of the things going on right now in this world were going on. None of them. And we had a President AND- get this!- a Vice President, who could speak in full sentences, giving out complete thoughts.
Ezra Klein was not kidding. Ezra Klein does not know how to kid. He's a progressive. There is nothing funny about life when you're a progressive. Everything is about your Cause and it's a full time job guarding and protecting the Cause at all points.
When he speaks they have to walk everything back. They have rushed meetings, texts, calls, and spend the next week getting on the air and leaning over to tell the editors of the NYT and WaPo what to print and how to say it.
When he hides in Washington or flies away to his Fully Equipped Basement in Delaware, we're told that he's not taking up unnecessary airspace like that darned Donald Trump did.
When he makes bad foreign policy decisions we're told that he's just undoing what the darned Donald Trump did.
When he makes bad domestic policy we're told that he's undoing what that darn Donald Trump did.
Except that two years ago none of the things going on right now in this world were going on. None of them. And we had a President AND- get this!- a Vice President, who could speak in full sentences, giving out complete thoughts.
Ezra Klein was not kidding. Ezra Klein does not know how to kid. He's a progressive. There is nothing funny about life when you're a progressive. Everything is about your Cause and it's a full time job guarding and protecting the Cause at all points.
Everything about Biden is a lie. One huge impenetrable web.
The well-targeted and very real election fraud pales in comparison to the fraud of sock puppet Biden et al. We supposedly elected someone who has no base of support. No one comes to his rallies. How can that be? We don’t know who is propping him up, calling the shots, or how many of them there are. This fraud is the penultimate fraud, and it is shameful that our great country endures it and doesn’t expose it.
It's a variation on the Althouse rule about reporting on the differences between men and women. Klein picked his side long ago and will always describe the Democratic side as superior, no matter the issues or facts.
He had to drop out of the Presidential race in the 80s because he lifted Neil Kinnock of the UK's biography in a speech, and co-opted it as his own.
He claimed he was on scholarship and graduated with two majors towards the top of his class. All blatant lies.
If you lie about something as easily-checked as your life history, what else do you lie about?
Answer: anything that forwards your interests, because you've learned that there are no real consequences for your lies.
When the NYT runs that, it's gonna be Gavin 'whether you like it or not.'
It looks like they've given up on defending the 81 million votes!
The way the tide has suddenly turned against Biden reeks of coordination.
You’ll know the fix is in when Hunter Biden is indicted for laundering money on behalf of his father rather than for a minor gun charge.
You can’t expect an imbecile with dementia to remember things accurately, can you?
In 2000 Richard Cohen of the Washington Post compared Reagan's "fibs" to Al Gore's. The idea seems to have been that Reagan's "lies"--mixing up a story from the movies with reality--may not have been fewer or better in any way, but Reagan sold them better. Cohen can't resist mentioning the Chicago "welfare queen"; this was in no way a lie on Reagan's part. He was calling a piece of very solid reporting which actually understated the extent to which this woman defrauded welfare programs and committed very serious crimes.
Here.
Biden has lied about what is happening on the southern border--a serious matter of public policy. He has lied in saying that measures to keep elections secure are "Jim Crow 2." He has lied about MAGA voters and domestic terrorism. Detailed and specific lies implying that his political opponents have routinely committed serious crimes.
Interesting bit about no comments allowed. I wonder what the NYT readers think of Ezra Klein being able to write such an article considering how they reacted to Sen. Tom Cotton.
Readering informs us, "Biden interview with Tapper on CNN this evening."
The demented liar and the demented liar's protector have a scripted "conversation". Jolly, jolly... just perfect for the heretofore willingly blind and deaf to remain willingly blinkered and muffled. What shall they talk about, do you think? Ice cream and Corn Pop?
No one with more than two neurons will be fooled by that disgusting display of political corruption abetted by journalistic corruption. Let Biden face Peter Doocy without a pre-approved script, without forbidden questions, in real-time without edits, and no earpiece, then the decent Americans who respect our Constitution, our laws and traditions will give him a final chance to redeem himself.
Estaban writes, "[Biden is] the definition of "White Privilege" and the failing up of a mediocre, white man."
Mediocre white man isn't a description of Joe Biden, It's an unobtainable goal.
My absolute fave was cornpop the nonexistent gangster tough guy. Corn pop! The gull journalists wrote it down n their journalist notebooks. They actually wrote down the word(?)s corn pop. Lol
Biden leveraged a frat-boy's nastiness into the top job in the world. George W. did the same. But Biden is much nastier that W. He's really in a class by himself. It's small comfort to see even the left starting to admit it but I guess I'll take it.
It would be easier to list the things Biden hasn't lied about or made up. Probably some where around zero should do it.
Joseph Blau said: "A greedy short term approach has cost them much."
The media and top Democrats are in meetings now war-gaming a complete suspension of all elections "to save our Democracy."
Because you see if Trump gets elected again, he'll "appoint loyalists" instead of Democrats to his cabinet. He'll "seize government power" on Day 1 of his 2nd term. He'll appoint a "MAGA civil service" (as opposed to a BLM Civil Service).
He's going to "deploy the military" while "retreating abroad" meaning he's going to end the illegal shadow wars being conducted by Biden's CIA without Congressional authorization.
All of this stuff is normal President stuff. Just ordinary policy. But the media, WaPo and their hand-picked "experts," are literally war-gaming the suspension of elections in 2024 to prevent a second Trump presidency. Watch what they start doing after the November mid-terms and they lose all control of the Congress.
They know if he gets elected again, they're going to go to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba for the rest of their short lives.
Joseph Blau said: "A greedy short term approach has cost them much."
The media and top Democrats are in meetings now war-gaming a complete suspension of all elections "to save our Democracy."
Because you see if Trump gets elected again, he'll "appoint loyalists" instead of Democrats to his cabinet. He'll "seize government power" on Day 1 of his 2nd term. He'll appoint a "MAGA civil service" (as opposed to a BLM Civil Service).
He's going to "deploy the military" while "retreating abroad" meaning he's going to end the illegal shadow wars being conducted by Biden's CIA without Congressional authorization.
All of this stuff is normal President stuff. Just ordinary policy. But the media, WaPo and their hand-picked "experts," are literally war-gaming the suspension of elections in 2024 to prevent a second Trump presidency. Watch what they start doing after the November mid-terms and they lose all control of the Congress.
They know if he gets elected again, they're going to go to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba for the rest of their short lives.
The left lied about Trump FAR FAR FAR more than Trump ever lied about anything.
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You can’t expect an imbecile with dementia to remember things accurately, can you?
hmmm, so; what was Biden's excuse 10 years ago? 20? 30? 40? 50?
The Charlottesville-Trump called nazi's "fine people" hoax?
Trump told people to drink bleach hoax?
Russia Collusion hoax?
Pee tape hoax?
Interestingly, readering is still on board with each of the above hoaxes, and all the others as well.
readering? any comments? is it true that you still believe each (or any) of these?
please let us know.
Joe Biden Hit Song- My Mind's Going Blank Now
Ive noticed the polished ads Newsome is running recently. Now this. Folks, brace yourselves. Newsome is on the way, and will be worse than Biden, because he has a functioning brain.
Funny how they never call Biden a lying liar who lies (despite a large number of actual lies told by Biden) while they causally called Trump with no evidence that he was lying.
Biden loved his son too much to say "no" when asked for a favor. That's the President's biggest weakness -- loving too much.
Storyteller? Fabulist?
Do you mean to tell me that Joe Biden, the Catholic altar boy raised by Puerto Rican black Jewstruck driver who earned three degrees during his award-winning semesters at law school, the man who was arrested with Nelson Mandela, and hit the longest home run ever recorded at the Congressional baseball game, the financial whiz kid who turned a senator's pay into a multimillionaire fortune for himself and his entire family....
Are you saying that he exaggerated?
I can't believe it!
I'd rather have Hillary as President than Gavin Newsom. At least Hillary would stay bought.
Michael K: The December fatal accident followed the election. Ot was Reported that Maj Leader Mike Mansfield had to talk the Senator-elect into going forward with taking office in January.
Same NYT once tried to document all of Trump’s lies.
’…what was Biden's excuse 10 years ago? 20? 30? 40? 50?’
Just the imbecile part.
There actually was a Corn Pop. Whether things went down as Biden said isn't certain, though. Biden likes to appropriate other people's stories and make them his own.
I've never understood what they mean when they talk about Trump's lies. I guess he lies in some particular special way. But all American politicians never tell the truth. Ever. They only say what they think will help them get what they want.
When is the last time you heard one say - ever - "Actually, that is a good point you made."
I guess Unknown is not the same as unknown.
There actually was a Corn Pop.
Prove it. Start with a legal name.
Pure speculation but suppose the demmies and repos are doing a deal.
Brandon resigns after the midterms, kamala becomes president. Voila! 1st womam prez is a dem.
Trump is nominated and confirmed as vp. Kamala resigns and trump becomes prez.
This all has to happen in nov/Dec so he serves more than 2 years. This prevents him from running in '24 or ever.
How much could he get done in 2 years if both parties work to hobble him?
It might be the only way to put a proverbial stake in the vampire's heart. He's just not going away otherwise.
I, of course, would hope that he strings it out till January so he serves a few days short of 2years and can run again in 24.that would give him 10 years in the presidency
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The December fatal accident followed the election. [I]t was Reported that Maj Leader Mike Mansfield had to talk the Senator-elect into going forward with taking office in January.
First, because it is absolutely correct to acknowledge this facts: Joe Biden has had more than his share of tragedy.
Second: he didn't have to parlay his personal tragedies into political gain - he chose to do that. Making his wife and child the victim of a drink driver when they weren't. Making his son the victim of chemical warfare when it's unlikely - or implying that his son's death was related to combat when it wasn't.
Third: "it was reported"... Do I need to complete that thought?
Even psychopaths can experience tragedies - they just don't care, except insofar as they can use them. Is Biden a psychopath? I have no idea. But the way he lies certainly leaves that door open.
That's a long column just to say the obvious that Biden lies his ass off. What's interesting is when they will ever write an article about the democrat butt sniffing press that has allowed it to go on unchallenged for decades.
Joe Biden told his house fire story again, and THIS time, 2 fireman almost died.
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Joe Biden just claimed today that "we almost lost a couple firefighters" when lightning struck his home 15 years ago.
According to a report from the time, the lighting strike caused "a small fire contained to the kitchen" that "was under control in 20 minutes."
At least Hillary would stay bought.
@alanc709, what makes you believe that?
Clinton was not only a good liar, but he was an entertaining one.
@minnesota, I disagree. His standard lie was “I feel your pain.” Neither a good lie nor an entertaining one.
Ezra Klein famously wrote an article saying that the US Veterans Administration health system was a good model for an American national health care system.
The man doesn't know anything. He and Biden are a good match. Maybe Ezra can write Biden's official biography.
The problem for Democrats isn't that Biden lies, it's that he's so bad at it.
Corn Pop's name was William Morris. His obituary is here. That doesn't mean that everything that Biden said happened actually happened.
When is the last time you heard one say - ever - "Actually, that is a good point you made."
Actually, it is a great debate strategy if you are not too egotistical to use it.
Pick your moment and use on an issue that does have some gray areas and it can be very effective. Makes you look more tolerant than your opponent who then feel like they need to reciprocate in order to regain some control.
Readering said...
"Biden interview with Tapper on CNN this evening."
"Any bets as to the time the interview goes off the rails? My money is on two and a half minutes in."
I lose! He went off the rails in the first 10 seconds.
81 million, huh. You guys got to be so proud.
Does anyone believe the Corn Pop story?
How about the top of his law school class?
Academic scholarship? Athletic scholarship?
Appointment to the Naval Academy he turned down?
A drunk driver killed his wife and child?
He's always been middle class. (note his wealthy linage was wiped from Wikipedia prior to his VP nomination)
He's driven over the road big rigs?
He met his present wife on a blind date?
He was raise Puerto Rican?
He marched in the Civil rights movement?
There are so many BS stories it's impossible to remember them all. True is Bo Biden was probably the only one in that whole family with good character.
And now his son died in Iraq. Not the (unprovable) died due to long term effect of burn pits, but actually overseas.
Beau Biden was a JAG (lawyer) stationed at Camp Victory, but somehow he was awarded a Bronze Star by Chief of staff of the Army Raymond Thomas Odierno. Nice to be a Senator's / VP's son.
Camp Victory was pure Hell! Google it!
Camp Victory contained the Sports Oasis dining facility (DFAC) and the Coalition Cafe. There were also several chain restaurants, located near the PX on Camp Liberty; including a Pizza Hut, a Subway, a Cinnabon, a Burger King, a Taco Bell, and a Green Beans coffee cafe. Additionally a new bowling center were opened to the northwest of Camp Victory main and a Turkish restaurant/hookah/coffee bar near Lost Lake just east of Dodge City North.
Brandon is in no way a gold Star father, Brandon is a congenital liar.
the president, over nearly five decades in public life, has been unable to break himself of the habit of spinning embellished narratives, sometimes only loosely based on the facts…
So says the New York Times, before assuring us that "Trump is worse." Worse at what? The Times can't say "lying," because the Times won't say that Biden lies. You can see that by doing a Google search for "Trump lied" (in quotation marks) on nytimes.com, which turns up 118 results, including this article. And that's only that exact phrase. The same Google search with "Biden" instead of "Trump" gives only one result: a news article saying that Trump's Press Secretary "falsely" tweeted that "Biden lied" (and Trump retweeted it).
What if we vary the wording and search for "Trump lies"? 945 results. "Biden lies"? Two results, and they're flukes of wording that aren't saying he ever lied (e.g. "The real cause of the unease about Mr. Biden lies elsewhere").
A slightly different search for "Trump's lies" on the NYT site brings up 461 results. "Biden's lies": zero results.
So you see, Biden doesn't lie. When Biden says things that are clearly false in ways that seem consistently designed to help him, it isn't a lie but a "habit" he's "been unable to break himself of." It's really an addiction, so you should feel bad about yourself if you criticize him for it.
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