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Fact-check: Was Joe Biden a full professor for four years?
Yahoo News ^ | April 29, 2022 | By Louis Jacobson

Posted on 04/29/2022 5:58:16 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Our ruling:

Biden said, "For four years, I was a full professor at the University of Pennsylvania."

Biden served as a "professor of the practice" at the University of Pennsylvania. However, the duration of his position was closer to two years, since he was on unpaid leave while running for president. His duties of his particular professorship did not include the same degree of teaching, research, and administrative responsibilities that some would associate with someone holding a position as "full professor."

We rate the statement Half True.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: bidenvoters; brandon; elonmusk; journalism; media; musk; press; truthsocial; twitter
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1 posted on 04/29/2022 5:58:16 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What do you need a truth minister for when you have yahoo?


2 posted on 04/29/2022 6:01:53 AM PDT by Baldwin
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Yes, I believe he taught a course on ethics. /s


3 posted on 04/29/2022 6:02:44 AM PDT by duckman ( Not tired of winning!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Half true?

They make up new categories for their boy.


4 posted on 04/29/2022 6:03:10 AM PDT by Celerity
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

He was only at it for two of the four years and his duties during the two years weren’t that of a full professor.

I’d rate it as 1/4 true and that is being very very generous. In reality it is simply not true and should be rated as false.


5 posted on 04/29/2022 6:05:01 AM PDT by jacknhoo ( Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: jacknhoo

Exactly what I was thinking. Ha.

BUMP


6 posted on 04/29/2022 6:06:43 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Warning: Accused of being a radical militarist. Approach with caution.)
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To: Baldwin

Slow Joe’s new disinformation governance board could spend all day every day investigating the lies, half truths, prevarications, equivocations, and fibs of him and his administration and supporters.


7 posted on 04/29/2022 6:07:12 AM PDT by Cecily
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To: Celerity

That’s become an occasional title at a few suck-up colleges. (Gotta keep those grants and donations rolling in!)

But did Ol’ Joe actually teach any classes there? Yahoo phrases it to sound as if he did, but then again could not have.

Wikipedia has it: “After leaving the vice presidency, Biden became an honorary professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Titled the “Benjamin Franklin Presidential Practice Professor”, Biden led panel discussions on history and politics and developed the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement.[291]”

Yahoo was clearly fudging for him.


8 posted on 04/29/2022 6:07:36 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I thought it was an honorary degree.


9 posted on 04/29/2022 6:07:41 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: jacknhoo

I’m guessing math & statistics were never the writer’s strong subjects.


10 posted on 04/29/2022 6:08:04 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Warning: Accused of being a radical militarist. Approach with caution.)
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To: nuconvert

Don’t play their idiotic games... There’s no such thing as a half truth except in INGSOC. It’s an outright lie.


11 posted on 04/29/2022 6:08:39 AM PDT by JerseyDvl (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Both the duration and the title are completely false and not half true.


12 posted on 04/29/2022 6:09:46 AM PDT by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
He might have been
13 posted on 04/29/2022 6:10:04 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
We rate the statement Half True

They need to check the math. He was less than a full professor (call it half) and he held the position for about 1/2 the time he said.

1/2 x 1/2 = 1/4.

I generously rate it 1/4 true. If anyone objects, I would be happy to recalculate to zero after pointing out that he was never a full professor.

14 posted on 04/29/2022 6:12:29 AM PDT by Gil4 (And the trees are all kept equal by hatchet, ax and saw)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Isn’t half true called a lie?


15 posted on 04/29/2022 6:14:25 AM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Ruling: Half True

AKA: False.

16 posted on 04/29/2022 6:16:15 AM PDT by Mr.Unique (My boss wants me to sign up for a 401K. No way I'm running that far! )
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To: V_TWIN

Yuck
8 had nit seen that pic.
He is disgusting


17 posted on 04/29/2022 6:18:27 AM PDT by RWGinger (Does anyone else really )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

No, total lie.
UPenn bribed him to talk a couple times for money.

That’s where those Wharton dollars go.
I believe they also gave $100 million to the ghetto public schools in Philly.
Who wants to bet if it has any effect on black education?
Anyone?...


18 posted on 04/29/2022 6:19:32 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

they misspelled FOOL professor


19 posted on 04/29/2022 6:19:48 AM PDT by Jolla
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To: Baldwin

Yahoo News just hired Omid Scobie.

That says it all, doesn’t it?


20 posted on 04/29/2022 6:22:12 AM PDT by mewzilla (We need to repeal RCV wherever it's in use and go back to dumb voting machines.)
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