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Biden Loves to Tell Tall Tales. We Cut Them Down to Size.
The New York Times | Yahoo ^ | June 9, 2024 | by Linda Qiu (D-NYT)

Posted on 06/10/2024 6:43:48 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

WASHINGTON — In President Joe Biden’s telling, he was a teenage civil rights activist, a former trucker, the first in his family to go college and the nephew of a cannibalism victim.

All of these claims stretch the truth or are downright false. But Biden persists in telling personal tales with rhetorical flourishes and factual liberty when he works a room or regales an audience. They are a way to connect with voters, emphasize his “middle-class Joe” persona and charm his audience.

Despite Biden’s penchant for exaggerating details when recounting episodes from his life, these autobiographical embellishments differ in scale and significance from the stream of lies about a stolen election peddled by his opponent, former President Donald Trump.

A White House spokesperson, Andrew Bates, said that Biden had “brought honesty and integrity back to the White House” and that he shared life experiences that had shaped his outlook.

Here are some of the president’s most repeated yarns...

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


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
... Biden’s telling, he was a teenage civil rights activist, a former trucker, the first in his family to go college and the nephew of a cannibalism victim. All of these claims stretch the truth or are downright false...

Where are the so called 'fact checkers' like when a Republican's President?

21 posted on 06/10/2024 8:00:59 AM PDT by GOPJ (WOKE DEI hires - an easy way to place hard core commies and sexual weirdos into top corporate spots)
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To: simpson96

yep, biden tells tall tales, trump lies ... the bias couldn’t be more obvious ...


22 posted on 06/10/2024 8:01:20 AM PDT by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

So Biden is cute kindly uncle telling tall tales. Mean evil Orange man tells real lies.
Expect this propaganda to be on all the news outlets within the next week.


23 posted on 06/10/2024 8:19:04 AM PDT by willk (Local news media. Just as big an enemy to this country as national media)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
polish that turd
24 posted on 06/10/2024 9:38:37 AM PDT by SisterK (it's controlled demolition)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

When I saw the headline, I was shocked the NYT would do a story highlighting Biden’s lies. Within a few sentences, however, it became apparent that the Times was actually defending Biden by painting his lies as an innocent attempt to connect with voters. Then, they use it to disparage Trump, but of course.


25 posted on 06/10/2024 9:45:19 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I don’t think anyone in the mainstream media believes Biden’s stories. If they did, they would have tried to interview Corn Pop by now.


26 posted on 06/10/2024 3:19:45 PM PDT by Berosus (I wish I had as much faith in God as liberals have in government.)
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

7. Captain of the Enterprise on its 5 year mission with R2D2 and Princess Leia.
8. Drove his Corvette around Dead Man’s Curve (and beat the Jaguar) without crashing. Wrote a song about it for Jan and Dean.


27 posted on 06/10/2024 7:14:48 PM PDT by John Milner (Marching for Peace is like breathing for food.)
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