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Fact Check: Biden Claims He Was ‘Appointed’ to Naval Academy, Roger Staubach Prevented Him from Attending
Breitbart ^ | 05/25/2024 | ELIZABETH WEIBEL

Posted on 05/25/2024 5:05:36 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

CLAIM: President Joe Biden claimed during a commencement speech at the United States Military Academy West Point that he turned down an offer to play football at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.

VERDICT: False.

Biden has previously told different versions of this claim to graduates at the U.S. Naval Academy and the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado.

In his claim, Biden says he applied to the Naval Academy in order to play football. He was appointed to the Naval Academy by former Delaware Sen. J. Caleb Boggs (R) in 1965. However, the president graduated from the University of Delaware in 1965, which makes it unlikely he would have applied to attend the Naval Academy then.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: appointed; biden; navalacademy; pathologicalliar; staubach
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To: Hyman Roth
He couldn’t hold Roger’s jock strap

So true. Roger Staubach was one of the all time great QBs both at college level and in the pros. He threw the first Hail Mary pass, remember? He is also a genuinely good man. Biden, on the other hand, is beneath pond scum.

21 posted on 05/25/2024 7:04:13 PM PDT by Avalon Memories (Joe Biden puts illegal aliens first. I put America first! - Donald Trump, 5/23/24)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Also Neil Armstrong barred Biden from the door of the Luna Lander so Armstrong would be the first man in the moon...


22 posted on 05/25/2024 7:16:26 PM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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To: WKUHilltopper

“Tha’s right. They called me ‘Buzz Biden’ cuz my brain was always comin’ up with crazy ideas for landin’ on the moon. ‘You buzzin’ me, man?’ That’s what they’d tell me. My word as a Biden.”


23 posted on 05/25/2024 7:23:53 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: Avalon Memories

The predecessor to the Hail Mary: The alley-oop is an American football play in which the quarterback throws the ball high into the air, and another player jumps up and catches it. The play was developed in 1957 by San Francisco 49ers players Y. A. Tittle and R. C. Owens. The play was named after V. T. Hamlin’s comic strip character Alley Oop; Owens himself was also known as “Alley Oop”. Biden will now claim that he was known as Alley Oop.


24 posted on 05/25/2024 7:27:21 PM PDT by Bookshelf
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To: Steve_Seattle
And our repulsive media give him a pass for all of his BS.

A point very high on my irritation list. Biden lies and lies and lies, and I don't care if he believes it all true or not. What matters is that the DNC Propaganda Machine (the MSM) never challenges him, all the while refusing to interview Trump because, as they claim, you can't believe a word he says.

Worthless SOBs

25 posted on 05/25/2024 7:27:27 PM PDT by Robwin ( )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Only conservative websites point out they’re Lies.

So 90% of the people have no clue

Republicans could’ve pointed out these lies his entire career, but they love them some Joe.


26 posted on 05/25/2024 7:41:45 PM PDT by OakOak (Misinformation Campaign on your TV)
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To: MIchaelTArchangel

More like Forrest Gump.


27 posted on 05/25/2024 8:29:47 PM PDT by TigersEye (Our Republic is under seige by globalist Marxists. Hold fast!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Too bad Clint Longley punched Staubach instead of Biden.


28 posted on 05/25/2024 8:36:32 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: TigersEye

Nah, Forrest Gump had talent.


29 posted on 05/25/2024 8:49:29 PM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel
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To: Regulator

Naval Academy appointee???

Naaahhh, but he mighta made a good SLJO,


30 posted on 05/25/2024 10:19:57 PM PDT by Clutch Martin ("The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." )
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To: Bookshelf
"Biden will now claim that he was known as Alley Oop."

Alley Poop is more accurate.

31 posted on 05/25/2024 10:40:50 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

And he has always maintained that his victory where he obtained his current job was fair and square, completely aboveboard, honest and true, genuine and legitimate.

32 posted on 05/25/2024 10:55:05 PM PDT by Songcraft
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Way to tarnish one of the greatest QB’s ever... The Comeback Kid. Last QB Dallas ever had that kept you glued to the tube. Sure don’t make em like that anymore. FJB.... the only thing he’s good at slinging stinks everything up.


33 posted on 05/25/2024 11:13:26 PM PDT by LastDayz (A blunt and brazen Texan. I will not be assimilated.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Joe is the all time king of sea stories despite always having been a landlubber. The kinds of tall tales he tells - some are truly unique, including the one where he talks about his dad’s supposed tolerance for public displays of affection by gay men back in the 50s.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/03/15/three-reasons-doubt-bidens-story-his-father-gay-kiss/


34 posted on 05/26/2024 1:22:38 AM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room)
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To: Zhang Fei

There is no group too small for Ol’ Joe to pander to..


35 posted on 05/26/2024 5:32:59 AM PDT by Walrus (I do not consent)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

He probably believes this happened.

Yep a lie isn’t a lie if you believe it he’s crazy.


36 posted on 05/26/2024 7:34:00 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Words long ago stopped meaning anything to this dumb, out-of-touch, now-senile hack.


37 posted on 05/26/2024 8:23:20 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: ridesthemiles

“IN AN HONEST WORLD, HE WOULD BE IN A HEAVILY PADDED ROOM.”

**************

If he was a Republican that’s where he would be.


38 posted on 05/26/2024 8:30:37 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: Regulator; Liz; Red Badger; SunkenCiv

Even that excuse (Boggs may have nominated Biden for a Naval Academy appointment) fails outright.

If Biden had already graduated from Maryland with a Bachelors degree, he WOULD NOT be considered for any USNA appointment at all since their primary job is to prep and pass through high school grads into a BS and future junior Navy Officer positions as ensigns/2nd Lt.


39 posted on 05/26/2024 8:54:26 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
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To: Robert A Cook PE

When Biden tells these half-baked stories, he thinks he’s
being “folksy” ....... just being appealing to the everday folk.

He always forgets he’s not in Delaware any more where the morons suck that stuff up.


40 posted on 05/26/2024 9:52:05 AM PDT by Liz (This then is how we should pray: Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name . )
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