The New York Times has finally gotten around to a fact check of some of Joe Biden’s lies.
But what’s funny about it is how much they try to gild the lily and smooth them over, even as they acknowledge they’re not true. The fact that they’re even going to that trouble suggests to me that they know there’s a big problem for Biden, or they wouldn’t be trying to address the question. Democrats are desperate at this point because Biden is so unpopular. Part of that is the lies, not just the incompetence and incoherence. People don’t believe they can trust a man who lies about even the simplest things to try to pander/deceive people.
Now the NYT only hit on some of the lies; If they were to do them all they’d still be writing and wouldn’t be finishing anytime soon. But check out how they describe them. The language is something else:
In President Biden’s telling, he was a teenage civil rights activist, a former trucker, the first in his family to go to college and the nephew of a cannibalism victim.
All of these claims stretch the truth or are downright false. But Mr. 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.
No, they’re all “downright false.” But they’re not lies, they’re “personal tales with rhetorical flourishes and factual liberty”–and just his way of trying to connect to people and be charming. They even use the term “yarns.”
Um, guys? Pandering and lying to people is not charming, it’s just lying, particularly when telling them things to identify with them and have them vote for you. That’s lying to get their vote.
But the very objective, not at all biased publication then tries to spin how Biden isn’t as bad as Trump:
Despite Mr. 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 J. Trump.
A White House spokesman, Andrew Bates, said that Mr. Biden had “brought honesty and integrity back to the White House” and that he shared life experiences that had shaped his outlook.