Demented Liar Joe Biden: Beau Biden Died In Iraq
(Jake Tapper Isn't Running a Snarky Chyron Here, But If He Did, It Would Say: "No He Didn't")

Stolen valor.

Matt Margolis reminds:

Joe Biden has often invoked his late son Beau Biden.

For example, after his botched withdrawal from Afghanistan he evoked his late son in a shameless effort to avoid criticism of his actions.

"So, when I hear that we could've, should've continued the so-called low-grade effort in Afghanistan, at low risk to our service members, at low cost, I don't think enough people understand how much we have asked of the 1 percent of this country who put that uniform on, who are willing to put their lives on the line in defense of our nation," Biden said last year when he announced the war in Afghanistan was now officially over. "Maybe it's because my deceased son, Beau, served in Iraq for a full year, before that."

He spoke about Beau Biden dying of brain cancer, as if that was the same as dying in a lost cause war -- during a catastrophic withdrawal Biden ordered.

At least then, he acknowledged that Beau Biden died of brain cancer. He didn't claim he was KIA.

Now Biden just straight-up lies that Beau Biden was killed in Iraq:

Only in the past week has the New York Times discovered that Joe Biden is a serial liar. Who knew?!!?

Tim Graham at TownHall:

The online headline of their Oct. 11 story was: "Biden, Storyteller in Chief, Spins Yarns That Often Unravel." The subtitle: "President Biden has been unable to break himself of the habit of embellishing narratives to weave a political identity."

Times reporters Michael Shear and Linda Qiu began with Biden telling survivors of Hurricane Ian that he and Jill lost most of a house to a lightning strike. That's not true. News reports at the time described it as "a small fire" that was "contained to the kitchen." They said this wasn't an isolated embellishment. They noted Biden once told this story as "having had a house burn down with my wife in it."

The Times explained, "The exaggerated biography that Mr. Biden tells includes having been a fierce civil rights activist who was repeatedly arrested. He has claimed to have been an award-winning student who earned three degrees. And last week, speaking on the hurricane-devastated island of Puerto Rico, he said he had been 'raised in the Puerto Rican community at home, politically.'"

They said Biden has long "embraced storytelling as a way of connecting with his audience ... 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."

Note how lying for political advantage is recast as "storytelling to connect with an audience."

That's what lying always is! Lying is always about attempting to manipulate a target (an "audience") into sympathizing with you and giving you what you want!

It's so Different When Democrats Do It (TM)!

But here's the interesting part. Qiu is the paper's designated "fact-checker." So, if Biden is habitually spinning yarns that unravel, she must be busy with Biden checks, right? No. She hasn't "fact-checked" Biden since Aug.20, 2021, on the Afghanistan withdrawal fiasco under an extremely mild headline: "Clarifying Biden's Take of Evacuation."

A peek at her archive of articles since then includes at least 14 "fact-checks" of Republicans and/or conservatives. This 14-to-1 imbalance in target selection would remind you of PolitiFact -- which makes sense because that's where Qiu worked before joining the Times.

Qiu avoids noting that Biden has repeatedly lied about being "shot at" in hostile territory.

Jake Tapper's snarky chyron says: "No, he wasn't."

President Biden on Thursday told State Department employees he was "shot at" overseas -- reviving a claim that previously stirred controversy.

"You have great personal courage. I've been with some of you when we've been shot at," Biden told a group of diplomatic aides in Washington.

Biden did not offer a detailed description of being shot at. But he was forced to walk back a similar claim in 2007 as veterans warned him not to exaggerate.

Biden said during a CNN-hosted Democratic presidential debate in 2007 that he was "shot at" inside Baghdad's fortified Green Zone.

He later revised the claim, saying that in fact, "I was near where a shot landed."

More accurately: I heard-tell of some shots in the distance.

Patrick Campbell, then legislative director for Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, told The Hill at the time, "Veterans don't like it when people mischaracterize their service, people who overstate what happens to them. We have names for them."

George Washington University professor Stephen Hess said in 2007 that the claim "fits into [Biden's] profile, and that's exactly why he should be terribly careful about statements that may not quite parse out or deconstruct under scrutiny."

Biden has a reputation for gaffes and stretching the truth. He said incorrectly in 2008 "I am a hard coal miner," and was forced to drop out of the 1988 Democratic presidential primary for plagiarism of speeches and a law school paper.

Joe Biden routinely lies about the deaths of family members for applause lines, of course. He has defamed the man involved in the car collision that killed his first wife for decades, constantly claiming he was a "drunk driver" when in fact he was as sober as a preacher in the desert.

Not only was he not drunk, he wasn't even at fault in the collision -- Biden's wife blew through a stop sign at an intersection, precipitating the collision, which the truck driver tried to avoid.

The worst moment of Joseph R. Biden's life -- the 1972 car crash that killed his wife and baby daughter -- has drawn renewed attention over a falsehood that the former vice president repeated for years: that the other driver was drunk.

From 2001-07, Mr. Biden indicated at least twice that the tractor-trailer driver who hit his wife's car had been drinking, even though the state official who oversaw the investigation and the driver's daughter said that wasn't true.

During the 2008 presidential campaign, Pamela Hamill, the daughter of driver Curtis C. Dunn, called on Mr. Biden to apologize publicly after he told a crowd that her father "drank his lunch" before the accident, according to a 2008 article in the Newark [Delaware] Post.

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"A tractor-trailer, a guy who allegedly -- and I never pursued it -- drank his lunch instead of eating his lunch, broadsided my family and killed my wife instantly and killed my daughter instantly and hospitalized my two sons," Mr. Biden said in 2007.

In a 2001 speech at the University of Delaware, he referred to an "errant driver who stopped to drink instead of drive" and "hit my children and my wife and killed them," according to a 2008 report in NewsBusters, citing a 2001 "Inside Edition" report.

Mr. Biden apparently stopped making the claim after a burst of media attention.

In a January article in Politico, Ms. Hamill said that Mr. Biden called her to apologize following a 2009 CBS report on the discrepancy.

"He apologized for hurting my family in any way," she said. "So we accepted that -- and kind of end of story from there."

Mr. Dunn, who died in 1999, hit the station wagon driven by 30-year-old Neilia Biden as she drove to buy a Christmas tree with the Bidens' three young children: Beau, 4; Hunter, 3, and Naomi, 13 months.

The rig overturned as Mr. Dunn swerved to avoid the collision, but he "ran to the wrecked car and was the first to offer assistance," the Post reported.

Now-retired Delaware Superior Court Judge Jerome O. Herlihy, who oversaw the investigation as chief deputy attorney general, told Politico, "She had a stop sign. The truck driver did not."

In 2008, he told the Post that rumors about alcohol playing a role in the accident were "incorrect."

This is awful. Did you know for years @JoeBiden told people his wife and 13-month-old daughter were killed by a drunk driver, when in fact the accident was tragically her fault. The truck driver was haunted by the accident until he died.https://t.co/f41yNvU8RY

-- Rosie memos (@almostjingo) October 16, 2019

Townhall's Guy Benson called the vice president's inaccurate references to drinking, which first appeared in 2001, "bizarre and disturbing."

He's a liar. He also r@ped at least one woman, nuzzled and rubbed up on many more, and habitually showered with his underage daughter, not that anyone seems to care about that.

Remember all this when David French the rest of the Secular Sermonizers swear on a pack of Bibles they plainly do not believe a word of that "Joe Biden is a good and honorable man."

posted by Ace at 02:05 PM

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