{"id":1684047,"date":"2022-10-11T16:23:58","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T20:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1684047"},"modified":"2022-10-11T16:24:23","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T20:24:23","slug":"ny-times-ripped-over-euphemism-stuffed-report-on-bidens-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ny-times-ripped-over-euphemism-stuffed-report-on-bidens-lies\/","title":{"rendered":"NY Times Ripped Over &#8220;Euphemism-Stuffed&#8221; Report on Biden&#8217;s Lies"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fny-times-ripped-over-euphemism-stuffed-report-on-bidens-lies%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1684047&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"speakable\">The New York Times was mocked Tuesday for a euphemism-stuffed report on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/joe-biden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">President Biden\u2019s falsehoods<\/a>, filled with such softened language as &#8220;embellished narratives, sometimes only loosely based on the facts, to weave together his political identity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The article, &#8220;Biden, Storyteller in Chief, Spins Yarns That Often Unravel,&#8221; by reporter Michael Shear and fact-checker Linda Qiu, noted the president &#8220;has been unable to break himself of the habit of embellishing narratives to weave a political identity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/organization\/the-new-york-times\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Times piece spotlighted<\/a> Biden\u2019s recent claim that he &#8220;had a house burn down with my wife in it&#8221; when it turned out to actually be a small kitchen fire that was under control in 20 minutes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 767px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>\n      The New York Times was mocked Tuesday for euphemism-stuffed report on President Biden\u2019s falsehoods.<br \/>\n      <span class=\"copyright\">(REUTERS\/Shannon Stapleton\/File Photo \u00a0| \u00a0Getty Images)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/bill-maher-defends-biden-complaints-age-wheres-jackie-gaffe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>BILL MAHER DEFENDS BIDEN FROM COMPLAINTS OF HIS AGE FOLLOWING &#8216;WHERE&#8217;S JACKIE?&#8217; GAFFE<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The story is not an isolated example of embellishment,&#8221; the Times noted. &#8220;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 \u2018raised in the Puerto Rican community at home, politically.\u2019&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>None of the claims made by Biden were accurate.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Biden\u2019s folksiness can veer into folklore, with dates that don\u2019t quite add up and details that are exaggerated or wrong, the factual edges shaved off to make them more powerful for audiences,&#8221; the Times reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/new-york-times-column-praises-bidens-divisive-rhetoric-cant-talk-about-maga-america-in-hushed-tones\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Times also made sure to note<\/a> that former President Trump &#8220;lied constantly&#8221; and &#8220;Biden\u2019s fictions are nowhere near that scale&#8221; before admitting Biden isn\u2019t exactly truthful himself.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The president, over nearly five decades in public life, has been unable to break himself of the habit of spinning embellished narratives, sometimes only loosely based on the facts, to weave together his political identity. And they provide political ammunition for Republicans eager to tar him as too feeble to run for re-election in two years,&#8221; the Times article said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;His stories have been repeatedly and publicly challenged, as far back as his 1987 campaign for president, when his\u00a0attempts to adopt someone else\u2019s life story\u00a0as his own, and his false claims about his academic record, forced him to withdraw,&#8221; the article continued.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/white-house-feeling-trepidation-bidens-80th-birthday-downplay-celebration-politico-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>WHITE HOUSE FEELING &#8216;TREPIDATION&#8217; OVER BIDEN&#8217;S 80TH BIRTHDAY, WILL \u2018DOWNPLAY\u2019 CELEBRATION: POLITICO REPORT<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 767px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Biden.png\" alt=\"President Biden has been exaggerating stories for decades, The New York Times pointed out.\u00a0\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>\n      President Biden has been exaggerating stories for decades, The New York Times pointed out.\u00a0<br \/>\n      <span class=\"copyright\">(The Image Direct for Fox News Digital)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Times then spoke with a Biden spokesperson who &#8220;disputed the characterization of Mr. Biden as a serial exaggerator&#8221; and an author who insists Biden\u2019s constant lies are harmless.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With Biden, people have decided these are not the kind of lies that matter,&#8221; author Eric Alterman told the Times. &#8220;These are the kinds of lies that people\u2019s grandfathers tell.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Times then examined Biden\u2019s recent claim that he had been &#8220;raised in the Puerto Rican community at home,&#8221; which appears to be a downright fib. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Biden made not a single mention of Puerto Rico in either of his biographies,&#8221; the Times reported before getting into whataboutism.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Many presidents, of course, have stretched the truth \u2014 in ways big and small,&#8221; the Times article said, noting that Bill Clinton famously lied under oath and &#8220;[Ronald] Reagan exaggerated his own actions.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/democrats-grumble-biden-age-effectiveness-2024-presidential-election-looms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>DEMOCRATS GRUMBLE OPENLY ABOUT BIDEN&#8217;S AGE, EFFECTIVENESS AS 2024 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION LOOMS<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Times then took the Republicans-pounce approach by declaring, &#8220;Biden\u2019s critics have seized on his falsehoods to depict him as either a purposeful liar or a forgetful old man.&#8221; The piece revisited decades-old lies told by Biden, such as bogus claims he made during his first presidential run in 1987. The paper then pointed out claims he made in 2019 also turned out to be false.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Since becoming president earlier this year, he has continued to shave the truth,&#8221; the Times reported before publishing a laundry list of recent lies, exaggerations and falsehoods.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/3-ways-joe-biden-lost-credibility-voters-what-means-midterms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>3 WAYS JOE BIDEN LOST CREDIBILITY WITH VOTERS AND WHAT IT MEANS FOR THE MIDTERMS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many readers were less-than-pleased with the Times\u2019 article and accused the paper of downplaying Biden\u2019s lies. National Review senior writer Charles C.W. Cooke blasted the article in a short rebuttal piece.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Check out these euphemisms! \u2018Yarns that often unravel.\u2019 \u2018Unable to break himself of the habit of embellishing narratives to weave a political identity.\u2019 \u2018Folksiness can veer into folklore.\u2019 \u2018The factual edges shaved off,\u2019&#8221; Cooke wrote. &#8220;So: Lying, then? Notably, the\u00a0Times\u00a0does not shy away from using that word \u2014 accurately, of course \u2014 to describe Biden\u2019s predecessor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Others took to Twitter to criticize the Times:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><i>Fox News\u2019 David Rutz contributed to this report.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/foxnews.onelink.me\/xLDS?pid=AppArticleLink&amp;af_dp=foxnewsaf%3A%2F%2F&amp;af_web_dp=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fapps-products\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-meta\">\n<div class=\"author-bio\">\n<p><i>Brian Flood is a media reporter for Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent to\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"mailto:brian.flood@fox.com\" id=\"LPlnk367574\"><i>brian.flood@fox.com<\/i><\/a><i>\u00a0and on Twitter: @briansflood.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times was mocked Tuesday for a euphemism-stuffed report on President Biden\u2019s falsehoods, filled with such softened language as &#8220;embellished narratives, sometimes only loosely based on the facts,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1684047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1684047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1684047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1684047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1684047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}