{"id":2019239,"date":"2023-09-01T11:25:08","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T15:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wapo-scared-to-say-biden-is-lying-instead-claims-hes-retelling-stories-that-cant-be-verified\/"},"modified":"2023-09-01T11:28:09","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T15:28:09","slug":"wapo-scared-to-say-biden-is-lying-instead-claims-hes-retelling-stories-that-cant-be-verified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wapo-scared-to-say-biden-is-lying-instead-claims-hes-retelling-stories-that-cant-be-verified\/","title":{"rendered":"WaPo avoids calling out Biden&#8217;s lies, instead labels them unverifiable stories."},"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\">22<\/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%2Fwapo-scared-to-say-biden-is-lying-instead-claims-hes-retelling-stories-that-cant-be-verified%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=2019239&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--><h2>Ladies and gentlemen, \u2062we may have a new\u200b winner in \u200cthe sweepstakes \u200bfor the most \u200dcreative, verbally byzantine\u2063 way to say Joe Biden is lying without saying he\u2019s lying.<\/h2>\n<p>This, like \u200cRon\u2063 Burgundy, is kind of a big deal. In fact, nobody\u2019s really \u200cmanaged to best <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2010\/10\/the-salesman\/308226\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Atlantic\u2019s<\/a> Mark Bowden for 13 years; back in a 2010 profile\u200b of the then-vice president which pointed \u2064out the many, many lies of Joseph Robinette Biden, Bowden politely said he \u201chas the limber storyteller\u2019s tendency to stretch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Right. \u2062There isn\u2019t a yogi \u2062in India limber enough to make that metaphor work.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2023\/08\/31\/biden-loves-retell-certain-stories-some-arent-credible\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The \u2064Washington\u200b Post\u2019s<\/a> \u2063Glenn Kessler \u200cdoesn\u2019t quite have the skill of verbal blandishment that Mr. Bowden does, but the paper\u2019s chief \u201cfact-checker\u201d (imagine me on the \u2064other end of the screen putting the most emphatic air-quotes you\u2019ve ever seen around that compound word and you can get an\u200c idea \u200dof <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wapos-top-fact-checker-gets-fact-checked-third-time-week-think-tweet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">how ludicrous<\/a> I believe that\u2063 title to be) is fantastic, when a Democrat \u200cis involved, at \u201cchecking\u201d a fact and softening the language\u200b around it so that \u2014 even if it\u2019s a lie of \u200bBrobdingnagian proportions \u2014 it sounds like the\u2064 most\u2062 innocent of mistakes.<\/p>\n<p>So, dear\u200c reader, steel yourself for this \u2063Kessler \u201cfact-check\u201d headline\u2063 and try not to laugh: <strong>\u201cBiden loves to retell certain stories. \u200cSome aren\u2019t credible.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/biden-tells-lie-repeats-infamous-joey-baby-story-fact-checked-countless-outlets\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">You don\u2019t say<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This \u201cfact-check\u201d\u200b came after the president\u2064 finally visited the fire-devastated Hawaiian island of Maui, where, as Kessler noted, \u201cBiden recalled how lightning had once struck a pond outside\u2062 his home, \u2062sparking\u2063 a\u200b fire. \u2018To make a long story short, I almost lost my wife, my \u201967 Corvette and my cat,\u2019 he said, adding, \u2018all kidding \u200caside.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now, let\u2019s forget about the propriety of talking about maybe losing your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/biden-talks-lightning-strike-small-kitchen-fire-house-compares-maui-devastation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Corvette<\/a> \u2062 and \u2063your cat when, as of Wednesday, \u200d115 people\u200d were\u200d confirmed \u200bdead in\u2062 the Lahaina fires and an unknown number were still \u2063missing, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2023\/08\/30\/maui-wildfire-victims-search-nears-end\/70716295007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">USA Today<\/a>. Not only was it \u2064insensitive, it was also a lie.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cContemporary news reports on \u200dthe house \u200dfire do\u2062 not \u200cmatch his telling of it, \u200dfanning criticism that he had lied to a vulnerable audience,\u201d Kessler\u2064 wrote.<\/p>\n<p>As Kessler went on to note, Biden tends to try and tell stories that too-neatly connect with\u200b certain audiences.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSometimes the stories turn out to \u2063be largely true, such as the one about a confrontation as\u200c a 19-year-old lifeguard\u200d with a\u200b gang leader\u200c named Corn Pop. But others fall short,\u201d Kessler wrote. \u201cAs president, Biden has continued a tradition\u2062 of <strong>embellishing his personal \u200dtales in ways that cannot be \u2062verified or are directly refuted by\u2063 contemporary accounts<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That emphasis is mine. That\u2019s the new winner. Move over, \u00a0\u201climber storyteller\u2019s tendency to stretch.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/twitter-forced-pull-history-book-joe-biden-lies-american-people\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Biden<\/a> likes \u201cembellishing his personal\u200b tales\u200b in ways that cannot be verified or are directly refuted by contemporary accounts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Which is also called, in less verbose, deliberately tortuous terms, <em>lying<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter was not impressed with this linguistic prestidigitation on Kessler\u2019s part:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"qme\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dNmYVGxiLS\">pic.twitter.com\/dNmYVGxiLS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Right To Bear\u2063 Memes \u200d(@grandoldmemes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/grandoldmemes\/status\/1697269284928369093?\">August 31, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">They\u200c never, ever, use their favorite word: \u201clies\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The \u200dFall Of Rome (@LaCadutaDiRoma) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LaCadutaDiRoma\/status\/1697305675854950782?\">August 31, \u200d2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">So hard-hitting! Way to go after\u200b a pathological liar who is somehow the President\u200d of the \u200cUnited States!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kyle Becker \u2063(@kylenabecker) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kylenabecker\/status\/1697272141064863888?\">August 31, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Biden \u2062doesn\u2019t\u2064 \u201clie,\u201d according to fact checkers.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2064 tells stories that cannot\u2064 be verified or\u200b are not\u200d plausible.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OFbMTwl75D\">https:\/\/t.co\/OFbMTwl75D<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2063 Cernovich (@Cernovich) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Cernovich\/status\/1697305492727673024?\">August 31, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Kessler\u2019s article, to be fair, does go on to\u2063 document\u2063 plenty of the lies \u2014 albeit without ever using the \u200cword \u201clie,\u201d \u201clies\u201d or \u201clying.\u201d (The only time it was used in the\u2062 article, \u200din fact, was that part about \u201cfanning criticism \u2064that he had lied to a vulnerable audience.\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>So \u2063there was the tale about the fire at \u2063his house. \u2062Lie: Virtually every\u200b contemporary source \u2063indicates it was\u2062 a minor fire\u2063 that Biden\u200c has constantly exaggerated\u200d about.<\/p>\n<p>There was the tale about the Amtrak conductor named Angelo Negri who told Biden he had\u200b traveled more on trains than he had on Air Force Two as \u2063vice president. Lie: While Kessler called it \u200b\u201cheartwarming but implausible,\u201d\u200c it\u2019s so implausible that it \u2062beggars belief, since Negri retired from Amtrak in 1993\u200b and\u200d had passed away by the time the story allegedly took place.<\/p>\n<p>Then there was the\u200d story about seeing two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-biden-is-our-greatest-fabulist\/\" title=\"Joe Biden Is Our Greatest Fabulist\">gay men kissing<\/a> in downtown\u2064 Wilmington, Delaware in the 1960s and his father telling him,\u2064 \u201cJoey, it\u2019s simple.\u2062 They love each other.\u201d Lie: Not only would this be \u2062highly unlikely \u2063to have happened in \u201cthe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wapo-scared-to-say-biden-is-lying-instead-claims-hes-retelling-stories-that-cant-be-verified\/\" title=\"WaPo avoids calling out Biden's lies, instead labels them unverifiable stories.\">strait-laced business community<\/a> in downtown Wilmington,\u201d \u200cKessler notes that \u201cBiden\u2019s story has evolved over time.\u201d Which is to say it\u2019s been a different lie each time, but still almost certainly a \u200clie.<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s arrest in apartheid South Africa? Lie. His involvement in \u2063the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-erects-emmett-till-and-mamie-till-mobley-national-monument\/\" title=\"Biden establishes Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument.\">civil rights\u2064 movement<\/a>? Lie. Tales about his relatives\u2019 heroism \u2063in the war? Lies.<\/p>\n<p>And these\u200c are the lies Kessler mentions. He\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/biden-compulsive-liar-fits-definition-keeps-telling-fake-stories\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">omitting \u2063the ones<\/a> about Joe being a truck driver, \u200cabout a comment in Idaho about\u200b receiving his \u201cfirst job\u200c offer\u201d from \u2062local lumber company Boise \u200cCascade,\u200c about \u2063his academic record, about being \u201craised in \u2063the black church\u201d \u2014 you know, those\u200c sorts of things.<\/p>\n<p>Also curiously\u2063 unmentioned: something we \u200dnow know is almost certainly a lie, Joe\u2019s claim he \u200dnever talked to his son Hunter about his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-secret-service-intervened-in-hunter-biden-gun-incident-lied-on-background-check-form-report-says\/\" title=\"BREAKING: Secret Service Intervened In Hunter Biden Gun Incident; Lied On Background Check Form, Report Says\">overseas business dealings<\/a>. Not only do we know he talked about them with\u200b Hunter, according to testimony from Hunter\u2019s former business partner,\u2063 Devon Archer, he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/devon-archer-bombshell-hunter-biden-called-dc-get-ukrainian-prosecutor-investigating-burisma-fired\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">talked <em>with<\/em> \u200c the overseas business connections<\/a> on roughly\u200c two dozen <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/07\/23\/hunter-biden-put-then-vp-dad-joe-on-the-phone-with-business-associates-at-least-2-dozen-times-ex-partner-devon-archer-to-testify\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">phone calls<\/a> Archer was present for.<\/p>\n<p>But that\u2019s Joe\u200d for you \u2014 \u201cembellishing\u200c his personal tales in ways that cannot \u200dbe verified or are directly refuted by contemporary accounts.\u201d Or, in non-Kesslerian terminology, lying.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wapo-scared-say-biden-lying-instead-claims-retelling-stories-cant-verified\/\">WaPo Scared to Say Biden Is Lying &#8211; Instead\u2064 Claims He&#8217;s Retelling Stories That\u200b Can&#8217;t Be Verified<\/a> appeared \u200cfirst on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ladies and gentlemen, a potential victor emerges in the contest for the most inventive, linguistically intricate method of implying Joe Biden&#8217;s dishonesty without explicitly stating it. This achievement, akin to Ron Burgundy&#8217;s significance, is noteworthy. Remarkably, The Atlantic&#8217;s Mark Bowden has held this title unchallenged for 13 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":2019241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2019239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019239","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\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2019239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2019241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2019239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2019239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2019239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}