by Mike Gonzalez
Framed on a wall in my office is a copy of my first opinion column, published by The Dallas Morning News on Oct. 11, 1987. Until then, I had been a wire-service reporter and editor in Washington, D.C., and, before that, a sports writer in Boston, but had never written opinion.
When given the chance by the Morning News, I jumped on a subject that had piqued my curiosity: A senator for Delaware running for president had brazenly stolen a speech by a Welsh Labour Party leader in the United Kingdom and, when caught, paid the price by humiliatingly dropping out of the 1988 presidential race.
The Welsh politician was Neil Kinnock, and 27-year-old me simply used the brouhaha over the purloined speech as an excuse to praise him for daring to tell Labourites that “socialism had become old hat,” as I put it. Democrats should be stealing that speech, I wrote.
The senator from Delaware was President Joe Biden. Over the past 37 years since my column was published, I have watched him lie and lie again, sometimes about small things, other times about larger ones, but always with impunity.
The media are just as much to blame for Biden’s habitual dishonesty because, instead of covering him, they’ve covered for him.
Even on those rare occasions when the legacy media have acknowledged that Biden is a fabulist, they have made excuses for him. The New York Times, for example, wrote protectively of him in 2022, saying that “President Biden has been unable to break himself of the habit of embellishing narratives to weave a political identity.”
It’s not that he’s lying, you see. Biden merely adorns reality.
Sometimes, Biden’s fabrications were just so oddball that they made you wonder if he was all there—even before he started showing signs of senility. An example of this is Biden’s insistence that his “Uncle Bosie” was eaten by cannibals in Papua New Guinea during World War II. The Defense Department was forced to put out a statement that Ambrose J. Finnegan was lost when his plane crashed in the Pacific Ocean.
Biden has also lied about graduating in the top half of his law school class, having his house “burn down with my wife in it,” growing up in the Puerto Rican community, and once being the driver of “an 18-wheeler,” to name only a handful of falsehoods that reveal a bizarre distance from reality.
He also habitually lies about former President Donald Trump leaving behind a 9% inflation rate. Inflation was 1.4% in January 2021.
Other times, however, Biden’s mendacity reveals a level of pathos that makes you want to look away. A case in point is when he told the mothers of the 13 troops killed in Afghanistan because of his ill-conceived pullout in 2021 that he could feel their pain because his son, Beau Biden, had also died in the war.
It was not the first time. Joe Biden has a history of saying that Beau Biden “lost his life in Iraq.” Beau Biden died tragically at the age of 46 in 2015 of cancer at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland.
“We lost our son as well and brought him home in a flag-draped coffin,” Cheryl Rex said the president told her. Rex later complained at a forum, “My heart started beating faster, and I started shaking, knowing that their son died from cancer, and they were able to be by his side.”
The context was Joe Biden’s stubborn insistence at the time that he was not culpable for the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal. He was callously using his family’s tragedy to buy sympathy. As The Wall Street Journal’s Bill McGurn put it, “Mr. Biden is not a gold star father and should stop playing one on TV.”
This long record of deceitfulness was on display in the president’s televised train wreck of a debate with Trump on June 27, when he again lied about many things, including not having any military deaths during his term in office.
To call Robin Ware/Robert L. Peters/JRB Ware/Pedo Peter/idiot Biden a mere liar insults other liars. He is the supreme liar. He even out-lies Hillary. Like the article says, he lies because he isn’t ever called on it. Even when it cost him his Presidential campaign, he keeps lying because the media doesn’t hold him accountable on a regular basis… and he certainly lies on a regular basis.
Project 2025 Group Is a Key Sponsor of the Republican National Convention –
Your project 2025 bullshit is tired and worn out. Get some new material.
Read it and see for yourself: Project 2025
I have read it. What about it do you object to? Or is it because it was based on Christian/Judeo values that Democrats have rejected?
greg is a communist
So?
Project 2025 is not a campaign issue
bidens cognitive decline is.
Robin Ware/Robert L. Peters/JRB Ware/Pedo Peter/idiot Biden’s incompetence, corruption and utter failure is the issue. That’s why morons like Greg want to talk about Project 2025, something that has NOTHING to do with anything.
Yes project 2025 will be fully rammed down your throat. Trump gets in becomes the dictator you think he is and we’re off to the races. It will project 2025 each and every day 24/7. He will outdo Biden’s record numbe of EO’s by a mile. The screaming by kook leftists will be epic. It will be glorious. Stock up on tin foil. You’re going to need a new hat.
The Heritage Foundation is a group. Project 2025 is a document. Project 2025 is not the Heritage Foundation. The Heritage Foundation is not Project 2025. Trump is not the Heritage Foundation. The Heritage Foundation is not Trump. Project 2025 is not Trump. Trump is not Project 2025.
You think that is clear enough? YOU concern should be on how you are going to drag that incompetent, lying, corrupt, treasonous pedophile rapist, Robin Ware/Robert L. Peters/JRB Ware/Pedo Peter/idiot Biden, across the finish line OR where you are going to dispose of the body. Nothing else.