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jimnyc
09-01-2019, 12:31 PM
I had flashbacks of intense stupidity overdose when I read the title. The lobotomized rat is in headlines, or so I thought! :laugh:

But seriously, lying is a problem to the left any other time. Well, it is a problem with everyone all the time. Scratch those - lying is a problem to everyone all of the time, except for when it's a lefty. Hell, we see that played out for many many years just here and more years when extended to my 'ol place.

And then we now learn from this article, that it's not that you lie, it's HOW you tell your lie. :rolleyes:

And finally, we also learn that Biden, and the rest of the lefties are a lot like the rat we all know.

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Truth Matters? ABC Panel Defends Joe Biden Telling False War Story

Apparently, the truth and the accuracy of details meant little to the so-called “powerhouse roundtable” on ABC’s This Week. During the latter half of the Sunday show, the panel defended former Vice President Joe Biden after The Washington Post exposed that a war story Biden had been telling for years was actually a tall tale.

But it wasn’t entirely false. As The Post explained and ABC rationalized on Thursday, Biden created the story by conflating several real events into a, sort of, Frankenstein’s monster designed to tug on the heartstrings of listeners. According to The Post, “Biden got the time period, the location, the heroic act, the type of medal, the military branch and the rank of the recipient wrong, as well as his own role in the ceremony.”

But the facts be damned on ABC News.

First up was ABC political director Rick Klein, who said the story “shows the best of Joe Biden and the worst of Joe Biden. It's him connecting and telling a really compelling story. It’s also him sanding away the edges and conflating things and maybe confusing details.”

Fill-in host and chief global affairs correspondent Martha Raddatz was concerned President Trump could use the false story “against Joe Biden in a credible way”. Klein, making the argument from the perspective of Biden and his supporters, suggested Biden’s lies had a better cause behind them:


I think from Biden's perspective though, and Biden supporters, they could say: “Look, when the Vice President does it, it is to make a point in a more artful way perhaps and to connect with people in a genuine way. When Donald Trump does it's often to demean and belittle.”

Both Raddatz and NPR correspondent Asma Khalid argued that the news story about Biden’s lies wasn’t “resonating” with voters. Khalid talked about how Biden’s supporters were simply brushing off the incident:


I don't think it resonated at all. And I should preface this by saying I was out with Joe Biden at a Joe Biden evens, so it’s a slice of the electorate. But I specifically wanted to hear from people about this and time after time I was told, you know, “well, I put my foot in my mouth, we all put our foot in the mouth.” There’s a sense that these qualities are almost endearing to voters. There’s a sense that they find him more believable because he makes missteps every so often.

Washington Post national correspondent Mary Jordan was flippant about her own paper’s reporting on Biden’s latest gaffe. She suggested the voters she was talking too were telling her: “Come on, let's focus on the big stuff, it's the economy and the character of the leader and the character of the country that we want going forward”.

“And that's what they're saying. It's big time. It's big stuff that we care about. It’s not about the stories,” she concluded.

As Klein’s argument showed, it’s a double standard with it came to Democratic candidates and President Trump. If it was Trump telling Biden’s tale, then the media would be running story after story about him intentionally “gaslighting” America. Perhaps that’s why the news story wasn’t “resonating”.

Rest - https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2019/09/01/truth-matters-abc-panel-defends-joe-biden-telling-false-war

Gunny
09-01-2019, 08:20 PM
And the 3 viewers oc ABC News have spoken. :rolleyes:

hjmick
09-01-2019, 09:12 PM
Whew! For a second there I thought that bitch Truthmatters was back...

Gunny
09-01-2019, 09:16 PM
Whew! For a second there I thought that bitch Truthmatters was back...No kiddin' :laugh:

That is one whack job I'll never miss.

High_Plains_Drifter
09-01-2019, 10:07 PM
Whew! For a second there I thought that bitch Truthmatters was back...
Was thinking the SAME THING..... http://www.sherv.net/cm/emo/laughing/laughing-hard-smiley-emoticon.gif (http://www.sherv.net/)