Not as much ignorant of Biden's history, but more like liars.
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Joe Biden Resurrects False College Claim That Helped Ruin His 1988 Presidential Run
Joe Biden is not the first person in his family to have gone to college. But he has a lengthy history of claiming otherwise, no matter how much the lie gets him in trouble.
Even after having famously admitted exactly 33 years ago to the day that he had family who had gone to college before him, Biden once again made the false claim at a CNN Town Hall on Thursday night.
Biden enthusiast Charlotte Alter, a national correspondent at Time magazine, tweeted out his line, apparently unaware of its role in Biden’s 1987 presidential campaign collapse:
Back in 1987, The New York Times published Biden’s quote admitting that was not true:
Among others, his great-grandfather attended college at a time in which fewer than 2 percent of college-aged men and women in the United States did so. Now it’s around 60 percent.
Anniversary Of Kinnock Plagiarism Scandal
Biden’s first failed run for the presidency was ended by his dishonesty over his academic record and his plagiarism, including the biography and speeches of British Labor politician Neil Kinnock.
On a campaign stop in New Hampshire in 1987, a voter asked Biden where he attended law school and where he placed in his class.
Biden lashed out at the man angrily, making a series of claims that were not true:
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Media Ignorance of Biden History
The media praised Biden’s line about college, apparently unaware of its history. It was such big news at the time that even Johnny Carson mocked Biden for it. Politico’s Tim Alberta said it might be the “single-most effective line” deployed against Trump since his political career began.
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https://thefederalist.com/2020/09/18...sidential-run/