Commentary: The Serial Lying Emperor Has No Clothes
By Jim Thompson | 8:00 AM on December 05, 2022
“The Emperor has no clothes” is a parable. It isn’t just about believing that feckless behavior is brilliant; it’s about the ‘king” believing beyond reason that bad news is good news and when confronted with objective facts, still believes the contrary or, simply, makes stuff up to fit the moment.
I’m old enough to remember Biden running for president in 1988 and being laughed out of the campaign for being a serial liar. It was just that he made up his academic accomplishments, but he was stealing from about every source he could rip a page from or making things up out of whole cloth about. Joe Biden has always been a liar.
Even before 1988, Joe Biden was lying about Joe Biden. Long before Biden was VP and gaffing his way through eight years of irrelevance, or making another run for president in 2020, hiding in his basement, he was a serial liar.
Back to 1988. The future emperor was exposed as a liar, after claiming to have academic chops that he didn’t earn. He claimed to have been an honors student when, in fact, he was less than an average student hovering in the bottom third. He claimed scholarships he never earned, and athleticism he never had. Media bend over backwards to justify or massage his lies to make them less of a lie, but maybe an “embellishment.”
For instance, Biden claimed his grandfather was an “All-American” football star. The term had not even been invented when he played football, and, in fact, the term was “All America.” Newsweek’s “fact-check” to explain Biden’s lie is a “my dog ate Joe’s homework” type of excuse. He lied.
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