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Veteran Atlantic writer Mark Bowden may have summed up Joe Biden’s tenuous relationship with the truth best in a 2010 piece where he described the then-vice president as having “the limber storyteller’s tendency to stretch.”
“Though hardly a hanging offense — who among us hasn’t burnished a tale now and then? — it’s a dangerous tendency on the national political stage,” Bowden wrote, noting that, among other things, “Biden has in the past exaggerated his scholastic résumé.”
The stretchiness of the limber storytelling that Bowden was referring to here was Biden’s frequent tendency to make himself look like an overachiever when he was, in fact, anything but.
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Last autumn, for instance, he told a town hall in South Carolina that he “got started out” at Delaware State University. He actually attended the University of Delaware.
This wasn’t just a slip of the tongue, however, and it’s problematic for a reason other than Biden’s faltering memory: Delaware State is a historically black university.
And it’s not just that he mixed up the names, either. He was very specific about the fact that the school he went to was historically black:
“Though hardly a hanging offense — who among us hasn’t burnished a tale now and then? — it’s a dangerous tendency on the national political stage,” Bowden wrote, noting that, among other things, “Biden has in the past exaggerated his scholastic résumé.”
The stretchiness of the limber storytelling that Bowden was referring to here was Biden’s frequent tendency to make himself look like an overachiever when he was, in fact, anything but.
RETRACTED: Biden Humiliated: Says He Got Started at Black University, But University Says He Never Attended
The Western Journal has retracted this article.
www.westernjournal.com
BJ's Pull Quotes
Last autumn, for instance, he told a town hall in South Carolina that he “got started out” at Delaware State University. He actually attended the University of Delaware.
This wasn’t just a slip of the tongue, however, and it’s problematic for a reason other than Biden’s faltering memory: Delaware State is a historically black university.
And it’s not just that he mixed up the names, either. He was very specific about the fact that the school he went to was historically black:
