Mendacious? In the grip of dementia? Or both? My latest in FrontPage:
Old Joe Biden is a serial liar as well as an elderly man in the grip of dementia, and it was initially hard to tell which one was kicking in on Thursday when he claimed that he served as Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir’s liaison to Egypt during the Six-Day War in 1967. Golda Meir wasn’t prime minister of Israel during the Six-Day War, and Biden was an unknown law student at the time, but Biden did meet with her in 1973, so maybe he was just mixing up the two. Apparently this is a case of both Biden lying yet again about his life experiences and also forgetting where he was and when.
“I was saying to a couple younger members of my staff before I came over,” Old Joe began, “about the many times I’ve been to Israel. And I said – and then all of a sudden I realized, ‘God, you’re gettin’ old, Biden – I have known every prime minister well since Golda Meir, including Golda Meir. And during the Six-Day War, I had an opportunity to, uh — she invited me to come over because I was going to be the liaison between she and the Egyptians about the Suez, and so on and so forth.”
Biden is an accomplished panderer; he said this at White House Hanukkah menorah lighting celebration, apparently to show the crowd how pro-Israel he is, despite his administration’s consistently anti-Israel stance. But there is no way it could be true: Biden was 25 in 1967, and was attending Syracuse University College of Law, from which he graduated 76th in a class of 85 in 1968. By 1967, when he supposedly talking to the Egyptian government on behalf of Golda Meir, he had already embarked upon his career of lying. A Syracuse College of Law faculty report on December 1, 1965 stated that Biden “used five pages from a published law review article without quotation or attribution,” and recommended that he fail a legal methods course because of his plagiarism.
Biden’s defense of his actions was predictably sleazy. He wrote to the law school faculty asking that he not be expelled, claiming: “My intent was not to deceive anyone. For if it were, I would not have been so blatant.” He added: “If I had intended to cheat, would I have been so stupid?” Well, why not, Joe?
Biden even served up an early form of his “my word as a Biden” routine: “I value my word above all else. This is a fact which is known to all those who are or have been acquainted with my character.” Yes, he really wrote that. He even had the audacity to claim that as a law student who had already obtained an undergraduate degree, he “had misunderstood the rules of citation and footnoting.”
And now Joe would have us believe that Golda Meir surveyed the wide world and fastened upon one dishonest, plagiarist law student to serve as her mouthpiece in high-level negotiations with a hostile government during wartime. To be sure, Joe did meet with Meir in 1973, when he was just beginning his lengthy career of corruption and deception in the U.S. Senate. He had just come from Egypt, although whether he was actually serving as Meir’s official liaison is unclear. A classified Israeli memo about their meeting shows that he was practically as anti-Israel then as he is now, warning Meir against “creeping annexation” of territories it captured during the Six-Day War and demanding that Israel make concessions to the hostile powers surrounding it. According to Israeli columnist Nadav Eyal, Biden was “full of respect to the PM yet his ‘enthusiasm as he spoke’ signaled his lack of experience in the diplomatic field.” Sounds as if Old Joe hasn’t changed all that much.
It’s bad enough that the president of the United States is a frequent, habitual liar with a record of dishonesty that extends back 56 years. It’s even worse that the sycophantic media doesn’t take any notice of his lies, and continues to do all it can to prop up his disastrous administration and make it appear as if it isn’t the dumpster fire that everyone can see that it is. The corruption of the American body politic is coming from the top; an unprincipled old ward-heeler and political hack such as Biden should never have gotten anywhere near the White House. The fact that his arrival there was greeted with hosannahs and sighs of relief by the international political and media elites bespeaks an even wider corruption. And be prepared: Biden isn’t even close to being through lying.
Buraq says
Joe Brandon’s Pinocchio propensities show he would make a good ‘taqiyya’ artiste! A perfect match for the only ‘religion’ in the world that encourages lying. Clown!
roberta says
I can only imagine the books that Biden’s staff will write after this scam comes to a predictable bad end.
The lies, stupidity, and incompetence they are witnessing daily will fill chapter after chapter.
Don McKellar says
I would greatly enjoy a fictional biography of Joe Biden, compiled directly from all his lies over the decades. Presented completely straight, with very realistic doctored photos, all of it footnoted to when he said what. That would be a terrific book. And imagine if somebody could get him to sign a copy.
We’d see Corn Pop, “roaches” on young Biden’s lap, him driving a big rig, the Nelson Mandela episode, this story, shopping in a non-existent WalMart that’s “right down the street” from his house, on and on — a huge list even more ridiculous could be compiled. Absurdity upon absurdity. It could be amazing.
gravenimage says
Don, that’s hilarious! I’d buy that book for the entertainment value alone. 🙂
notnolib says
Make that two!
gary fouse says
I can envision it all now. 1976: Golda Meir pacing her office over the Suez Canal. Suddenly she turns to an aide and says, “There’s a young law student at Syracuse University named Joe Biden. Get him over here.” Sounds like a Hollywood B movie script.
gravenimage says
Biden Lies Again, Claims He Was Golda Meir’s Liaison During the Six-Day War
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Good grief–this is not the sort of thing one could innocently misremember (unless Biden’s mental decline is steeper than we thought). Nor is this even a matter of exaggeration (as if, say, he was part of a delagation but not leading it, or some such). Instead, this is made up out of whole cloth. Hard to imagine Biden doesn’t know this–and if he *doesn’t* that is terrifying.
This was before my time (well, I was around, but was a child at the time). But if I recall correctly, it was Lucius Battle, the U.S ambassador to Egypt, who helped broker negotiations between Israel and Egypt.
GreekEmpress says
Cognitive decline, imho.
I’m not a doctor, but——wow.
cornelius says
Joe Biden deserves all the contempt in the world for his policies and corruption, but I think it’s pretty obvious he confused the Six-day war in ’67 with the Yom Kippur War in ’73. Golda Meir wasn’t even PM in ’67.
Biden does indeed have a history of lying (and plagiarism), but this mix-up is more likely a manifestation of creeping senility than it is mendacity.
gravenimage says
Cornelius, Biden was not a liason for Israel in 1973, either.
Apparently in that meeting in 1973 with Golda Meir Biden suggested that Israel cede territory to Egypt and other surrounding Islamic enemies. Terrible advice, that Israel wisely did not take.
More here on the specifics:
https://thedispatch.com/p/was-joe-biden-a-liasion-between-israel
And Cornelius, so good to see you posting again. Hope you are well.
tim gallagher says
They mentioned this latest, weird, off the planet, fantasy land stuff from Biden a few days ago on the “Outsiders” show on Sky News here in Australia. It is so bizarre to watch a person in the position of President of the USA come out with the truly weird things Biden comes out with. It has to be dementia. Apparently, he has a history of telling ridiculous tall stories, which makes me wonder how such a fantasist could keep climbing the greasy pole and end up in the position of President. I have also seen that weird speech where he was going on with very strange nonsense about the hairs on his legs or some such thing and also I saw him sniffing some girl’s hair which was also “off”. It is certainly strange, and troubling, to see such a man in the exalted position he is pretending to fill as President, while his handlers give him directions. Biden often seems to be living on some other planet.
Infidel says
Not a big lie, given that this is the man who once claimed to have walked from Soweto – a black suburb of Johannesburg at the time – to Robben Island, off Cape Town, where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned. Except that those 2 places were a bit short of a 1000 miles apart, so that would have been some walk ?
gravenimage says
I’d missed that one, Infidel–but it would be hard to keep up with all of this ludicrous bs from Biden.
Here’s this absurd story:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/02/25/bidens-ridiculous-claim-he-was-arrested-trying-see-mandela/
abu taleb says
I think Biden did not lie intentionally, he was just being senile. Must be some short circuit in his brain cells.
The only question I have is how come the Americans become so stupid so they pick Biden and Harris as their leaders and prefer socialism together with becoming woke retards without any moral compass
James Lincoln says
abu taleb,
In reality, the election was rigged on a massive scale (both organic as well as cyber fraud) – and the fraudulent results did not reflect the wishes of the average American.
Walter Sieruk says
Joe Biden lies so much that if Biden would tell someone that “It’s raining outside, that person would be wise to look out of the window before believing lying old Joe.
overman says
Yeah, and he probably wiped mohammed’s ass too.
What a complete ‘bullshi**er.