Biden’s Moving War Story – Moving Toward Fiction
The Washington Post and other media outlets report that Presidential candidate Joe Biden tells a moving and gripping story about his efforts to pin a Silver Star on a U.S. Navy Captain that served in Afghanistan. The Navy Captain refused the medal in compelling, dramatic fashion.
The only problem is that the story does not appear to be true.
Joe Biden painted a vivid scene for the 400 people packed into a college meeting hall. A four-star general had asked the then-vice president to travel to Konar province in Afghanistan, a dangerous foray into “godforsaken country” to recognize the remarkable heroism of a Navy captain.
Some told him it was too risky, but Biden said he brushed off their concerns.
“We can lose a vice president,” he said. “We can’t lose many more of these kids. Not a joke.”
The Navy captain, Biden recalled Friday night, had rappelled down a 60-foot ravine under fire and retrieved the body of an American comrade, carrying him on his back. Now the general wanted Biden to pin a Silver Star on the American hero who, despite his bravery, felt like a failure.
“He said, ‘Sir, I don’t want the damn thing!’ ” Biden said, his jaw clenched and his voice rising to a shout. Do not pin it on me, Sir! Please, Sir. Do not do that! He died. He died!’ ”
BUT…
The Post found after conducting “interviews with more than a dozen U.S. troops, their commanders and Biden campaign officials, it appears as though the former vice president has jumbled elements of at least three actual events into one story of bravery, compassion and regret that never happened.”
Biden rejected the notion that the story was false.
Former Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday rebuffed a news report that he has recently misrepresented an anecdote on the campaign trail about giving awards for valor to members of the military, possibly conflating three separate real-life events.
Though Biden said he hadn’t seen the Washington Post article, he told a reporter for the The Post and Courier after a campaign event in South Carolina that he stood by his retellings of meeting with heroes of the Afghanistan war over the last decade.
Many believe that it doesn’t matter if it’s the truth or not… it plays.
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Should Joe Biden be Called Out for his Fake War Stories?
Category: "Teh Stoopid", Afghanistan, Politics
Gee whiz. Was he going to get that novel published any time soon?
“The Navy captain, Biden recalled Friday night, had rappelled down a 60-foot ravine….”
Hmmmm…. all the Navy captains I ever rain into were busy directing their commands, not out in the shoot-shoot-bang-bang recovering dead bodies.
Let’s make sure that Ol’ Joe gets the nod for the Democraps this time around. He’s either borderline senile or already there. He’ll make a great candy date.
So, someone proven to be a plagiarist decades ago – both in law school and as a candidate for President in 1988 – is also a liar.
What a surprise.
Precisely.
And what does that say about the turd who picked him to be his number two for eight years, hmm?
well we already know that mom jeans wearing, big eared socialist is a liar too.. and birds of a feather and all that…
he was assassination insurance
Does this lying POS actually believe the shit spewing from his cake hole?
I think he does. And that is frightening because he was only a heartbeat away from becoming President during the 0bama regime.
I gotta write this down; you can’t make this shit up in Hollywood….only in DC.
“Biden visited Konar province in 2008 as a U.S. senator, not as vice president. The service member who performed the celebrated rescue that Biden described was a 20-year-old Army specialist, not a much older Navy captain. And that soldier, Kyle J. White, never had a Silver Star, or any other medal, pinned on him by Biden. At a White House ceremony six years after Biden’s visit, White stood at attention as President Barack Obama placed a Medal of Honor, the nation’s highest award for valor, around his neck.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/as-he-campaigns-for-president-joe-biden-tells-a-moving-but-false-war-story/2019/08/29/b5159676-c9aa-11e9-a1fe-ca46e8d573c0_story.html?noredirect=on
Creepy Uncle Joe is a liar now just as he was a liar 54 years ago at Syracuse University’s law school. In a meeting on Dec. 1, 1965, “the law school faculty found that Biden had, ‘without quotation or citation,’ lifted five pages from a published law review article and used them in his 15-page paper for a legal-methods course.” (Washington Post article 9/18/1987)
Attributing senility to Creepy Uncle Joe mitigates his near lifelong record of dishonesty. He’s on the poster displaying a politician whose lips are moving and lies are emanating. As a Syracuse alumnus it disgusts me every time I see Uncle Joe portrayed in university marketing material.
Joe Biden has been lying for decades about his 1st wife’s death…
(Falsely) Blaming the truck driver.
Beyond low.
[Why Is Media Allowing Joe Biden to Lie About Drunk Driver Killing His First Wife?]
https://www.meetup.com/patrioticsingles/messages/42909122/
[Biden slanders a dead man, family grieves]
http://michellemalkin.com/2008/09/04/biden-slanders-a-dead-man-family-grieves/
Nothing is too low for a liberal.. (see also Teddy “red nose” Kennedy…
Thanks for posting the links. I had forgotten about this blatant slander by Sleepy Joe. He certainly didn’t have confusion or a misremembering on this unforgettable event. I like how he waited until after the truck driver died before he defamed him as a drunk driver. Obviously, as a supposed lawer, he remembered his torts class training that one can’t legally defame a dead man, as one’s reputation supposedly dies with him. Anyway, that is one legal theory; the other is that this civil wrong is personal in nature. Likely another is that the victim is no longer available to testify.
I heard rumor that Brian Williams has vouched for Biden. At least Biden didn’t have to dodge Sniper fire like Hillary said she had to do in Bosnia!
“Hold my beer,” said Biden…
Had a segment on this last night on ABC Broadcast. Was surprised the ABC would throw any rocks at creepy unka Joe. He must be finally falling out of favor for the media to be talking about his lies. Hell, he’s been doing it all of his life. Why should he be any different now?
Continue to gnaw away at one another demonrats. I gots plenty of snacky things.
Obviously the liberal media has decided to run against Biden, otherwise they would not cover this.
Oh, the power of setting the agenda and choosing what to talk about.
Col. Coffman is the highest ranking troop I know of to get a high award (DSC) in the current set of conflicts.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_H._Coffman_Jr.
But other than him the first clue that anyone should have had that Biden was making up his story on the go is that it involved an O-6 rappelling down a ravine. Most officers at that level are somewhere playing with the CPOF and directing troop movements from afar. Never mind that you don’t refuse to accept an award, though you might decline to wear one. Can’t see a senior officer making such a breach of etiquette. Of course, we here can see the bull manure, but many don’t have any real understanding about how these things work and Biden’s story sounds like how things happen in the movies, which is how far too many think things work in the real world.
You know Biden’s gaffes are getting to be too much if the Democrat’s own Pravda The Washington Post is writing unflattering stories about him.
Biden is working hard to get Trump re-elected in 2020.
WE should all encourage him to continue, dontcha think?
What can he hope to gain with such a tall tale? Why bother making up something so silly?? At least some of his other lies might lead to some personal gain. This kind of garbage?? Not so much.
There are appropriate labels for folks who lie even when it is easier to tell the truth.
for post truth libtards, it is great stuff…real red meat.
Like the lies Lenin and Stalin told the gormless faithful, everyone knew it was all BS, but they all also agreed to the story.
This is the true secret of effective propaganda. It is not about a kernel of truth told as a lie, it is about an outright lie inflated to outrageous proportions. In fact, the bigger the lie, the more effective it becomes. Once you get people to agree to accept what they know to be lies, you can tell any lie and they have to accept it or admit to being a minion at best.
Also, I worked with a guy who went to HS with Slow Joe….his description of Joe is of a party boy who had no problem with lying and cheating to get what he wanted.
He is not lying. He is old and in decline.
I am not saying he never lies. But Biden has been showing signs of cognitive decline throughout his campaign and this is another example.
Besides it is absolutely ridiculous that a Trump supporter would claim that it is liberals who are living in a post truth society.
I’ll agree with the first part. I think Joe just might have a belt slipping somewhere. I really don’t think he’s deliberately lying.
SFC D, consider the possibility that he’s deliberately lying, just like he’s always done, but can no longer remember why.
Heh…
OK, I did not think of that!
Gee you saying Biden “never lies” is apparently even a bridge too far for you. Would that be because he has an irrefutable record of bald face lies going back to his law school days in the 1960’s?
Thank you. He’s got a long, long history of lying. Which is why nobody is really surprised by it. Like Bill Clinton denying he knew what Epstein was up to. We know it’s bullshit, but we just accept it cause lying is what he do.
Of, for Pete’s sake!!
Taylor, if you weren’t so blind to the history of stupid things Joe Biden has said, over his lifetime in politics, you wouldn’t sound quite so dimwitted. He lies like a dead dog in the sun, has spent his entire adult life lying his ass off, and if you can’t figure out that this asinine story he spouted is another form of Stolen Valor, then you aren’t paying attention.
Please go crawl back into your corner and stop making yourself look ridiculous.
If by “decline” you mean “early dementia” or “early senility”, you could be correct. However, as others have observed by any common-sense standard this would be disqualifying for him to serve as POTUS.
Personally, I doubt that’s the case. His proven track record of lying and/or plagiarizing when it suits him to do so during the last 50+ years, coupled with his apparent lucidity, argues otherwise.
I personally think he’s simply not too bright and thinks he can get away with telling any good-sounding whopper he feels like telling. But I could be wrong.
“I personally think he’s simply not too bright and thinks he can get away with telling any good-sounding whopper he feels like telling“.. Winner, winner, chicken 🍗 dinner.
Agree. This is the guy who admitted after being first elected to the Senate that he’d be more than willing to prostitute himself, but they weren’t buying.
He’s just a bit dim. Always has been, always will be. People are just paying more attention now that he’s the front runner.
His gaffes, lies, and outright racism is really not new.
I was wondering when the self-fellatiating seagull would show up to tell us how wrong we are about “good old joe”… didn’t take long..
You know, those verbal self-gratification tomes from Poodle (AKA Commisar AKA Seagul AKA a number of other terms and post-ban handles) occasionally make me think of this very likely NSFW/around prudes, clergy, or children short video clip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XD1UPzL8X2c
Maybe I should start calling him ‘Roo instead of Poodle. (smile)
Some say Biden is merely a place holder for some
undetermined dark horse candidate.
I would say he is more of napkin holder.
confabulations secondary to sundowning..poor prognosis
Because many Democrats loath an “old white guy” running, Biden just needs to announce his intentions to switch genders or come out as pan sexual. The media will love him and plenty of democrats will wet their pants out of excitement. The nomination will then be a shoo-in.
” There I was”……..
Biden is definitely in cognitive decline.
He was already a weak candidate.
He has spent his political career being a useful fool for people with political agendas and special/corporate interests.
I suspect he hear several accounts of several different heroic actions during his time as Senator and VP and has them jumbled up in his head.
His strong early polling is primarily due to name recognition. Most people just are not paying much attention to who is running and what they stand for this early in the primaries.
So when someone calls asking their preference during a poll they simply pick the person they know something about.
He also has a terrible campaign strategy; “Not Trump”. Which was Hillary’s strategy as well. Dem corporate establishment essentially stands for nothing. So they have little to run on.
Biden wont won the nomination. Which is good, because, among the front runners, Biden is the one Trump would most easy defeat.
He is not going to get the nomination.
He’ll run as third-party candidate and take votes away from Bernie…
It’s going to be Warren and people will follow her around with headdresses and tom-toms for months. The memes will be glorious.
Maybe you should get yourself checked out for Cognitive decline, Commissar. I see a lot of similarities.
He has been “jumbling things up in his head” for decades. There was the time, for example, when he jumbled up the life story of Neil Kinnock and his own when he gave one of Kinnock’s speeches.
That would be during his aborted campaign for POTUS in 1987. That’s also when his earlier plagiarism in law school got widespread publicity.
Is Biden lying his ass off again, or is it just the senility talking? Either way, he’s unfit for office. He’s supposedly got the best poll numbers of any dem, but the party bosses clearly don’t want him. The schism should be fun to watch.
In other news, Ilhan the Infiltrator has been banging a married man behind her husband/brother’s back and funneling her campaign funds to his bank account and using taxpayer money to pay for frequent trysts and getaways with her white male (wasn’t she declaring white males to be a terrorist threat just recently? ) fuckbuddy. Ironic that she’s pro-sharia law, given that sharia law mandates that she be flogged and stoned to death for that shit.
The dems are really batting a thousand this week!
But…..but….but…….we have to tell the lie in order to advance the narrative and discussion!
Biden…callin’ em like he dreams em.
Biden, the stolen valor candidate… he’ll be getting an honor vest with MOH w/ silver oak leaf cluster next week.
I hear there’s a bike club in Elko, NV that can hook him up with a top-quality vest. Any flair or bling you want!
…I hate autofill…
And that navy captain? Captain Crunch. He also received a Purple Heart for taking a round in his crunchberries.
There is nothing worse than taking a round in your crunchberries. I had a trooper who took one in the crunchberries. I denied him a Purple Heart because one of our bunker guards was the one who shot him. Sneaking through the wire to visit the ladies of the night in the ville is not a combat op.