Joe Biden has a long record of lying and lifting pieces from other people’s speeches. Last night he dusted off something he’d lied about lifted previously.
At the CNN “Town Hall”/slobberfest Biden again plagiarized a speech from British Labour leader Neil Kinnock. Kinnock gave a speech in early 1987 to a Welsh Labour organization, in it he said the following:
Why am I the first Kinnock in a thousand generations to be able to get to university? [Pointing to his wife in the audience] Why is Glenys the first woman in her family in a thousand generations to be able to get to university? Was it because all our predecessors were thick?
Compare that to what Joe said just months later:
I started thinking as I was coming over here, why is it that Joe Biden is the first in his family ever to go to a university? [Pointing to his wife Jill sitting in the audience] Why is it that my wife who is sitting out there in the audience is the first in her family to ever go to college? Is it because our fathers and mothers were not bright? Is it because I’m the first Biden in a thousand generations to get a college and a graduate degree that I was smarter than the rest?
It gets worse than mere plagiarism. Joe was not in fact the first in his family to attend university. Joe admitted as much a couple of weeks afterwards when pressed on the issue.
Last night, Biden resurrected those claims.
I have to wonder given his clear decline, if we can expect some of the other lies or plagiarized speeches he’s used in the past to make an appearance.
Mollie Hemingway over at the Federalist details some of the previous examples of lying and plagiarism from Joe.
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:
BIDEN: I think I probably have a much higher IQ than you do, I suspect. I went to law school on a full academic scholarship, the only one in my — in my class to have a full academic scholarship. In the first year in law school I decided didn’t want to be in law school and ended up in the bottom two-thirds of my class, and then decided I wanted to stay, went back to law school, and in fact ended up in the top half of my class. I won the international moot-court competition. I was the outstanding student in the political science department at the end of my year. I graduated with three degrees from undergraduate school and 165 credits — I only needed 123 credits. And I’d be delighted to sit down and compare my IQ to yours if you’d like Frank.
It turned out that Biden did not receive a full academic scholarship, but a half scholarship based on financial need. He did not end up in the top half of his class, but near the very bottom. There is no record of him winning the moot court competition. He did not receive the outstanding student award at the University of Delaware. And he graduated with only one degree.
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So much for no malarkey.
What’s worse, the MSM has its collective head so far up, well, you know where I’m going, that they can’t or won’t call him on it. I mean, Joe has an excuse, he’s slowly losing touch with reality, and he has trouble separating what’s real and what’s fantasy.