Good for him. What did he do that Joe Biden hasn’t done? Biden’s lies are SOOOO ubiquitous that telling which is a lie and which is not would baffle an IBM computer.
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graduated top of my class, wrong, bottom of your glass
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saved my wife from fire that burned down the house, wrong, small kitchen fire, no damage,
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drove an 18-wheeler, sorry Joe, wrong again
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was hired to be a lumber jack, no record of that
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visited Tree of Life Synagogue – Rabbi, “never been there”
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“my son did nothing wrong” – yeah, according to you
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OPINION George Santos takes the cake, but why does Joe Biden get a pass for his lies?
December 29, 2022 5:25pm
Why do they do it? Who needs to lie like this? I am thinking, of course, of Representative elect George Santos. But also of the whole lot of them. Of politicians as a species. Why do they feel the need to make stuff up?
It must be admitted that Santos is emerging as the undisputed top of his class of fibsters.
To date he claims to have attended a prestigious Bronx prep school which has no record of him ever being there. He claims to have graduated from Baruch College, despite never having enrolled there. He claims to have worked for Citigroup and Goldman Sachs but never did. When confronted with the fact that he´d never worked for either company he blamed a “poor choice of words.”
I can see the point. I often claim to have worked for the Dalai Lama, UN Secretary General and the Pope as their joint global emissary to solve all world conflicts. Whenever anyone points out that I haven’t left my apartment much lately I too just blame a “poor choice of words.”
Still, it is the sheer weirdness of Santos’ claims which keep striking me. It’s not just career embellishments — it is lies about pretty major things. For instance, so far the Republican has claimed that he is both Jewish and Catholic. When confronted by The New York Post about this he replied “I never claimed to be Jewish. I am Catholic. Because I learned my maternal family had a Jewish background I said I was Jew-ish.” It turns out that his family are from Brazil.
Then yesterday we learned that as recently as last year he was claiming that his mother died as a result of 9/11. Then he said she died of cancer in 2016.
What is it with this guy? Why does he feel the need to any of this? Does he think that people vote out of pity? Or because of which school or college someone went to? And what the hell does he think of New Yorkers if he thinks we deeply want representatives who worked for Goldman Sachs?
Of course he´s not the only one who does this. Our very own President is a master of the career-embellishing lie.
President Biden has been caught in a few lies of his own since taking office. Andrew Harnik/AP
But with Joe Biden there is at least method to the madness. For instance when Biden has claimed in the past to have graduated at the top of his class in the toppiest class that ever was he is hoping that the public will just be wowed by his brilliance. “Top of the class? Well gee — there’s a guy I can get behind to run this country” says no one. In a way it is understandable. Joe Biden clearly has some kind of intellectual inferiority complex and it bursts out of him occasionally.
Way back in 1987 Biden could be found on the campaign trail claiming that he had attended law school on a full academic scholarship, been the outstanding student in the political science department and graduated with not one, not two, but three undergraduate degrees from Delaware. Turned out he’d been at the bottom of the class and scraped a single degree. Back then it was thought that Biden’s lies about his own career would destroy his future political prospects. So much for that