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Biden's Finger Foods

Which is a more interesting story – my pilot uncle got shot down during World War II or my pilot uncle got shot down during World  War II and was subsequently eaten by cannibals?

As many people, sadly, have stories about relatives getting shot down during wartime, eaten by cannibals – by a wide margin – is the more interesting story.

In the past week, President Joe Biden told story number B not once, but twice while on the campaign trail. 

To be blunt, I’m surprised he didn’t move it from New Guinea to New Braunfels, Texas to better illustrate the point of the evil that lurks in red states.  It’s a lie anyway, so why not try to make it politically more relevant?

Everyone embellishes from time to time, with relatively mundane stories getting a little zestier with each re-telling. ‘ I saw Harrison Ford in a hotel hallway” can relatively innocently become “I had a drink with Harrison Ford at the hotel pool – such a nice, down to earth guy.”

But turning “I saw Harrison Ford in a hotel hallway” into “I saw Harrison Ford being killed and eaten by cabana boys at the hotel pool” is rather a stretch for most people – you pretty much have to prove that one.

For Joe Biden, though, the lies literally trip over themselves getting out of his mouth. 

Of course, it is possible that another Biden uncle was drunk during Thanksgiving years ago and pulled little Joey aside and said ‘I’ve got a secret for you…” and, after demanding he pull his finger, told him the story of his uncle being eaten by cannibals.  When you’re eight years old, that kind of information sticks.

But by the age of 81, one should have realized that was probably not exactly true.

That, however, is the single advantage of Biden’s growing dementia.  In the past he was known as a serial liar – he even got bounced from running for president once or twice for lying, plagiarizing, telling falsehoods, etc.  Now, though, he gets a pass because of his senility – who can tell if he’s lying with intent or mentally wandering off to grayer pastures?

It’s the reason he wasn’t charged with a crime by Robert Hur and it’s the reason people do not see him as terribly threatening despite the havoc he has wreaked.

He used to lie on purpose and that was bad.  Now he lies because he is so addled that he cannot tell if what he is saying is true or not and that is somehow better.

Speaking of lying, welcome to National Public Radio.

So one of NPR’s reporters writes a piece telling the world that NPR has an unwavering leftists bias.

That we all knew.

But then he was placed on suspension for speaking out of turn (technically because he didn’t get permission to publish something elsewhere – yeah, right) so Uri Berliner said to hell with it and quit.