RSN: John Kiriakou | Biden Has No Idea What He Did Wrong

Take this wonderful Biden quote from The New York Times: “When I marched in the civil rights movement, I did not march with a 12-point program. I marched with tens of thousands of others to change attitudes. And we changed attitudes!” That’s great, except that Joe Biden never marched in the civil rights movement. Never. His aides, according to the Times, have “gently reminded him” that the story simply isn’t true. But he keeps telling it anyway.

This penchant for hyperbole and weakness for plagiarizing the work of others has caught up with Biden in the past. He had to drop out of the 1988 race for president after a Dukakis campaign staff member gave a Washington Post reporter a videotape showing UK Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock and Biden side-by-side. Kinnock said, “Why am I the first Kinnock in a thousand generations to be able to get to university?” Then referring to his ancestors, some of whom worked in the coal mines, he said, “Was it because all our predecessors were thick? Those people who could sing and play and recite and write poetry? Those people who could work eight hours underground and then come up and play football?”

Biden, in his own speech, said, “Why is it that Joe Biden is the first in his family ever to go to a university? Is it because I’m the first Biden in a thousand generations to get a college and graduate degree? That I was smarter than the rest? Those same people who read poetry and wrote poetry and taught me how to sing verse? Is it because they didn’t work hard? My ancestors, who worked in the coal mines of northeast Pennsylvania and would come up after 12 hours and play football for four hours?”

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