Weekly Opinion Editorial
LYING LIAR WHO LIED!
by Steve Fair
On Sunday, President Joe Biden issued an eleven-year
blanket pardon of his son Hunter. This came after he had repeatedly
promised he wouldn’t pardon him. Back in June, Hunter was convicted
of three felony counts related to the purchase of a revolver and lying on the
gun-purchase form. At that time of his conviction, the White House
issued a statement saying: President Joe Biden said he would accept the
outcome and “continue to respect the judicial process as Hunter considers an
appeal.” But Joe was apparently lying. Three observations:
First, Hunter’s pardon
is historic. The pardon covers an 11-year window that includes much
of the time President Biden was Vice President. During the
investigation into Hunter’s infamous laptop, Joe Biden was implicated in many
of the business dealings Hunter was engaged in with foreign
governments. Many believe President Biden is making sure the Trump
justice department can’t go after the he or Hunter after Trump takes office. Other presidents have pardoned family members,
but this one is a clear abuse of power.
Second, Joe Biden has
never been creditable. Lying and cheating are a longtime pattern of
behavior in Joe’s life. As a student in law school, he lifted five
pages from a law review journal and tried to pass them off as his own. In 1988,
he was running for president, but was forced to drop out of the Democrat
primary after it was disclosed, he had plagiarized a speech by a British
politico. During the 2020 campaign, statements and speeches were
often word for word from policy papers written by others, with no attributing
to the author.
Imitation is often said to be
the sincerest form of flattery, but what Biden does isn’t
imitation. He willfully steals the work of others and passes it off
as his own. Taking credit for someone else’s intellectual work shows a lack of
integrity and honesty.
Third, Biden lies with
impunity. Biden hasn’t faced punishment or any negative consequences from the
mainstream media for his double-dealing. They are willing
accomplices and collaborators in the effort to deceive America. They
aren’t alone. Democrat Party leaders echo/recapitulate Biden’s lies. When confronted with the truth,
both groups flip the script, play victim and attempt to make the public
question true reality. Lies like the economy is flourishing and the
border is secure didn’t fool the average citizen in
November. Democrats have a ‘creditability gap,’ (words and actions
don’t align) with voters.
Democrats have been
calling President Trump a liar since he appeared on the political
scene. According to the Washington Post, Trump made 30,573 false or
misleading claims during his first term- an average of 21 per
day. Some of what they called lies were mere mistakes in pronouncing
words. Ironically, the Post was not been as diligent in tracking
President Biden’s falsehoods the past four years.
In 2003, former U.S.
Senator Al Franken, (D-Minnesota), wrote a satirical book titled, Lies and the
Lying Liars Who Tell Them. In the book, Franken attacked
conservatives, implying Republicans spun reality and prevaricated the
truth. He attacked hyperbole, exaggeration, and sensationalism- characteristics that
always accompanies politics.
Both Parties engage in exaggeration. They often embellish the truth in an attempt to make something much bigger, better or worse than it actually is. They caricature issues and consequences of actions. But there is a fundamental difference between exaggeration and lying. What President Biden did when he promised to not pardon Hunter wasn’t hyperbole, exaggeration or sensationalism. It was a clear statement of anticipated action. But it turns out, it was a lie- a deliberate fabricated statement intended to deceive the American public. Biden’s legacy is he is a lying liar who lied.
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