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Biden's career long Pinocchio Syndrome

Posted: 20 Oct 2020 03:59 PM PDT
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By William Haupt III | The Center Square

Former Vice President Joe Biden gives a tribute during memorial service at
North Phoenix Baptist Church for Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., on Thursday,
Aug. 30, 2018, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) “The lip of truth shall
last forever; but a lying tongue shall last only for a moment.” – Proverbs
12:19 Pinocchio is a character in the 1883 children's book “The Adventures
of Pinocchio” by Italian author Carlo Collodi. Pinocchio is an animated
puppet, who happens to be a habitual liar. His nose grows longer with each
lie he tells. Throughout the story, this boy’s nose grows longer every time
he tells a tale. He is such a naughty boy, his nose grows so long he can’t
get it through the door to his room. Carlo Collodi was a Florentine
political activist. Critics conclude he did not create the habitual lying
Pinocchio to entertain children. His objective was to illustrate what
happens if they fail to learn the facts. People will be gullible and
believe every lie others tell them. And then they repeat those lies as
truths to other people. Since they never learned the truth, nobody ever
believes a thing they say. Pinocchio is an icon for parents and teachers to
impress the importance of truth. Political scientists claim despots like
Adolph Hitler and Vladimir Lenin had what they call the “Pinocchio
Syndrome”; the ability to twist and turn lies to deceive the most gullible
of the masses. They lie so much so often people believe their lies are
truths. “In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” –
George Orwell Psychiatrists define the Pinocchio Syndrome as the mental
disorder of being a “pathological liar.” They concede those who have this
pathology are characterized by the inevitable compulsion to lie and they
lie so much so often, they eventually believe these lies themselves. “Too
many people are concerned about being factually correct instead of being
morally right.” – Alexandria Ocasio Cortez During elections, fact checking
is a full-time job. There is a fine line that separates fact from fiction.
This is a nightmare for “real journalists.” There is also a finer line
between exaggerating facts and inventing them. Until a decade ago, a few
truth reporters fact-checked campaigns. But that ended with Obama, Clinton
and Biden. They can say anything they wish and the media reports it as
fact. The left and the press have ripped Trump daily for his enthusiastic
outbursts about his economic success, employment numbers, tax cuts, China
trade deals, his border and foreign policies, etc. While Trump exaggerates
and embellishes his success, he is not lying. He is “boasting” because the
media won’t report them. “I can’t do a thing right in the lamestream
media.” – Donald Trump If it had not been for COVID-19, Trump would have
this election already won. But instead of working with Trump, the media and
the left exploited it to discredit him and the GOP, and to embellish the
checkered past of Joe Biden as the hero who will rescue America from the
evils of Donald Trump! Since the left is making the 2020 campaign a
referendum on Trump’s character, Biden’s history of lying and deceit is
fair game. Biden revealed his dishonesty out of the gate: “There’s a $2
trillion tax cut last year. Did you feel it? Did you get anything from it?
Of course not! It went right to the rich.” The Washington Post’s fact
checker bestowed Biden with four “Pinocchios” after his first campaign
speech. Another reporter said, “Biden has been inflicted with the Pinocchio
Syndrome since birth.” Joe Biden’s lying or creating fables has been a
major liability during his political career. Yet Biden has escaped the
public execution that the media inflicts on the right if they tell even a
half truth. As much as Biden loves to make up stories and embellish the
truth, he shot himself in both feet when he wrote his autobiography. Unlike
his past speeches and media interviews, Biden’s aides did not allow him to
lie about his past since publishers fact check everything in an
autobiography. And recently, fact checkers have been using his book to
piece together the real past of Joe Biden. Biden claims an extensive resume
as a civil rights activist and spent his youth working with other
activists. But his book reveals that is a lie. “During the 1960s, I was
concerned about civil rights, I was not an activist. I worked at a black
swimming pool in Wilmington, Delaware. I was involved in what they were
thinking, but I was not out marching. I was not in Selma. I was not
anywhere else. I was a suburbanite kid who got a dose of exposure to what
was happening to black Americans.” Preparing for the election, Biden has
doubled down on his past falsehoods. At a recent event, Biden claimed, “The
moment the Iraq War started I was against it!” He added, “I was always
labeled one of the most liberal members of Congress.” He also told the
crowd, "I went to law school on a full scholarship and ended up in the top
half of my class." Politico rated all of these assertions false.
Sociologist Nathan Galler said “Biden's chief character flaw is hypocrisy.”
Biden’s 1987 bid for the White House ended abruptly when he got caught
plagiarizing a speech by Britain’s Neil Kinnock. Biden retold his speech,
verbatim, about being the first in his family to go to college and said his
family worked in the coal mines. Both of those were untrue, taken directly
from Kinnock’s speech. The media whitewashed allegations Biden made illicit
advances toward Tara Reade. They never commented on Biden’s son, Hunter’s,
shady dealings in the Ukraine. When The New York Post released the story
and proved Hunter Biden made millions in the Ukraine with the help of Joe
Biden, he said, “This is family business.” Biden called an Iowa voter a
“damn liar” when he told him about Ukraine. Both Twitter and Facebook are
running cover for him. Abraham Lincoln said, “What kills a skunk is the
publicity it gives itself.” Biden has been spinning tales for decades to
prop up his résumé. When he accepted his party’s nomination for president,
he paraphrased Dr. Martin Luther King: “This election is about character?”
Nobody in the media said a word, although they recently said, “Biden has
had the Pinocchio Syndrome since birth.” It is obvious the media is now
watchdogs only for Democrats and no longer guard dogs for the voters.
Donald Trump is the fist president since George Washington elected by the
people and not a party, and the media and the left refused to accept that.
They put him through hell for three years trying to destroy his character
and the GOP. They’ve spent four years assembling an army of leftist actors,
street activists, liberal media giants, and rich climate kooks to take him
out and destroy the GOP in 2020. And they have chosen someone who makes
Pinocchio look like a fact-checker to lead them? Comparing Donald Trump’s
excitability, and boasting to Joe Biden’s fabricated fables and continual
lies, is like criticizing the guy who tells a fish story about the one that
got away and praising the guy who never went fishing and lied that he once
caught a wale? If the left claims this election is about character, voters
need to look at these candidates’ accomplishments, not the things they
“claim to have accomplished.” If they do, they will find facts speak for
themselves and reveal the real truth. “Political merchandisers appeal only
to the weak-nesses of voters, never to their potential strength. They make
no attempt to educate the masses into becoming fit for self-governing.” –
Aldous Huxley

William Haupt III is a retired professional journalist, author, and citizen
legislator in California for over 40 years. He got his start working to
approve California Proposition 13.


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