What Does Fabulist Mean? Definition & Examples
Drop a needle on any era of Biden’s 50-year career, and you’re going to hear a greatest hit.
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"At first glance, I thought The New York Times had finally written a piece highlighting Joe Biden’s decades-long propensity to lie. Instead, what we got was more of an explanation.
"Biden’s “folksiness,” contends The New York Times, “can veer into a personal folklore” with “the factual edges shaved off to make them more powerful for audiences.” (Not to be pedantic, but folklore is a collection of stories and legends shared by a community, not stories and legends concocted by a single person. Those are more appropriately called “fictions.”) The Times expends many words assuring its audience that Donald Trump’s lies were much, much worse than Biden’s largely innocuous folklore.
"Maybe, maybe not. Most of the lie counters have been shut down. The Times taps left-wing journalist Eric Alterman as an expert on presidential mendacity to help us out. He argues that Biden – “a good and decent man”– is merely guilty of engaging in the kind of lies “grandfathers” might tell. Biden has a “tendency,” Alterman says, to “stretch the truth up to a point just like virtually every president has done.”
"History disputes this contention.". . .
Biden Claims Lightning Destroyed His Home, But It Was Actually Just A “Small” Kitchen Fire… "He is incapable of telling the truth."
