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Showing Original Post only (View all)Biden rejects report he flubbed details in anecdote about war heroes [View all]
PoliticoFormer Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday rebuffed a news report that he has recently misrepresented an anecdote on the campaign trail about giving awards for valor to members of the military, possibly conflating three separate real life events.
Though Biden said he hadnt seen the Washington Post article, he told a reporter for the The Post and Courier after a campaign event in South Carolina that he stood by his retellings of meeting with heroes of the Afghanistan war over the last decade.
According to The Post, Biden has told a shifting and increasingly dramatic account of a trip to Afghanistan while vice president to award a medal to a heroic soldier who initially resisted the honor out of guilt. The former vice president most recently told the story at a campaign event in New Hampshire last Friday.
But The Post found after conducting interviews with more than a dozen U.S. troops, their commanders and Biden campaign officials, it appears as though the former vice president has jumbled elements of at least three actual events into one story of bravery, compassion and regret that never happened.
Though Biden said he hadnt seen the Washington Post article, he told a reporter for the The Post and Courier after a campaign event in South Carolina that he stood by his retellings of meeting with heroes of the Afghanistan war over the last decade.
According to The Post, Biden has told a shifting and increasingly dramatic account of a trip to Afghanistan while vice president to award a medal to a heroic soldier who initially resisted the honor out of guilt. The former vice president most recently told the story at a campaign event in New Hampshire last Friday.
But The Post found after conducting interviews with more than a dozen U.S. troops, their commanders and Biden campaign officials, it appears as though the former vice president has jumbled elements of at least three actual events into one story of bravery, compassion and regret that never happened.
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primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
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Biden rejects report he flubbed details in anecdote about war heroes [View all]
brooklynite
Aug 2019
OP
I tend to agree ... doubling down on an unforced error is not a good look ...
mr_lebowski
Aug 2019
#26
Frankly, most of these "Biden did this, forgot that" OPs might have a little credibility
elocs
Aug 2019
#2
Agree. Many of the "undecideds" here show definite preferences, and opposition
highplainsdem
Aug 2019
#9
I agree. I really hope we don't end up as mean as a past primary season was.
marble falls
Aug 2019
#13
This New Yorker article explains how even college students scramble remembered details:
highplainsdem
Aug 2019
#5
Memory studies show that people in the same/place /time/experience remember things differently.
ancianita
Aug 2019
#14
Exactly. As I mentioned to someone else here today, I've seen my relatives at family reunions
highplainsdem
Aug 2019
#16
Your experience is the same as everyone else's. This memory crap about Biden is ageist BS.
ancianita
Aug 2019
#18
Peter Hamby had a really good piece about this stupid media coverage in Vanity Fair a couple of days
highplainsdem
Aug 2019
#19
I've gotten Vanity Fair for 20+ yrs, New Yorker for 30, and yep, this is good media criticism.
ancianita
Aug 2019
#20
Considering he has been around a while it is easy to get time and events confused.
LiberalFighter
Aug 2019
#17
Sure all Republicans no doubt who remember it differently ...good thing most don't believe shit
Demsrule86
Aug 2019
#21