On the latest edition of The Editors podcast, Charlie Cooke addressed Joe Biden’s fabulism, saying, “This isn’t new, but it has gotten worse.”
“Over time, he has lost whatever guile he brought to the table, because he now makes all manner of claims that can be very easily checked,” Cooke said. “Some of his earlier fabrications involved his youth at a time where cameras were not ubiquitous. He hadn’t yet written autobiographies. He hadn’t been in the Senate for years.”
In contrast, there was massive coverage of September 11, Cooke noted, and everyone knows where U.S. senators were the next day.
“But he can’t help himself, and he can’t help himself because he is a narcissist mediocrity who feels as if he is Forrest Gump, but without the intelligence deficiency,” he continued. “He honestly seems to think that at every point in American history, he was there, he played some massive role.”
“If it’s the civil-rights movement, he’s there desegregating movie theaters and sitting at the lunch counters. Even though he was strongly against gay marriage, he and his dad were running around 1950s Scranton praising men for kissing each other in the streets. And now, of course, he was there on 9/11 staring into the wreckage.
“Well, he wasn’t. We all know that he wasn’t.”