Biden Lies AGAIN: 'I Was A Student Up North In the Civil Rights Movement'

  • Bias Rating

    60% Very Conservative

  • Reliability

    85% ReliableGood

  • Policy Leaning

    2% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

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Bias Score Analysis

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"However, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations at that time, Andrew Young, refuted Biden's claim outright: There is no chance I ever was arrested in South Africa, and I don't think Joe was, either."
Negative
-30% Liberal
"Biden even had the audacity to add a few days later that after Mandela was freed and became president of South Africa, he came to Washington and came to my office."
Positive
16% Conservative
"I was a student up north in the civil rights movement, Biden informed his audience in Selma."
Positive
10% Conservative
"The motive for this serial dishonesty is almost always immediately clear, as it was in Selma on Sunday: Old Joe wants to coect with and impress his audience, and he has developed a longstanding habit of doing so by making up some story to show his identification with them."
Positive
8% Conservative
"Biden, Kessler noted, has a tendency to embellish aspects of his life story."
Positive
6% Conservative
"As is his longstanding habit, Biden seized the opportunity to embroider on his life story in order to demonstrate that he was not only on the side of the good guys, but had been all along."
Positive
4% Conservative
"You got arrested trying to see me.'Related: Joe Biden's Astonishing Pre-Midterm Lie Merits an Investigation"
Positive
4% Conservative
"There is no evidence, RNC Research tells us, that Biden was ever involved in the civil rights movement as a student."
Positive
0% Conservative
"And you goin' through what you were goin' through, lookin' at those -- I can still picture...Here the available video mercifully ends, but Joe had made his point: he has been a civil rights campaigner for longer than most of you folks have been alive, see?"
Negative
-8% Liberal
"In the civil rights arena, Biden also claimed in Feb. 2020 that he had been arrested in South Africa while trying to visit Nelson Mandela in prison: I had the great honor of being arrested with our U.N. ambassador on the streets of Soweto trying to get to see him on Robbens Island."
Negative
-10% Liberal
"He was in high school, playing football.'Kessler asserts that Biden participated in just one walk-out at one restaurant, and also picketed a segregated movie theater, but conceded that the garrulous old liar has gotten in trouble before for overstating his civil-right credentials."
Negative
-12% Liberal
"Old Joe Biden swung by Selma, Ala., on Sunday to commemorate the 58th aiversary of Bloody Sunday, the March 7, 1965, civil rights march in Selma that state troopers attacked with tear gas and clubs, leading to serious injuries to seventeen marchers."
Negative
-22% Liberal
"What's more, the Washington Post, again abandoning its customary cheerleader role, noted: Biden's memoir makes no mention of any such arrest."
Negative
-22% Liberal
"Kessler noted that Richard Ben Cramer's book What It Takes, which profiles the 1988 Democrat presidential candidates, described how Biden would talk about participating in civil rights marches -- 'remember how that felt' -- but 'trouble is, Joe didn't march."
Negative
-24% Liberal
"Kessler noted that Richard Ben Cramer's book What It Takes, which profiles the 1988 Democrat presidential candidates, described how Biden would talk about participating in civil rights marches -- 'remember how that felt' -- but 'trouble is, Joe didn't march."
Negative
-24% Liberal
"Gle Kessler, ordinarily an indefatigable Biden apologist, entitled Joe Biden's shifting recollection on his civil rights activities."
Negative
-28% Liberal
"Gle Kessler, ordinarily an indefatigable Biden apologist, entitled Joe Biden's shifting recollection on his civil rights activities."
Negative
-28% Liberal
"However, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations at that time, Andrew Young, refuted Biden's claim outright: There is no chance I ever was arrested in South Africa, and I don't think Joe was, either."
Negative
-30% Liberal
"However, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations at that time, Andrew Young, refuted Biden's claim outright: There is no chance I ever was arrested in South Africa, and I don't think Joe was, either."
Negative
-30% Liberal
"However, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations at that time, Andrew Young, refuted Biden's claim outright: There is no chance I ever was arrested in South Africa, and I don't think Joe was, either."
Negative
-30% Liberal
"As far as we can tell, Biden never mentioned this arrest before; neither can we locate any news accounts of him being arrested."
Negative
-32% Liberal
"Biden has told so many lies that a sizable book could be written just quoting them all."
Negative
-44% Liberal
"Old Joe's lies about being a noble warrior for racial justice got so embarrassing during his alleged presidential campaign that even the Washington Post, ordinarily a reliable propaganda arm for any Leftist candidate, felt the need to try to explain away Biden's repeated lies."
Negative
-68% Liberal
"Old Joe's lies about being a noble warrior for racial justice got so embarrassing during his alleged presidential campaign that even the Washington Post, ordinarily a reliable propaganda arm for any Leftist candidate, felt the need to try to explain away Biden's repeated lies."
Negative
-68% Liberal

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35% : However, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations at that time, Andrew Young, refuted Biden's claim outright: "There is no chance I ever was arrested in South Africa, and I don't think Joe was, either."

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