Episode 1169 • • 1:50:13 - 1:54:21
1169: Hockeystick Hoax
Biden Medal Story Deconstruction, "Word as a Biden"
The Washington Post deconstructed a story Joe Biden frequently tells about pinning a Silver Star on a Navy captain in Afghanistan's Kunar Valley. Fact-checkers found that Biden conflated three different events, misidentified the soldier's rank, and was a Senator rather than Vice President at the time. Despite the inaccuracies, Biden maintained that the "central point" of the story was accurate.