Even WaPo and NYT aren’t buying this load of malarky.
During a recent appearance on The Daily Show, President Biden told guest host Kal Penn his now-infamous story about how he had an “epiphany” about same-sex marriage.
“I can remember exactly when my epiphany was,” Biden told Penn. “I hadn’t thought about it much, to tell you the truth. I was a senior in high school and my dad was dropping me off. I remember about to get out of the car, and I looked to my right and two well-dressed men in suits kissed each other.”
Biden claims, in this version of the tall tale, that his father said “Joey, it’s simple. They love each other.”
But Biden has told this whopper before —and sometimes, he’s the father character.
From Fox News:
The Post’s Glenn Kessler wrote that there were three reasons to “be skeptical of this story as Biden retells it,” the first being that gay men were “largely closeted at the time.”
The fact-check also notes that Biden told the New York Times a version of the story in which he was the father.
Biden told the outlet about how one of his children “looked up at him quizzically after seeing two men headed off to work kiss each other goodbye on a busy street corner” and added that he said, ‘They love each other, honey,’ and that was it.”
“So it was never anything that was a struggle in my mind,” he continued.
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In another variation of the story, Biden said he was driving with his father as a “junior in high school” and saw two men kissing in the next car while at a red light, according to the fact-check.
The outlet also noted that Biden voted for the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) in 1996. The law defined “‘marriage’ as only a legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife.”
Biden came out in support of same-sex marriage in 2012 while he was vice president.
Watch Biden’s bullschiff above.
Biden caught telling multiple versions of infamous gay marriage 'epiphany' story in fact-check https://t.co/wk5VLeSILs
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