This has been a good day for Twitchy. Pennsylvania Senate candidate John Fetterman ditched the hoodie and gym shorts and put on a suit to greet President Joe Biden, who was in Pittsburgh Thursday to campaign for him. Biden did all of the talking, and Fetterman’s wife, Gisele, who’ll make a great, great lady in the Senate, was on duty to turn away any reporters who tried to ask her husband questions during their celebration.
But that’s not all!
It was just a week ago that the New York Times did a piece on how “Storyteller in Chief” Biden spins yarns that often unravel. Other people might call him a pathological liar, but Biden’s just trying to be folksy and relatable. You lost your home in a hurricane? His burned down with Jill inside.
RNC Research seems to think it’s caught Biden spinning another one of those yarns that have already been debunked.
Joe Biden claims his grandfather was an "All-American football player"
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— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) October 20, 2022
Biden's claim, unsurprisingly, appears to be completely made up
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— Zach Parkinson (@AZachParkinson) October 20, 2022
This isn't the first time Biden's claimed this
He's frequently repeated it, saying his grandfather was an "All-American" football player at Santa Clara
Even back in the 1980s, Richard Ben Cramer's "What It Takes" mentions this
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— Zach Parkinson (@AZachParkinson) October 20, 2022
But Santa Clara's athletic records list no one by the name of Finnegan as having ever been an All-American there
The official history of the college's football program shows the samehttps://t.co/QSfJehEV6Hhttps://t.co/HefB4wecDX
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— Zach Parkinson (@AZachParkinson) October 20, 2022
And the NCAA's records show no evidence of Finnegan having been an All-American at Santa Clarahttps://t.co/5toA6yzKVd
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— Zach Parkinson (@AZachParkinson) October 20, 2022
Santa Clara College says Ambrose Finnegan did attend the school and played football in the early 1900s
And Finnegan told a Scranton newspaper in 1937 that he was Santa Clara's quarterback from 1900-1903https://t.co/HFQYgLxZNp
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— Zach Parkinson (@AZachParkinson) October 20, 2022
But again, the NCAA's records show no one from Santa Clara as All-Americans in 1900-1903https://t.co/5toA6yzKVd
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— Zach Parkinson (@AZachParkinson) October 20, 2022
What about the second and the third teams?
Wikipedia has aggregated the various 1900-1903 AA lists together and … no one from Santa Clara (including Finnegan) is listedhttps://t.co/3rVuxOS6JWhttps://t.co/wjMRqimkTEhttps://t.co/TLyucZuTWUhttps://t.co/zBq6yTzXaZ
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— Zach Parkinson (@AZachParkinson) October 20, 2022
So what of Santa Clara's team at this time? Was Finnegan playing high-level football?
No
During this era it "was run largely as a student-led club activity" and "there is no official record" of the school even playing from 1900-1902https://t.co/e6msieNHr3
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— Zach Parkinson (@AZachParkinson) October 20, 2022
H/T to @HowieCarrShow and @AmericanThinker who have covered some of this before https://t.co/Ymu77zfnkYhttps://t.co/TEcr8kGNHk
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— Zach Parkinson (@AZachParkinson) October 20, 2022
Has there ever been a bigger tell than when Joe Biden says he isn't joking?
— The Streeter (@thestreeter) October 20, 2022
“I’m not joking” and “You think I’m kidding” are good signs Biden’s about to make something up.
Doesn't matter, no media will call him out. He can continue his lies…
— Part Time Trades (@MichaelBagsby) October 20, 2022
He’s repeated so many fables about himself in his lifetime that it’s now to the point he’s imprinted them in his brain as real memories. He truly believes, I think, most all of his own fabulism.
— Jeff (@jeff_karr) October 20, 2022
He didn’t realize how easy this one can be fact checked.
— AlphaKennyBody (@Sorry_I_Didnt) October 20, 2022
Joe just being Joe.
— 🇺🇸 Philly the Kid 🇺🇸 (@GAVolb) October 20, 2022
Biden, pathological liar. 🤥
— Pinchay the Boneless (@jonygitar) October 20, 2022
Corn Pop was actually the All American. Grandpa was just a decent player. Easy to confuse.
— Wm. Brady🇺🇸 (@WilliamBradyCoS) October 20, 2022
Just a little shaving the edges off the truth.
— Irwin R. Schyster (@I_R_Schyster) October 20, 2022
It’s a sickness with this guy. If you lie about nonsense things for no reason, imagine your capacity to lie when it matters.
— michael stuart (@studog25) October 20, 2022
https://twitter.com/b_yondordinary/status/1583206003314597888
Some people are posting an article about Ambrose Finnegan from the Santa Clara Magazine … that says nothing at all about him being an All-American, so we’re not sure why they’re bothering.
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Related:
NYT’s attempt to paint Biden as some charming ‘Storyteller in Chief’ instead of the big fat liar he really is goes SO wronghttps://t.co/ab9QQ0UiXE
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) October 11, 2022
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