Joe Being Joe [Jonah Goldberg]
From a close friend of mine:
Jonah:
You cant simply be resigned to everyone saying its Joe being Joe and alas. If hes going to be the master of the details, and the details are ridiculously wrong, he has to be called on it. Forget every one of the Goldfarb lies you link to as many of them can all debated . But first on substance, the spending on Afghanistan point is so off and so embarrassing, you cant spin it as you could the difference between differing senate resolutions on troop funding. Its a dreadful mistake for someone whos said come with me to Afghanistan, and all that stuff, and its their CENTRAL riposte for the Iraq war so its not like some bizarre point about Burma foreign aid. And if [the Western Standard] is right, hes been saying it and not been called on it repeatedly so its not a verbal glitch. Second, on style, for him to go into a deliberate spiel about hows hes the man of the people, kicking it at Home Depot, and come on down to Katies restaurant on Union Street, and be talking about A RESTAURANT THAT CLOSED 20 YEARS AGO AT A DIFFERENT ADDRESS, is proof that his populism is phony and thats hes totally out of touch . Its not like he garbled the name of some bar in Maumee Ohio, its HIS HOMETOWN OF 40 YEARS. Its like the Wilmington stop on Amtrak is friggin Brigadoon or something.
He just makes up crap. Sorry about the all caps. The tinfoil hat made me do it.
I am proud to report that I am the freeper who caught the Biden lie about Katie’s Italian Restauant in Wilmington (which closed 20 years ago) and reported it on FR last night and at NRO this morning.
The good thing about this type of misstatement is that it becomes a manifestation of something much larger: lies, exaggerations, distortions etc