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Throughout his more than half-century as an elected federal official, Joe Biden has been called and challenged on his lack of accuracy and tendency to embellish and invent in his formal writing and speaking.
Did President Biden build on that legacy in his State of the Union address last night?
The verdict is mixed.
Predictably, media judgment on how closely Biden adhered to and aligned himself with the truth fluctuated depending on the ideology of the editorial and opinion section of the outlet, with those with liberal and progressive leanings awarding the president higher marks for veracity than those meaning conservative and to the right.
Right-leaning Fox News published a story with the leading and telling title, “Fact checkers call out Biden’s State of the Union claims about the deficit as ‘misleading,’ ‘lacking context.’”
The article noted, “Several liberal media outlets quickly took issue with Biden’s remarks.”
At the Capitol, Biden had said, “In the last two years, my administration has cut the deficit by more than $1.
