The line also happens to be a lie. //
Charlotte Alter
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Sep 17, 2020
Biden: "Guys like me, the first in my family to go to college... we are as good as anybody else, and guys like Trump, who inherited everything and squandered what they inherited, are the people I've always had a problem with"
Mollie
@MZHemingway
FWIW, the New York Times reported in 1987 that Biden admitted his claim of being the first in his family to go to college was not true. It was rather famously plagiarized from a speech by British Labor leader Neil Kinnock. https://nytimes.com/1987/09/18/us/biden-admits-plagiarism-in-school-but-says-it-was-not-malevolent.html
Sean Davis
@seanmdav
Not only is Biden’s claim not true, it was plagiarized by Biden during his first presidential campaign run back in 1987.
Again, the big problem with so many in political media isn’t that they’re biased; it’s that they’re ignorant and often quite dumb.