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TOO MANY LIES

If Joe Biden lies and the media ignore it, does he make a sound?

Shawn Steffee was at a political function in Indiana County, Pennsylvania, last Thursday evening when he started receiving an overwhelming number of calls and text messages. “My phone started going off like a slot machine. Initially, I had no idea what was going on,” he said from his home in Homer City.

Steffee, a Boilermakers Local 154 business agent and executive board member, soon found the flood of texts and calls were because Joe Biden lied about Steffee and his union supporting him during the ABC News town hall event last week. Host George Stephanopoulos noted Steffee by name in a question about the sincerity of Biden’s support of fracking. Steffee had told the New York Times that Biden’s sudden vocal support of fracking is inconsistent with his goal of ending the use of fossil fuels, and Stephanopoulos pressed him on Steffee’s statement.

"The boilermakers overwhelmingly endorse me, OK?" Biden snapped on Thursday, adding, "So, the Boilermakers Union has endorsed me because I sat down with them, went into great detail with leadership, exactly what I would do, No. 1."

Except they didn’t.

In truth, the Local 154 endorsed President Trump in a September message from business leader John Hughes. They appeared with him onstage at a massive rally shortly after. “Biden flat-out lied. I'm only speaking for my local union, which is the largest boilermaker union in the country,” said Steffee.

The International Boilermakers Union has not endorsed anyone.
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Biden’s lie about the Boilermakers' endorsement will go unchallenged by the national press; they seemingly only chase candidate lies that ruffle their sensibilities. Nor will the lie trend on Twitter because 69% of highly prolific Twitter users are Democrats. Most Twitter users are not the kind who live in places like Homer City. Rather, most are the kind of people that spend their time on Twitter making fun of people like Steffee.

No matter who wins the election, the press will continue to not understand people who live and work and pray like Steffee. They’ll parachute in every four years and spin yarns about their trip to a local diner, talk in hushed tones about how many guns these people own and the faith they practice, and once again never fully understand who they are and what matters to them.

It is a problem with the national news because they don’t know anyone like Steffee or know anyone who's lived in a place like Homer City or been hunting with their fathers, sons, or daughters. The big mistake they will make, though, is that they think voters like Steffee will go away, that their issues will go away, and their concerns will go away.

They won’t. The wave elections will continue because politicians and the press only highlight voters like Steffee for copy, especially if their vote has moved in a direction they approve of or understand, and they rarely listen to the validity of their point of view. (read more)

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