By Phil Watson
As far as big fish stories, nobody would accuse Vice President Joe Biden of having Honest Abe like qualities. Notorious for plagiarizing speeches in a previous presidential run and in college, Obama’s bombastic VP appears to be in trouble for bending the truth again, this time for apparently misrepresenting his presence near a shooting.
LancasterOnline has the scoop:
When trying to verify Joe Biden’s recent story that he was golfing within earshot of the Oct. 2, 2006, shooting at Nickel Mines, one thing is clear.
There are a lot of places to enjoy a round of golf in the region.
But whether the 70-year-old vice president was playing at any of the courses on the day of the one-room schoolhouse massacre still remains a mystery.
If he was in the area, he wasn’t at Moccasin Run Golf Club in Atglen.
Curt King, the owner of the club, said there is no record of Biden — then a U.S. senator — visiting the golf course that day.
“When someone of that stature comes to your business, you don’t forget something like that,” he said.
Moccasin Run, the closest club to the Nickel Mines community, is about six miles away.
King said he has combed through his club’s database, which records the name of every player who uses the course, to double-check the claim.
“We have no record of him being here that day, or that he has ever golfed here,” he said.
As for the scene at the course the day in question, King said it was just like every other day.
“There was no outing or special event,” he said. “Like most days, it was open to the public.”
Speaking last week to the U.S. Conference of Mayors in Washington, D.C., about gun violence, Biden made the surprising revelation that he was playing golf within a quarter-of-a-mile of the schoolhouse when a troubled truck driver shot 10 Amish girls, killing five and wounding five.
After Biden’s secretive gun control meeting in Virginia today, there’s no telling what he might say next.
Another politician with a possible Pinocchio-esque nose growth issue appears to be Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.,) now in a he said she said with the NRA.
Shall Not Be Questioned has the scoop:
He says he’s working on a universal background check bill, and notes:
“With exceptions. The exceptions are: Families, immediate family members, some sporting events that you’re going to — that if you’re just going to be using them at the sporting events. So we’re looking and talking to people with expertise. I’m working with the NRA, to be honest with you, and talking to them,” he said.
NRA is denying it:
“If Sen. Manchin supports putting private transfers between law-abiding citizens under the thumb of the Obama-Holder justice department, we will vigorously oppose those efforts,” said NRA spokesman Andrew Arulanandam.
As if that wasn’t enough, the Daily Caller has the dish on Manchin’s testy meeting with WVCDL’s Keith Morgan:
Manchin, the former governor, won his Senate seat partially on the strength of a television ad in which he fired a rifle bullet through a copy of the “cap and trade” environmental legislation, a bill that was wildly unpopular in coal-rich West Virginia.
“As your Senator,” he said in the ad, “I’ll protect our Second Amendment rights. That’s why the NRA endorsed me.”
But today, Morgan wrote, Manchin, “supports magazine capacity limits, and possibly other restrictions.”
Manchin’s press office did not respond to two emailed requests for comment.
If Manchin ends up straying on Second Amendment issues, it’s doubtful the faithful Mountain State voters will humor his anti-gun shenanigans when his re-election rolls around.
