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….