• Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler on Thursday wrote about Biden’s habit of telling “certain stories” about his life that “aren’t credible.” (Lies.) The president, Kessler wrote, has a “propensity to exaggerate or embellish.” (He lies.)

• CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale rarely pays attention to Biden’s lies, but he did write something earlier this month highlighting a few of the president’s “false personal anecdotes.” (Lies.)

• The New York Times wrote last year about how Biden “spins yarns that often unravel.” (He lies.) Biden has “embraced storytelling as a way of connecting with his audience,” the Times explained, but those stories occasionally include details with “the factual edges shaved off to make them more powerful.” (Lies.)

Why it matters: If journalists cared about being accurate, they wouldn’t be afraid to use the word “lie” to describe Biden’s lies.

[They’re still trying to pass Biden off as charming — which is another lie. He’s a vicious demagogue, and has been for decades, as well as a shameless fabulist who routinely lies about himself and his supposed accomplishments. If Biden were a Republican, the media would have buried him decades ago as a pathological liar and serial plagiarist, not an avuncular teller of tall tales. That shows them to be liars as well. — Ed]