Where Joe Biden Got His “Lying Dog Faced Pony Soldier” Line From

New York (VINnews)

by Peniel Gold

So here is the background.  Joe Biden was canvassing in New Hampshire. Madison Moore, a 21-year-old economics student, asked the former vice-president whether voters could remain confident in his campaign after his poor performance in the Iowa caucuses. Biden responded that he was a caucus (he probably meant that he was at a caucus, but misspoke).  Biden then asked Miss Moore if she had ever attended a caucus.

Moore said, “yes.” Biden responded with an inexplicable, “No you haven’t! You’re a lying, dog-faced pony soldier.”

Pretty much every one is wondering where on earth Joe Biden got this now famous term – “You’re a lying dog-faced pony soldier.”  The world’s media is clueless.  To find the source, some serious talmudic-level research is in order.

This article will present two theories.

FIRST THEORY

Let us go back to 1952.  A ten-year-old Joe Biden goes to a movie theatre in his home town of Scranton, Pennsylvania, where he sees one of Hollywood’s then most famous actors – Tyrone Power star in a new 20^th Century Fox movie entitled, “Pony Soldier.”  It is a swash-buckling film where Tyrone Power plays a Canadian soldier who is trying to rescue two Americans who were kidnapped by the Cree Indian tribe.

Twenty four minutes into the movie, the hero, Constable Duncan MacDonald, claims to the chief of the Cree Indian Tribe that the Crees kidnapped two Americans.  The chief responds, “The pony soldier speaks with the tongue of a snake that rattles.”

But like the telephone game that everyone is familiar with, the recall of a ten-year-old boy is very tenuous and shaky.  A ten-year-old’s imagination runs high and different items in the head of young boys often get conflated with each other.   The young Jo Biden goes over it and over it in his head and then with his friends or brothers as they relive the lines in the movie.  Ty Power is confused with John Wayne.  The rattle snake is replaced with the term “lying.”  It is easier than the rattle snake quote.

And then there is Word War Two which had just ended.  The Third Infantry Division of World War Two has their famous song – where they call themselves “Dog-faced” on account of their camouflage makeup.  The song also states how they eat “Kraut” for breakfast – alluding not just to sauerkraut but the German nazi soldiers themselves.  The reference is irresistible for a young ten-year-old and his friends.  The two frame of references in this young child’s mind combine together forever and manifests twice in the mind of the adult seventy-eight year-old presidential candidate.

THEORY TWO

That’s the first theory.  The second theory is that Hunter Biden, Joe Biden’s son, bought the rights to the remake of “Pony Soldier” and stands to make a lot of money off it.  Biden was just looking out for his son.

The first theory is probably more on the money.