The Strange Origins of Joe Biden’s “Lying Dog-Faced Pony Soldier” Phrase

Joe Biden’s use of the phrase “lying dog-faced pony soldier” has caused confusion among many, including National Review subscribers and fans of John Wayne. The reality is that no actor, not even the Duke, has ever uttered this phrase, except in composite. It seems that Biden’s geriatric neurons have clipped and misfiled memory bits, gathering them together via mental duct-tape to create a never-happened movie recollection. An investigation of John Wayne’s filmography suggests that scenes from two Wayne movies have melded together in the Biden brain clutter to produce the nonsensical, contrived line. The smallest contribution to the phrase is “pony,” which likely comes from a character played by Chief John Big Tree of the Seneca Nation in She Wore a Yellow Ribbon. A bigger chunk of the phrase emanates from the same movie’s initial dramatic scenes, about a cavalry scouting party that has come upon an uncontrolled, racing stagecoach. The word “lying” can be attributed to a scene from another John Ford classic, The Quiet Man, in which John Wayne’s character denies having impure thoughts about a woman. In conclusion, the phrase “lying dog-faced pony soldier” is a patchwork of memories and boasts from Biden’s Wayne-addled, scene-spliced movie memory.