Representative-elect George Santos addresses his “embellishments”: Why integrity still matters
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 29 December 2022
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New York Representative-elect George Santos recently made his first televised appearance since the New York Times revealed that he lied about several elements of his résumé. It did not go as well as he'd hoped. However, our attempts at penitence often fail for the same reasons as his, and there's an important lesson there for each of us to consider.
Author: Ryan Denison, PhD
Narrator: Chris Elkins
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| 0:49.0 | I'm Chris Elkins with the Denison Forum, narrating today's article written by Dr. Ryan Denison, who is the Denison Forum Senior Editor for Theology. |
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| 1:00.6 | New York Representative-elect George Santos recently made his first televised appearance |
| 1:06.1 | since the New York Times revealed that he lied about several elements off his resume. It did not go as well |
| 1:12.9 | as he had hoped. As a brief overview of the controversy surrounding Santos, he defeated Democrat |
| 1:18.8 | Robert Zimmerman in November's election, running on a campaign built largely around his story |
| 1:24.2 | of rising from poverty to prominence. Yet, as he admitted to the New York Post, |
| 1:29.4 | several elements of that story were false. Among the most problematic lies relate to his Jewish heritage, |
| 1:36.8 | he clarified that he is Jewish rather than Jewish because his grandmother was Jewish before converting |
| 1:43.0 | to Catholicism. |
| 1:50.2 | This, despite claiming to be a proud American Jew in campaign materials sent to Jewish constituents, the Republican Jewish Coalition has since stated that he misrepresented his heritage |
| 1:56.7 | and will not be welcome at any future events. |
| 2:00.9 | In addition, he claimed that he graduated from Baruch College when he never even attended |
| 2:06.1 | and holds no college degree. |
| 2:08.5 | He also said that he worked for Goldman Sachs and Citigroup when he was never employed by either. |
| 2:15.3 | He has since referred to these errors as embellishing my resume and apologized. |
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