… to merely being an opportunistic liar:
The conservative alumni group Concerned Alumni of Princeton (CAP) has been the subject of criticism in recent weeks, but yesterday the University itself also came under scrutiny.Sen. Joseph Biden (D-Del.), who grilled Samuel Alito ‘72 about his CAP membership, also said that he "wasn’t a big Princeton fan."
"I didn’t even like Princeton," he said, to laughter from the gallery. "I mean, I really didn’t like Princeton. I was an Irish Catholic kid who thought it had not changed like you concluded it had," referring to Alito’s earlier statement that Princeton had changed its traditional ways before he enrolled.
But Biden had nothing but praise for the University in a 2004 speech at the Wilson School.