Posted on 10/31/2020 6:40:31 AM PDT by texas booster
Fri Oct 30, 2020
Media fact checking is a corrupt suppressive industry.
As discussed yesterday, one of the patented media fact checking gimmicks is to make true stories seem false by finding a somewhat inaccurate version of them and fact checking that version.
The AP, when it's not busy with the Orwellian of rewriting the meanings of simple terms in the English language, like "riot", has rolled out yet another tired "fact check".
Biden did not eulogize former KKK “grand wizard” - AP
This is part of a roster of fact check of the same internet meme
Fact check: Biden isn't with KKK grand wizard in photo - USA Today
Fact check: Robert Byrd, eulogized by Joe Biden at funeral, was not KKK Grand Wizard - Reuters
False claim: Joe Biden pictured with “Grand Wizard” of Ku Klux Klan - Reuters
That's right. Two Reuters fact checks.
The fact checks all come down to the same thing. Senator Robert Byrd was a Klan recruiter who was so good at it that a Klavern was set up and he received the honorary title of Exalted Cyclops, which is the highest level within a chapter, he was not a Grand Wizard.
Okay.
Plenty of conservative publications correctly stated Byrd's title. And the distinction has a difference, but it's also deliberate nitpicking to distract from the substantive issue, which is that Byrd was a Klan leader and it was that organization which helped propel him into a life in politics.
Or to put it another way, if President Trump had eulogized a Klan leader, the takeaway would not be fact checks as to his exact title.
This is a particular type of media fact check which uses nitpicking to divert attention from the substantive issue while making it appear that the accurate statements about Biden and Byrd are false. And since Big Tech elevates this media spin under the guise of fact checks, that means anyone searching for the real story will get a barrage of media disinformation instead.
That's what this is, disinformation.
Article from Thursday:
The Media Would Like Everyone to Know Biden Eulogized a KKK Exalted Cyclops, Not Grand Wizard
By Daniel Greenfield The Sultan Knish
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam.
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Precisely what they do to President Trump. If he is off just a tiny bit, the entire statement is condemned as a lie, and they tiny brained leftists scream to the moon once again.
The President should made a “YUGE” deal about publicly correcting that, as in “I just wanted to fact check myself: Biden didn’t eulogize Grand Wizard Robert Byrd, he eulogize Exalted Cyclops Robert Byrd. Byrd was a very good recruiter for the KKK. There you go! Biden praises Exalted Cyclops of the KKK!!
Of course, that would be omitted from the news while they “fact check” it once again.
Bummer.
PFL
Such utter Bullstalin.
Denial ain’t a river and Al Reuters, AssPress and the other orgs are Corrupt AF racists defending Biden and Byrd and denying his KKK leadership position.
Bill Clinton claimed that Byrd only had joined the Ku Klux Klan because in order to win in those days you HAD to join the KKK. Since the beginning the KKK was and anti-Republican terrorist group.
And what of the Klansmaan Virginia governor?
Stalinists lie. Always
>>Precisely what they do to President Trump. If he is off just a tiny bit, the entire statement is condemned as a lie, and they tiny brained leftists scream to the moon once again.
The media did this in 2008 to bury Barack’s Islamic past and his own campaign falsely claimed on their website that he was a lifelong Christian.
Who just happened to be raised by 2 Islamic dads, an agnostic mother, and Unitarian grandparents. He went to Koranic studies class and was listed as a muslim in his school records from Indoesia.
He called Jesus a historical figure and called the Islamic call to prayer his favorite sound.
His lone claim of Christianity comes from (former muslim) Jeremiah Wright’s hate rallies and Barry said that he was a better Christian than those who were born and raised in the faith because HE came to it as an ADULT.
It makes no difference to me, what the rank of KKK Joe Biden eulogized.
You’re welcome. I don’t often do that, but this time, this time, it seemed crucial.
Thanks for the ping Tex...
Okay.
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The President should made a “YUGE” deal about publicly correcting that, as in “I just wanted to fact check myself: Biden didn’t eulogize Grand Wizard Robert Byrd, he eulogize Exalted Cyclops Robert Byrd. Byrd was a very good recruiter for the KKK. There you go! Biden praises Exalted Cyclops of the KKK!!
Lots of black rappers are jumping on the Trump train... Maybe one of them could be so kind as to explain this to the AP and Reuters. And the hundreds of papers that will parrot this garbage. Biden WAS with Byrd...praised a KKK Exalted Cyclops ...
Or they find just one part in particular they can say was wrong in order to label the whole of it negatively.
Some of then appreciated the article!
Exalted Cyclops. Kinda like being a made man in the Mob. Not as prestigious as being the boss of all bosses, but pretty high up and, for lack of a better word, respectable.
The KKK was a Democrat thug organization in the Jim Crow South. It was Republicans that passed all the early civil rights legislation...
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