Posted on 10/12/2022 11:46:27 AM PDT by Red Badger
The New York Times is signaling that they’re not wild about Joe Biden running for president again. Suddenly, they announced his statements are routinely un-factual. He's a habitual liar. Why is this discovery emerging now?
The online headline of their October 11 story was: “Biden, Storyteller in Chief, Spins Yarns That Often Unravel: President Biden has been unable to break himself of the habit of embellishing narratives to weave a political identity.”
Times reporters Michael Shear and Linda Qiu began with Biden telling survivors of Hurricane Ian that he and Jill lost most of a house to a lightning strike. That’s not true. News reports at the time described it as “a small fire that was contained to the kitchen” They said this wasn’t an isolated embellishment. They noted Biden once told this story as “having had a house burn down with my wife in it.”
The Times explained “The exaggerated biography that Mr. Biden tells includes having been a fierce civil rights activist who was repeatedly arrested. He has claimed to have been an award-winning student who earned three degrees. And last week, speaking on the hurricane-devastated island of Puerto Rico, he said he had been ‘raised in the Puerto Rican community at home, politically.’”
They said Biden has long “embraced storytelling as a way of connecting with his audience....But Mr. Biden’s folksiness can veer into folklore, with dates that don’t quite add up and details that are exaggerated or wrong, the factual edges shaved off to make them more powerful for audiences.”
But here’s the interesting part. Linda Qiu is the paper’s designated “fact checker.” So if Biden is habitually spinning yarns that unravel, she must be busy with Biden checks, right? No. She hasn’t “fact checked” Biden since August 20, 2021 on the Afghanistan withdrawal fiasco under an extremely mild headline: “Clarifying Biden’s Take of Evacuation.”
A peek at her archive of articles since then includes at least 14 fact checks of Republicans and/or conservatives. This 14-to-1 imbalance in target selection would remind you of PolitiFact – which makes sense, because that's where Qiu worked before joining the Times.
This "fact checker" un-ironically corrected Republicans on the anniversary of the January 6 riot, that a third of Republicans think the riot was “mainly peaceful.” That’s just as wrong as the post-George Floyd rioting of 2020 – but she also thinks it’s a terrible idea to compare them.
On March 9, 2022, Qiu wrote an article titled “Republicans Wrongly Blame Biden for Rising Gas Prices,” insisting the “primary reason” was the pandemic and “its disruptions to global supply and demand.”
On May 13, Qiu insisted (with other “fact checkers”) that Biden couldn’t be blamed when the administration provided baby formula to illegal immigrants while citizens couldn’t find it in stores. It’s “required by a lawsuit settlement,” so the outrage can’t be blamed on Biden. She also quoted Rep. Ruben Gallego calling Republican critics “the pro-starvation caucus,” and he drew no fact check.
On May 28, she tried to pick apart claims at the NRA convention, including Sen. Ted Cruz claiming Chicago was the “murder capital” of America. There’s something comical in Qiu protesting that “there’s a perception that the city with the most gun murders is the gun violence capital.” She insisted smaller cities had a higher murder rate, per capita.
This dramatically imbalanced pattern of targeting explains why conservatives are hostile to “fact checkers,” not to facts. Conservatives object to liberal journalists claiming we are “misleading” or “false” when liberals are just “disagreeing” and nitpicking facts placed before them.
It took them long enough.
welcome to reality, morons.
“Biden, Storyteller in Chief, Spins Yarns That Often Unravel”
Often? Nearly always. Biden has been that way for decades. Maybe he has gotten worse of late, but he has always been a liar and a crook. That’s in addition to being the best person that Lindsey Graham has ever known or whatever that weirdo said.
They’re greasing the ramp for his removal.
They already have the next person in mind. Watch for puff pieces and praise of someone young smart fresh.
The Times still hasn’t repudiated Walter Duranty and that was the 1930’s
Newsome....................
“But Trump isn’t in the White House, is he?”
Whenever I see the label “Fact Checker” my brain interprets it as “Liberal Liar”
They are getting ready. The only question is will the corrupt POS make it to 24?
maybe, but then again maybe not. Dementia doesn't improve.
I two months his “Use By Date” expires and a new moron Marxist is giggling in the ante room.
“They’re greasing the ramp for his removal.”
Exactly!
They know he doesn’t have a snowflake’s chance in hell in ‘24.
“They already have the next person in mind. Watch for puff pieces and praise of someone young smart fresh.”
Yep.
Gavin Newsom WHO I live under right now, HOWEVER the rest of the country doesn’t know this PRETTY BOY the way we do! This guy is WORSE than Biden BECAUSE he actually knows what the hell he is doing u lime Biden!! The beautiful state of CA. has become a 3rd world HELL HOLE!!!
U lime = unlike OOPS
A paper on the challenges faced by fact checkers from eeeeevil conservatives begins with the assertion that Trump is calling "real news" (that all ... ALL ... turned out to be fake) as fake news.
And then there's this (remember, this is 2017):
“The best possible situation for the fact-checker is when you have a divided government,” Kessler said. “When you had a Democratic president and a Republican Congress, it was equal. There were days, weeks, we’d go like 14-straight fact-checks of Democrats. And then 14-straight fact-checks of Republicans.” Now his coverage is dominated by Trump and other Republican leaders. “I don’t know what to do,” Kessler said. “We really just like to focus on what’s in the news and who’s saying things that are interesting and worthy of fact-checking. But this year is really bad.”
Oh yeah, that whole "we check the party in power the most" was also a lie from the "fact checkers". And I haven't run the numbers but I'd bet the 14 checks on dems were all "true" or "mostly true" which all of the ones on republican were "five Pinocchio's". But either way, we see it clearly that dems have both sides of Congress and the Presidency and they are getting NO fact checks.
Well I know now that I certainly feel better about media bias.
Rest assured that Biden and his pet flying communist monkeys are winning the Ukraine war. /sarc
Right, if the drugs work they will buy up to 3 years of relative normalcy at best. My guess is they have Biden on a cocktail of drugs to keep the car on the road but l think the clock is running out.
Ejecton date jan 21 2023
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