Posted on 05/06/2022 4:42:44 AM PDT by Kaslin
Some of these fact-mangling gaffes might be called "senior moments." At a Lockheed Martin plant in Alabama on May 3, Biden suggested we were sending missiles to Russia. "Before Russia attacked, we made sure Russia had Javelins and other weapons to strengthen their defenses so Ukraine was ready for whatever happened," Biden said midway through his speech.
Minutes later, Biden said, "Just a few days ago, the Wall Street Journal quoted a young Hungarian fighter saying, 'Without the Javelins, it would have been very hard to stop the enemy pushing ahead.'" It was a Ukrainian fighter.
Then there are times when Biden says something vicious. "This MAGA crowd is really the most extreme political organization that has existed in American history," he said in reference to abortion at the White House on May 4. Reporter Sebastian Smith suggested to press secretary Jen Psaki this "MAGA crowd" could be understood as roughly half the voters in the last presidential election.
So, are Trump voters more extreme than the KKK, the neo-Nazis, the Communist Party USA? Are they more extreme than homegrown members of ISIS? The media didn't treat this as vicious or bizarre. They reported this blather as gutsy and blunt.
ABC's Terry Moran narrated: "Biden says that the followers of former President Donald Trump will push Republicans to go further, using some of the toughest political language of his presidency." CBS's Ed O'Keefe merely said, "resident Biden is now warning of what could come." NBC's Peter Alexander touted Biden "warning the conservative court could unravel other privacy rights, like same-sex marriage and contraception."
In the same mud puddle of remarks, Biden uncorked his wildest imagination: "What happens if you have states change the laws saying that children who are LGBTQ can't be in classrooms with other children? Is that legit under the way that the decision is written?" Now the Republicans want to segregate the children by "sexual orientation"? Fact check: Pants On Fire.
Moran ran that quote, too, treating it as normal remarks instead of QAnon-level conspiracy theory. "President Biden, echoing legal scholars on the left, is warning that the leaked Supreme Court draft opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade could be just the beginning of the rollback of rights."
When Fox's Peter Doocy asked Psaki what on Earth the president meant, she said, "We've seen extreme laws that target LGBTQ families, their kids across the country. And I think what he's saying is: We don't know what they're capable of, given what they've already done to date."
Translation: Democrats can make the most preposterous predictions of what Republicans will do, and the liberal reporters and "fact-checkers" yawn. They'd rather play defense for Democrats.
PolitiFact has only fact-checked Psaki twice in 15 months. PolitiFact recently awarded Biden a "Mostly True" for claiming "the current spike in gas prices is largely the fault of Vladimir Putin." In a similar vein, Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler deemed Biden's Putin-and-gas math "defensible," so No Pinocchios.
Meanwhile, one of Facebook's favorite fact-checkers, LeadStories.com, was busy insisting "Barack 0bama Is NOT a Muslim." CNN's "Facts First" page is still obsessing over Jan. 6 and false claims about the 2020 election. AP's Fact Check went after Dinesh D'Souza's 2020-fraud film "2,000 Mules."
Studies have shown PolitiFact has checked Biden's critics almost six times as often as they fact-check the president. People who object to this tilt aren't hostile to "facts." Instead, they are hostile to the incessant liberal target selection.
Easily recognized informal fallacy known as the "Straw Man."
Inventing hypotheticals and implying that your opponents "could" commit them, in order to incite (fake) outrage.
Regards,
I kinda like the fact that their pResident actually met the composite Rosie the Riveter when he was a young fighter for justice.
You know, back when he was a truck driver and was arrested in Selma or was that South Africa when he was attending the Negro Church with Nelson Mandella, before his first wife was killed by a drunk driver.
Note to Deep State: I don’t think your POTATUS is going to make his USE BY date...
He’s dangerous... And still allowed to stay.
He doesn’t know what he’s doing.. And still allowed to stay.
I presume you all know Obama is in charge, and that’s OK.
You idiots letting this happen are anti America and pro politicians...
He’s long expired.
Attacking “this conservative court” is a slippery slope for addled Biden, as most of them are fellow Catholics. Exceptions are the two Jewish members and 1 who was raised Catholic, educated at Catholic schools, then changed to Episcopalian after marriage.
sometimes he may speak the truth
like when? give an example.
I'll tell you!
It's like when I call down to the WH kitchen at night and find out there is no more of my favorite pudding available!
We’ve assembled the most comprehensive election fraud apparatus ever ...
Was that good enough?
His brain, clearly, but Deep State doesn’t care about that as long as BiteMe doesn’t assume room temperature.
I wonder sometimes what it must be like to be the teleprompter operator, furiously typing corrections in real time.
I think the deep state goal is for him to make it until at least January 21, 2023 so his designated successor could be a useful puppet until January 20, 2033.
Sensible fact checking would be useful. The current media is hostile to that.
So, are Trump voters more extreme than the KKK, the neo-Nazis, the Communist Party USA? Are they more extreme than homegrown members of ISIS? The media didn't treat this as vicious or bizarre. They reported this blather as gutsy and blunt.
If we were anything like what you depict, Joe, a lot of your people would be having "accidents", waking up dead or simply disappearing. As would your enablers in the so-called media. Let's hope you don't force us to that.
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