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Misleading GOP videos of Biden are going viral. The fact-checks have trouble keeping up.
NBC News | Comcast ^ | June 17, 2024 | By Alex Seitz-Wald (D-NBC)

Posted on 06/18/2024 4:33:31 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

More Americans may think President Joe Biden tried to sit on a nonexistent chair the other day than know the boring truth that there was, in fact, a chair.

The chair-that-was-there was just one of many quick video clips the conservative media ecosystem willed into virality over the past two weeks, leaving fact-checkers and Biden’s team with little chance to catch up.

The Republican National Committee, major conservative media outlets and right-wing influencers have succeeded in blasting out videos that they claim show “proof” of Biden’s wandering off, freezing up or even filling his pants with a substance commonly represented by a brown swirl emoji.

Independent fact-checkers and the Biden campaign have pointed out that the videos, while they are un-doctored by artificial intelligence, tend to crumble under even basic scrutiny, such as when the moments are viewed in context or from wider camera angles.

“Fresh off being fact checked by at least 6 mainstream outlets for lying about President Biden with cheap fakes, Rupert Murdoch’s sad little super PAC, the New York Post, is back to disrespecting its readers and itself once again,” White House spokesperson Andrew Bates said in a statement

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: alexseitzwald; election2024; journalism; lyiingeyes; media; press; rejectevidenceofeyes; yourlyingeyes
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

ChiComcast.


21 posted on 06/18/2024 5:00:33 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

MSM=cheap fake=state media


22 posted on 06/18/2024 5:04:52 AM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (Time to throw them out of the Temple...again)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If I wanted to watch misleading videos, I would watch NBC news.


23 posted on 06/18/2024 5:05:35 AM PDT by ChessExpert (Required for informed consent: "We have a new, experimental vaccine.")
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To: brookwood

51 Video Experts from the White House Division of Fake Videos rate the videos as “Fake”, saying they have “all the classic earmarks of Russian Fake Videos” and that the experts are “deeply suspicious that Russian Intelligence may have played a role in the production of these Fake Videos”, noting that “Such an operation would be consistent with some of the key methods Russia has used in its now
multi-year operation to interfere in our democracy”. The experts also noted that the people who videotaped Biden falling off his bicycle last year are being investigated by the FBI to determine what connections they have to Russian Intelligence agents.
**sarcasm alert**


24 posted on 06/18/2024 5:05:45 AM PDT by brookwood (Fossil Fuels Are Climate-Affirming)
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To: Tuxedo

In the full footage video that was taken from a different angle, there are chairs there, but the MSM has fallen into a trap. They say Biden is ok because there are chairs, but the real point is, is that Biden wants to sit down at an inappropriate time in the ceremony.

He can’t stay on his feet very long, he’s too weak to stand or pay attention for as long as he should. When he does stay standing, he’s frozen, and his mental impairments are easily visible.

This same media tore into Ronald Reagan when he began slipping down the path of aging, but they prop up the corrupt and evil Joe Biden.


25 posted on 06/18/2024 5:07:09 AM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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To: Tuxedo

It was 6’ behind him!


26 posted on 06/18/2024 5:08:17 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (" Life is hard!" Tom Brady)
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To: Mr. K

So when Biden tried to shake hands with nobody there there was really somebody there we just could not see?


27 posted on 06/18/2024 5:08:52 AM PDT by carcraft (Pray for our Country)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

NBC covering for Biden, like TASS covered for the stroked-out Leonid Brezhnev.


28 posted on 06/18/2024 5:10:03 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”


29 posted on 06/18/2024 5:10:51 AM PDT by IamConservative (I was nervous like the third chimp in line for the Ark after the rain started.)
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To: ChessExpert

30 posted on 06/18/2024 5:12:19 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: FamiliarFace
"The chair-that-was-there was just one of many quick video clips the conservative media ecosystem willed into virality"
Interesting that this is NBC not MSNBC. Why does NBC use the snarky description "the conservative media ecosystem" in an manner clearly indicating that they are not part of this "ecosystem"? They are tipping their hand and admitting that they are NOT conservative. You don't have to be a conservative to see a frail old man for what he is.
31 posted on 06/18/2024 5:12:37 AM PDT by brookwood (Fossil Fuels Are Climate-Affirming)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I seriously want to know what kind of freaking morons believe these lying propagandists anymore?


32 posted on 06/18/2024 5:13:16 AM PDT by mikelets456
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

According to Snopes, the following memes are true, but somehow misleading:

With the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, Republicans ended slavery.

With the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, Republicans granted former slaves US Citizenship.

With the 15th Amendment to the Constitution, Republicans gave former slaves the right to vote.


33 posted on 06/18/2024 5:13:26 AM PDT by ChessExpert (Required for informed consent: "We have a new, experimental vaccine.")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Swirling emoji. Yukyukyuk.

Meaning lol not the other yukyukyuk


34 posted on 06/18/2024 5:21:02 AM PDT by eartick (Stupidity is expecting the government that broke itself to go out and fix itself. Texan for TEXIT)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The left sure hates it when both sides play by the same rules. They started it.

EC


35 posted on 06/18/2024 5:26:03 AM PDT by Ex-Con777
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To: dfwgator

Ap news is in the tank too
https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-biden-invisible-chair-normandy-634944982428


36 posted on 06/18/2024 5:29:30 AM PDT by griswold3 (Truth, Beauty and Goodness. )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I guess the “hairy legs” speech was also a fake as well?


37 posted on 06/18/2024 5:30:33 AM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Like the Serbian “kid behind the fence “ news story, the exploding pinto, the trump kids in cages video - actually taken during Obama’s term or…

Dan Rather’s “fake, but accurate” GW Bush letter?

Sheese


38 posted on 06/18/2024 5:32:34 AM PDT by Triple (Socialism denies people the right to the fruits of their labor, and is as abhorrent as slavery)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

>> The Republican National Committee, major conservative media outlets and right-wing influencers have succeeded...

That right there is beautiful music to my ears! Go forth and SUCCEED at whatever you set your hand to, all you farfarfar-right MAGA Christian Nationalist gun ‘n bible clinging magnificent bastids!

Progressive tears are sweet...


39 posted on 06/18/2024 5:38:51 AM PDT by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
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To: griswold3

PS. You can see Jill telling Joe to stand up


40 posted on 06/18/2024 5:41:09 AM PDT by griswold3 (Truth, Beauty and Goodness. )
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