As Twitchy reported earlier, President Joe Biden was in Massachusetts Wednesday talking about our climate emergency. Biden said that his mother using windshield wipers to “get literally the oil slick off the window” of their car is “why I and so damn many other people have cancer.” Since this is Biden we’re talking about, the fact-checkers ran toward the fire, with the Washington Post’s Glenn Kessler saying within the hour that RNC Research was being misleading (by quoting the president verbatim). “Before he became president, he’d had non-melanoma skin cancers removed,” Kessler noted. This, however, didn’t explain Biden saying “I have cancer” or how one gets skin cancer from oil.
Kessler’s fact-check was a pretty pitiful excuse to cover for the president, so it’s no surprise that Deputy Press Secretary Andrew Bates retweeted it.
This is what the President was referring to. https://t.co/8F0NGTei6f
— Andrew Bates (@AndrewJBates46) July 20, 2022
I’m sorry this is happening to you.
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) July 20, 2022
Where's the section on Delaware oil slicks giving him cancer?
— David Harsanyi (@davidharsanyi) July 20, 2022
It was down wind!
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) July 20, 2022
Did the windshield wipers give him the cancer? https://t.co/UnE3J3Saq2
— jimtreacher.substack.com (@jtLOL) July 20, 2022
How’s your day going, Andrew? Résumé in shape yet?
— Herr Dr. Samaritan, AB, AB, MA, JD, PhD ABD (@DgFontanella) July 20, 2022
Please cite an article about these oil slicked windows that caused cancer in Delaware. It sounds serious.
— JCrow (@jlc225) July 20, 2022
What’s the science on oil slicks on windshields giving people non-melanoma skin cancers?
— Phyliss Walker (@pdkwalk) July 20, 2022
Are you officially saying he got skin cancer from oil on his windshield?
— His Eminence 👑 (@his_eminence_j) July 20, 2022
How was non-melanoma skin cancer caused by wiping oil slicks off a windshield, Andrew? Is oil on windshields a risk the CDC needs to warn us about, or has synthetic oil solved that problem?
— Aldous Huxley's Ghost™ (@AF632) July 20, 2022
Clean up on aisle 7…
— Ricky Clarke III (@RickyClarkeIII) July 20, 2022
Also Andrew: Why don't people trust us?
— Somewhere_Out_There (@Public_Name_Req) July 20, 2022
If the sitting president of the United States doesn't have cancer, that's a relief. But there's still the question of why he said he does. https://t.co/p9roA67MKE
— jimtreacher.substack.com (@jtLOL) July 20, 2022
The White House communications staff knows that the Washington Post has their backs.
Related:
WaPo fact-checker comes to the rescue after RNC Research quotes Biden verbatim https://t.co/KWSGwY9D6m
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) July 20, 2022
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