I reported a couple of weeks ago on PolitiFact's Lie of the Year for 2024. The honor went to Donald Trump and J.D. Vance for saying that Haitian migrants were eating people's pets in Springfield, Ohio, a town of 60,000 which had 20,000 Haitian immigrants dropped on it. PBS NewsHour, "ranked the most credible and objective TV news show" according to its X bio, dedicated five and a half minutes to the story, even bringing on Katie Sanders from PolitiFact for an interview.
The team at the fact-checking organization @PolitiFact investigated hundreds of claims made this year during the campaign cycle to separate fact from fiction. But one comment stood out as PolitiFact’s 2024 “Lie of the Year.”@AliRogin spoke with @KatieLSanders for more. pic.twitter.com/M75R5DY0Oc
— PBS News (@NewsHour) December 25, 2024
As I said in my earlier post, a lot of people had an alternative Lie of the Year: This version of Joe Biden is the best version of Biden we've ever seen and behind closed doors, he's sharp as a tack. Alejandro Mayorkas said he had trouble preparing for meetings with Biden because Biden was so probing and inquisitive. (Fox News reported in September that Biden had convened his cabinet for the first time in nearly a year.)
The whole eating pets thing was stupid and I cringed through most of it, but PBS NewsHour is very concerned with the effect the story had on the town of Springfield as well as the election. Did Trump win the election because he said immigrants were eating cats?
I have to agree with others that the Lie of the Year was that Biden's mental acuity was perfectly fine. But the DNC dropped him like a hot rock when it was clear he wasn't going to beat Trump. That debate was just a bad night, Biden explained to supporters the next day.
(Speaking of debates, someone nominated Kamala Harris for claiming that no combat troops were stationed overseas.)
That’s not exactly what Vance did though, and the claim wasn’t something he made up, it was a claim made by residents. What happening here is Katie is doing exactly what she’s telling us JD did. I would say it’s projection, except it’s obviously deliberate.
— Kells (@kellls303) December 26, 2024
That's only because covering up for Biden's cognitive incapacity as president is the lie of the century (and it's only 2024)
— Knowbody (@PertectedSpeech) December 26, 2024
Biden is the best he has ever been.
— Marge (@Marge1902) December 26, 2024
You can't get defunded fast enough. You're just Democrat propaganda if you can't look at yourself and other media can't verify for Biden's dementia as the LOTY.
— Juanito Bandito (@bandito_juanito) December 26, 2024
The lie of the year was the claim Biden didn’t have cognitive issues related to dementia
— Joseph-99conserv. (@jos84234) December 26, 2024
These are the same "fact-checkers" who assured us that Joe is sharp as a tack.
— Gulag Inmate (Слава Америке!) 🇺🇸 (@MIGHTY_MIDDLE) December 26, 2024
Here are a couple of other candidates for Lie of the Year:
The "Lie of the Year" was "Trump calls for the execution of Liz Chaney."
— Jerry Levy (@JerryLe00723434) December 26, 2024
Yes, a firing squad. And how about …
"I will not pardon Hunter!"?
— James Costopoulos (@JamesCostopoul1) December 26, 2024
PBS and PolitiFact have a cozy little relationship, don't they? It would be a shame if they were defunded.
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