In the past we’ve seen example after example of how the media “fact checkers” bend over backwards to find angles that will help them rate claims about Democrats as being at least partly false.
The latest example comes courtesy of the Associated Press and has a headline intended to bail Joe Biden out of accusations that he delivered the eulogy for “former KKK grand wizard Robert Byrd”:
Byrd had a different title when he was in the Klan so naturally Biden gets this assist: https://t.co/cmmJFBsnf7 pic.twitter.com/dXeJC0Xp37
— Doug Powers (@ThePowersThatBe) October 30, 2020
And why is it incorrect to say Biden eulogized a “former KKK grand wizard”? Because Byrd had a different job title, as the AP got to eventually:
Uh-huh…https://t.co/m4vsrNUyrz pic.twitter.com/zeFHS58cJo
— Veraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! Stop it! (@verymooch) October 30, 2020
See what they did here?
Biden did eulogize Sen. Robert C. Byrd when he died, but Byrd was not a “grand wizard” in the Ku Klux Klan.
[…]
As a young man in West Virginia, Byrd recruited members to a local KKK chapter and was elected to the post of “exalted cyclops” according to his 2005 autobiography.
Another day brings with it another example of the media twisting themselves into a pretzel to run cover for a Democrat:
This fact-check is seriously “Robert Byrd was actually an Exalted Cyclops of the KKK, not a Grand Wizard” https://t.co/xzh8t3eaOo
— Emily Zanotti (@emzanotti) October 30, 2020
AP here to tell us that Biden did not eulogize the former KKK "grand wizard" — he actually eulogized the former KKK “exalted cyclops.” Much better right? But you wouldn’t know it from the AP’s headline. https://t.co/nsSBZ9jNni
— Mary Margaret Olohan (@MaryMargOlohan) October 30, 2020
Guise. Biden didn’t eulogize a former Grand Wizard of the KKK.
What a horrible and racist accusation.
AP fact-check understands that Robert Byrd was merely and exalted cyclops of the KKK. pic.twitter.com/WOHAHkgGSX
— The Red-Headed libertarian ™ (@TRHLofficial) October 30, 2020
Fact Check: Biden did not eulogize KKK Grand Wizard….
…Because he was just a KKK "Exalted Cyclops"
.@AP is fake news. pic.twitter.com/AtLFH3yIP5
— DalisuSays (@dalisusays) October 30, 2020
The AP packaged that perfectly (for Biden) for those who didn’t read past the headline:
Here is an @AP headline that any reasonable person would think exonerates Joe Biden’s racist past. In fact the gist of the story is that KKK member Robert Byrd, who was ABSOLUTELY eulogized by Joe Biden, was an “Exalted Cyclops,” not a “Grand Wizard.” https://t.co/JTLySL5MDZ
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) October 30, 2020
And it’s completely intentional.
If Trump had delivered the eulogy for Byrd, would the AP’s headline have been the same? Yeah, we didn’t think so either.
