When it comes to fact-checking President Joe Biden, the Washington Post Fact Checker has been … well, let’s just say it’s been inconsistent. There have been a handful of times when Glenn Kessler et al. have done their jobs, but most of the time, they slacked off and let Biden off the hook for the most brazen and egregious of lies. Did they suddenly realize that people might’ve been paying attention all this time? Is that why Kessler is doing this today?
New #FactChecker –> A Bottomless Pinocchio for Biden — and other recent gaffes https://t.co/aX6n1epKsI
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) November 7, 2022
Kessler awarded Biden a “Bottomless Pinocchio” for Biden’s lie about traveling 17,000 miles with Chinese President Xi Jinping:
This is an old claim we had debunked shortly after Biden took office, giving him Three Pinocchios. There is no evidence Biden traveled that much with Xi, the president of China — and even if we added up the miles Biden flew to see Xi, it still did not total 17,000 miles. The White House could not offer an explanation for that number either.
But it’s noteworthy because, despite our fact check and a White House admission that Biden’s line of “traveling with” Xi was not accurate, with this comment, Biden had made the claim 20 times during his presidency. (He then said it a 21st time a few hours later, in another speech, with a slight twist: “… when I traveled 17-, 18,000 miles with him.”) Biden is so fond of this bogus statistic that he even mentioned it during high-profile speeches such as a joint session of Congress and a commencement address.
There are several other Biden lies featured in Kessler’s article (of course, Kessler can’t quite bring himself to award Bottomless Pinocchios to those, but whatever).
This kind of article should have been written weekly, all year. https://t.co/VNPkKwFn4g
— Pradheep J. Shanker (@Neoavatara) November 7, 2022
It should have been written weekly, all year, for the past almost-two years … but it wasn’t.
They just noticed..🤡👉 A Bottomless Pinocchio for Biden — and other recent gaffes https://t.co/Pwcq8Z5oQ0
— Jon Nicosia (@NewsPolitics) November 7, 2022
Better late than never?
The level of Now-It-Can-Be-Toldism over the last few days is just incredible. I guess the dam burst early when instead of hitting on the economy and crime he just went out there and said democracy was on the ballot and deer don't wear kevlar.https://t.co/A3uvADiSWK
— Noam Blum (@neontaster) November 7, 2022
why did you and dan dale wait until a week before the election –2 years into the biden presidency– to do this?
— Ryan (@alwaysonoffense) November 7, 2022
Oh, yeah. We should probably mention that CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale did something very similar:
Biden’s closing midterms pitch has included false and misleading claims — about gas prices, Social Security, the debt and deficit, his student loans plan, his tax policies and Trump’s, and other subjects. Here’s a fact check roundup: https://t.co/oP9Yqgj5Eq
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) November 5, 2022
November 5. The midterm election are tomorrow, November 8.
CNN, NY Times and now WaPo all going after Biden's lies within 48 hours of each other. Total coincidence of course. 🙄https://t.co/LSZIOhXaXo
— Doug Powers (@ThePowersThatBe) November 7, 2022
So is it just a coincidence that CNN and WaPo fact-checkers finally decided to confront the consistent and shameless lying from this admin a few days before Dems are set to lose control…
I wrote about the Baghdad Biden tendency repeatedly I’ve the last few months. It isn’t new. https://t.co/9ofEVkRUUs
— AG (@AGHamilton29) November 7, 2022
CNN, NYT, and WaPo all basically run with the same article within days of each other. All citing falsehoods from weeks ago and earlier. pic.twitter.com/14qK51Z9wx
— AG (@AGHamilton29) November 7, 2022
Fascinating!
They will then point to these few, late minute articles as evidence that they were doing their jobs.
— Pradheep J. Shanker (@Neoavatara) November 7, 2022
Oh, for sure. That’s exactly what they’ll do. And we won’t buy it.
There is always a point, when elections are essentially baked in, that the media tries to repair their reputation after campaigning hard for Democrats for months. https://t.co/aXpAZimCVX
— Fuzzy Chimp 🇺🇸 (@fuzzychimpcom) November 7, 2022
Props to them for trying, but they’ve made way too many mistakes for us to trust them.
This is embarrassing, and not for Biden.
— Michael Dobozy (@dobozysaurus) November 7, 2022
Nice of you to wait 2 years. This is why no one trusts the media.
You all irrevocably broke it.— JayJay McMaster, CD (@tantrumblue1) November 7, 2022
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