NYT's thorough and serious fact-check of Biden's SOTU concludes there were 'no outright falsehoods'

Sarah D | 12:53 PM on February 08, 2023

As we told you earlier, the New York Post took an in-depth fact-checking dive into Joe Biden’s State of the Union address and found that the speech “set new records for dishonesty and emptiness.”

Today's cover: Biden’s State of the Union set new records for dishonesty and emptiness https://t.co/dJcLWWJXMc pic.twitter.com/PAbFGlbWp4

— New York Post (@nypost) February 8, 2023

Seems like a pretty fair assessment to us given the speech we were watching.

Now, contrast that with this “fact-checking” effort from the New York Times:

Just amazing work from The NY Times "fact check"

Biden didn't get anything wrong… he simply exaggerated the facts and ignored context pic.twitter.com/2RihBEGVjS

— Cabot Phillips (@cabot_phillips) February 8, 2023

Specifically, the New York Times’ “fact-checking” analysis categorizes Biden’s statements during the State of the Union address in one of the following ways: “This needs context” (which was by far the most popular finding); “This is misleading (there was only one of those); “This lacks evidence (that also appeared only once); and, of course, “True,” which was assigned to Biden’s statements that “Food inflation is coming down” and “We united NATO. We built a global coalition,” both of which lack evidence, to say the very least.