The liberal media wants people stop seeing them as a joke but they continually set themselves up as the punchline. PolitiFact actually fact-checked a joke made a Republican concerning the infamous Clinton Bodycount. Journalism in the Age of Trump now has these brave firefighters rushing to debunk humor and set the record straight on satire. If you don’t want people to think you’re a joke, this is the absolute wrong way to go about it.
Wisconsin GOP State Rep. Gae Magnafici tweeted this out in response to the liberal hysteria over the coronavirus.
More people have died from knowing Hillary.
— Gae Magnafici (@GMagnafici) March 7, 2020
Not only is that clearly a joke, it’s hilarious.
PolitiFact didn’t think so and sprung into action to crush this “disinformation” before it had a chance to make people hate Hillary Clinton.
It started innocuously enough with a tweet from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s Molly Beck. She shared a link to a Washington Post story that said President Donald Trump’s administration squandered time and “lost control of the coronavirus crisis.”
Former Wisconsin legislator Adam Jarchow retweeted that, adding “Crisis?” It’s a question Trump has repeatedly raised as well in minimizing the impact of the virus.
But it was a response to Jarchow that jumped off the screen.
“More people have died from knowing Hillary.”
It’s not a particularly shocking digression in the scope of, well, the internet, but the source was noteworthy. The comment came from first-term state Rep. Gae Magnafici, R-Dresser, who succeeded Jarchow representing Wisconsin’s 28th District.
Which means we need to take a closer look.
“A politician nobody has ever heard of made a joke, but she’s a Republican making fun of a democrat so we must attack with the full force of the liberal media.”
There, I fixed it for you.
PolitiFact contacted Magnafici’s office and talked to a staffer who informed them that it was a joke. It’s sad enough they didn’t know this already, but downright pathetic that they went ahead with this bold fact-checking adventure:
The facts
This won’t take long.
As of March 7, 2020, the death toll for the coronavirus was already well over 3,000 people worldwide. The U.S. death toll was at 19 at the time.
Comparing that to people who died due to any connection with Clinton is, obviously, ridiculous.
Why is this obviously ridiculous? PolitiFact doesn’t answer the question, but they did come to this conclusion:
Our ruling
Magnafici, a longtime nurse now serving as a state legislator, responded to a coronavirus post on Twitter by saying “more people have died from knowing Hillary.”
A staffer later said she was “clearly” joking.
But the claim, aside from making no logical sense, came in response to a serious post and had no accompanying context indicating it was meant as some kind of satire.
We rate the claim Pants on Fire.
Now that’s ridiculous. They fact-checked a joke and found it to be untrue. I guess this means every comedian should be censored because all they do is spread lies.
I can’t be the only one who noticed they didn’t actually fact-check this. If they were trying to prove that more people have died from the coronavirus than in the Clinton Bodycount, they absolutely should have looked at how many people in the Clinton’s orbit have ended up “suicided” or died in unexplained ways.
By my count 138 associates and acquaintances of the Clintons have been murdered, committed suicide in impossible ways, and have died mysteriously and that’s not even counting Waco, Ruby Ridge, and Benghazi. If only 19 Americans had died of the coronavirus at the time of the tweet/fact-check that means way more people have died knowing Hillary than of the disease.
Not only is Magnafici’s tweet funny, it’s also true. The best comedy does come from the truth. Suddenly her pants aren’t ablaze.
Fact-checking a joke is dumb, but this one is extra-stupid because not only does it expose PolitiFact as partisan hacks, it’s got people talking about the Clinton Bodycount again. If you don’t want people thinking Hillary is a psycho killer, this is the absolute wrong way to go about it.
