During the Donald Trump presidency, The Washington Post kept a running tally of all the times they felt he lied about something. It was entirely a list of times Trump said something liberals didn’t like and not an actual catalog of lies. Joe Biden is a prolific liar, flip-flopper, and world-class bullsh*tter but the WaPo has decided that they will not be running a similar list of lies for him because obviously he’s a democrat.
The WaPo fact-checked the shit out of Trump, challenging his every word, and determined that he told 30,573 lies during his time in office. Technically, that’s 30,573 lies from the WaPo, but they are part of the liberal media, so the truth is of no interest to them.
The WaPo claims they are unbiased and will apply the same level of scrutiny to Joe Biden:
For more than 10 years, The Fact Checker has assessed the accuracy of claims made by politicians in both parties, and that practice will continue.
Which is another WaPo lie because here’s their head fact-checker, Glenn Kessler, announcing they won’t be scrutinizing anything Biden says:
We welcome all suggestions for fact checks. Some of our fans on the right (we see you @redsteeze @FDRLST) have been urging fact checks of “Biden lies” and so we thought we’d take an opportunity to explains what we think makes for a good fact check….
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) January 26, 2021
The best fact checks are pinned on a number, uttered by a politician. We then use that number to dig into policy issues. The last president was rather loquacious, speaking or tweeting without any prior fact checking, and much of it was not worth detailed fact checking….
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) January 26, 2021
So false numbers are the criteria for fact checking? What about these?
Joe Biden Predicts 250,000 Will Die From COVID-19 This Month
Biden Campaign Cut Live Feed After Joe Claimed COVID-19 Killed 120 Million Americans
Joe Biden Says Coronavirus Has Cost America 85,000 Jobs And Millions Of Lives
Math Is Hard: Joe Biden Says His Tax Plan Will Put 720 Million Women To Work
Joe Biden Says Coronavirus Has Killed 600,000 Crazy Americans
Biden Claims 150 Million Americans Have Been Murdered By Guns Since 2007
Not a single one of these Biden numerical falsehoods was ever fact-checked by the WaPo.
We rarely fact check statements by PR people like Press Secretaries. We only did that once or twice during Trump and Obama. We have a high bar for such statements because we prefer to pin the Pinocchios on a policy-maker and hold her or her accountable for their words….
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) January 26, 2021
They spent almost as much time fact-checking Trump’s Press Secretaries as they did him. Do a search on the WaPo for Sean Spicer, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, or Kayleigh McEnany. There’s quite a lot of accusations of lying.
We also keep an eye on possible policy flip-flops and inconsistencies. Whether Biden succeeds in getting stimulus checks that amount to $2,000 is too soon to assess…
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) January 26, 2021
Biden has flip-flopped on everything he’s ever been for or against. Everything. With the $2,000 checks, it’s very simple: Biden promised $2,000 checks and then he changed that to $1,400 checks. You can easily assess that he made a promise and then broke it.
We have no plans to start a Biden false or misleading claims tracker, just as we had no plans at this point to start a Trump tracker. The constant tweeting of falsehoods forced our hand. But we have an open mind and if the need arises we will consider one….
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) January 26, 2021
The WaPo literally started fact-checking Trump the second he took office, so that’s another WaPo lie:
Over time, Trump unleashed his falsehoods with increasing frequency and ferocity, often by the scores in a single campaign speech or tweetstorm. What began as a relative trickle of misrepresentations, including 10 on his first day and five on the second, built into a torrent through Trump’s final days as he frenetically spread wild theories that the coronavirus pandemic would disappear “like a miracle” and that the presidential election had been stolen — the claim that inspired Trump supporters to attack Congress on Jan. 6 and prompted his second impeachment.
Well, now that Joe Biden is President, the coronavirus has kind of magically disappeared in that the liberal governors are lifting lockdown orders and the liberal media is no longer scaring the shit out people with it, so maybe the WaPo should take at least one “lie” away from Trump’s total.
We knew that the liberal media wasn’t going to be critical of Joe Biden but we din’t know they’d come straight out and admit to it. For his part, Biden appreciates the “69” he has going with the fake news industry/democratic party propaganda ministry:
BIDEN: “This press is the smartest group of people in town.” pic.twitter.com/TMopa6EXoK
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) January 26, 2021
“I mean this sincerely, the press is the smartest group of people in town,” said Biden.
What are the chances that the liberal media will fact-check that outrageous claim?
