The liberal media has already announced that it will not be fact-checking Joe Biden, but that’s not entirely true. They will still fact-check to protect the illegitimate president, they just won’t be scrutinizing his lies. In a pair of spectacular fact-check fails, the liberal media claims that Biden hasn’t been in office for over a month and that his actual words don’t mean what he said.
Glenn Kessler is the head fact-checker at The Washington Post who announced he would not be fact-checking the Biden administration because they are too damn honest or some bullshit like that. Since that effectively puts him out of a job, nobody is more happy that Donald Trump is back. Kessler live fact-checked Trump’s CPAC speech and at one point the former President gave Biden flack for failing to reopen schools.
Kessler’s prime fact-checking skills were all over that:
Trump complaining about kids not back in schools yet. Who was president a month ago?
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) February 28, 2021
The correct answer to Kessler’s snarky question is: Joe Biden. The tweet was posted on February 28 and one month before that was January 28. Biden was inaugurated on January 20, so he was president a month ago. How is this guy a fact-checker when he doesn’t even know what basic facts are?
In another fact-check fail, The Associated Press wants you to believe Biden didn’t say minorities are too dumb to use the Internet. For some reason this was presented in wall-of-text format, so I’ve taken the liberty of breaking it up into readable paragraphs:
Biden didn’t tweet about ‘minorities not being able to use the internet’
Claim: On Feb. 18, President Joe Biden tweeted that comments on “minorities not being able to use the internet” were “taken out of context.”
The facts: A fake tweet made to appear it came from Biden’s official Twitter account @JoeBiden circulated on social media following remarks he made at a CNN town hall on Feb. 16. “My comment regarding minorities not being able to use the internet was taken out of context,” reads the phony tweet, which was shared as an image on social media. “It’s not they don’t know how to use it it’s just that they don’t know any better. Those people don’t know about computers because they lack the resources, education and their overall commitment in their communities. It’s not that they’re dumb it’s just they don’t like to do anything. Hope this clears that up.”
Multiple Facebook users shared the bogus tweet. “I am going to assume that all those minorities that voted for him are okay with how he thinks about minorities,” wrote one Facebook user who shared the false post. The tweet cannot be found on Biden’s Twitter account or ProPublica’s database Politwoops that tracks tweets deleted by public officials.
During a CNN town hall last week with journalist Anderson Cooper, Biden responded to a question about how his administration will tackle racial disparities in the COVID-19 vaccine response. There are fewer Black Americans being vaccinated than whites, AP reporting has found. Experts have cited several factors that could contribute to the emerging disparity, such as a deep-rooted mistrust of the medical establishment among Black Americans due to a history of discriminatory treatment. In his response, Biden talked about access to the vaccine being a physical obstacle for marginalized communities and said some people lack the internet access needed to get key information. “A lot of people don’t know how to register,” Biden stated. “Not everybody in the community – in the Hispanic and the African American community, particularly in rural areas that are distant and/or inner-city districts – know how to use – know how to get online to determine how to get in line for that COVID vaccination at the Walgreens or at the particular store,” Biden responded.
Those comments were widely circulated on social media. Some Facebook users then began sharing an image of the false tweet attributed to Biden.
The tweet in question obviously comes from a parody account and while it’s hilarious that The AP is fact-checking satire, the argument here is that Biden didn’t tweet that minorities are too dumb to use the Internet but he did say it.
In fact, here’s the video:
Joe Biden says black people and Hispanics don’t know how to use the Internet and can’t figure out where to get the vaccine. 🤦♂️ pic.twitter.com/nRXPPP9CZm
— Mark Dice (@MarkDice) February 17, 2021
This is not the fact-check The AP thinks it is. All they’ve done is prove the point of the parody tweet that Biden made this racist statement.
