Fact-checking Joe Biden because the media can’t



Pat Gray has noticed that the media loves to fact-check, but it refuses to use or is incapable of using those fact-check powers on Joe Biden.

So, Gray has decided to do one of the media's favorite jobs for it.

Biden recently spoke at a campaign event in California where he addressed gun violence and the NRA, which he said wields “overwhelming power.”

Biden added that “the NRA is the only outfit in the nation that we cannot sue as an institution.”

“Where does he get that?” Gray asks, continuing, “he’s said that before. Where is he getting that? He just pulls it out of his rectal cavity.”

“It is not true. In fact, there’s an active lawsuit in New York against the NRA, right now,” Gray adds.

According to Gray, Biden also told Americans that the Second Amendment explicitly states that you can’t own any weapon you want.

“Keith, can you call up the Second Amendment,” Gray asks, “maybe we'll even read it and see if we’ve missed the part where it explicitly states we can’t own any weapon we want.”

Keith pulls out a copy of the Constitution and reads, “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed,” he continues.

Biden also claimed to be a “Second-Amendment guy” at the campaign event.

“If you have to say ‘I’m a Second-Amendment guy,’” Keith laughs, “you’re not a Second-Amendment guy.”

Biden’s claims have gotten so outlandish that even the Washington Post is questioning his statements.

Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler said, “We have no idea where he conjured up this notion about a ban on canon ownership in the early days of the Republic, but he needs to stop making this claim.”

“Thank you, Glen Kessler, thank you,” Gray says.


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Washington Post discontinues presidential fact-check database after 100 days of Biden. It ran the full 4 years of Trump's presidency.



The Washington Post has discontinued its presidential fact-check database — which was launched during former President Donald Trump's tenure — after only 100 days into President Joe Biden's term.

What are the details?

In a tweet thread Monday, fact-check editor Glenn Kessler announced that while he and his team will continue to "rigorously" fact-check Biden, they will no longer maintain a database like they did under Trump.

Kessler cited the overwhelming workload as the reason for the change, even while noting that monitoring Biden's statements has proven to be less work.

"Here's the Biden database — which we do not plan to extend beyond 100 days," Kessler tweeted. "I have learned my lesson."

"'Learned my lesson' means that who knows what the next four years will bring. We have fact-checked Biden rigorously and will continue to do so. Trump at 500 claims/100 days was manageable; 8,000+ was not," he added.

"Maintaining the Trump database over four years required about 400 additional 8-hour days over four years beyond our regular jobs for three people," Kessler explained. "Biden is off to a relatively slow start but who knows what will happen. We will keep doing fact checks, just not a database."

What else?

Commenters on Twitter couldn't help but point out the Post's blatant double standard. Several noted how rich it is that the left-leaning media organization found the time and energy to fact-check Trump's every statement during all four years of his presidency, but are now throwing in the towel after a few months of Biden.

"The Biden presidency is over. Rest easy," media critic Stephen L. Miller quipped. "What an incredible 100 days of presidency."

"Come on, man," one commenter wrote. "Go ahead and enjoy your 4-year vacation. Thanks for confirming your bias."

"4 year vacation because blue team," another wrote.

"Hooray standards!" another Twitter user joked. "If they didn't come in double, how would y'all operate?!"

One commenter noted that no such database was in operation under former Democratic President Barack Obama, either, so Kessler should have been rested.

"I would have thought the 8 prostrate years before Trump would have left you sufficiently rested," he said.

Anything else?

In the 100 days analysis of Biden, Kessler assessed that the new president made 67 "false or misleading statements" in comparison to Trump's 511.

He noted, however, that "Biden's relatively limited number of falsehoods is a function, at least in part, of the fact that his public appearances consist mostly of prepared texts vetted by his staff. He devotes little time to social media, in contrast to his Twitter-obsessed predecessor, and rarely faces reporters or speaks off the cuff."

The Post's decision to shut down its presidential database comes just days after Kessler was widely panned for an egregious fact-check on South Carolina Republican Sen. Tim Scott's family history.

Biden denied calling Trump 'xenophobic' over his coronavirus response at the debate — not only did he say it, he tweeted it too



Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden vehemently denied at the final debate that he called President Donald Trump "xenophobic" over his coronavirus response, but his own words undermine the claim.

The two candidates were battling it out on Thursday over the government's response to the pandemic under the direction of Trump when the president pummeled Biden with his previous accusations. The term "xenophobia" refers to a fear of strangers and foreigners that can sometimes include bigotry and hatred of the same.

"When I closed and banned China from coming in, heavily infected, and then ultimately Europe, but China was in January, months later he was saying I was xenophobic, I did it too soon. Now he's saying I should have, I should have, you know, moved quicker," said Trump.

"But he didn't move quicker, he was months behind me, many months behind me!" he added.

"My response is he is xenophobic, but not because he shut down travel to China," replied Biden.

Biden went on to criticize the comments from the president early in the pandemic downplaying the threat from the coronavirus, and Trump responded by mocking Biden for being "in a basement."

Here's the tweet

Biden specifically used the word "xenophobic" in a tweet criticizing the president for his coronavirus response the day after the announcement that they would be banning travelers from China.

We are in the midst of a crisis with the coronavirus. We need to lead the way with science — not Donald Trump’s rec… https://t.co/n8vyHlTLL1
— Joe Biden (@Joe Biden)1580594460.0

"We are in the midst of a crisis with the coronavirus. We need to lead the way with science — not Donald Trump's record of hysteria, xenophobia, and fear-mongering. He is the worst possible person to lead our country through a global health emergency."

Here are his words

Not only did he tweet about it but Biden specifically called out Trump publicly the day of the announcement of the China ban, and cited his "xenophobia," to an audience of supporters.

"This is no time for Donald Trump's record of hysteria and xenophobia, hysterical xenophobia, and fearmongering to lead the way instead of science," said Biden.

Months later, when Biden backed the China ban, his campaign denied calling that policy xenophobic.

Kate Bedingford, a spokesperson for the Biden campaign, said at the time that the "reference to xenophobia was about Trump's long record of scapegoating others at a time when the virus was emerging from China," and not the China ban.

Here's the video of the xenophobic interaction:

Biden: Trump 'Did Virtually Nothing' in Response to Coronavirus | NowThiswww.youtube.com