'More Pulitzer worthy fact checking': Reuters declares video was edited and Biden did not really walk away during wife Jill's speech after hearing ice cream truck music



Reuters has published a fact-check article about a video that indicates President Joe Biden wandered away because of an ice cream truck while first lady Jill Biden was speaking at a podium.

The outlet linked to a video in which the president walks off camera as tinkling ice cream truck music plays. Reuters also linked to an undoctored video on C-SPAN, which lo and behold, does not include the ice cream truck music — the video is from when the president and the first lady spoke at Brookland Middle School in Washington, D.C., last year.

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"At around the 01:35 mark, Biden can be seen walking out of frame and returning a few seconds later, but no ice cream truck can be seen in the video nor can any music be heard," Reuters reported regarding the unaltered footage.

The outlet declared that the "video has been digitally edited to include ice cream truck music as U.S. President Joe Biden walked away momentarily during first lady Jill Biden's speech."

Another version of the spoof video features an ice cream truck that has been inserted into the background of the video as Biden walks away.

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Social media users piled on Reuters for publishing the fact-check piece.

"Thanks, Reuters. I never would have realized that this joke meme wasn't real without your guidance," tweeted Mike LaChance, who writes for Legal Insurrection.

"@ReutersFacts, another joke of an organization, fact-checked a joke video. We have truly stepped into idiocracy at many levels now," someone else tweeted.

\u201c.@ReutersFacts, another joke of an organization, fact-checked a joke video. We have truly stepped into idiocracy at many levels now.\u201d
— JimTheTired (@JimTheTired) 1659374819

"The fact they thought they had to fact check this is more hilarious than the video itself," another tweet declared.

"More Pulitzer worthy fact checking," someone else tweeted.

\u201cMore Pulitzer worthy fact checking.\u201d
— Alex VanNess (@Alex VanNess) 1659374137

Left-wing figure Seth Abramson indicated that the majority of Republican voters are "stupid."

"How do I know Republicans have nothing on Biden? Because every day their pimple-faced, basement-dwelling trolls vomit up some fake media to try to establish a narrative of foolishness and incompetence that reality doesn’t bear out. If they had *anything*, they’d stick to reality," Abramson tweeted.

In another tweet, he declared that "the reason manipulated media almost always comes from the right is because far-right trolls believe Republican voters are stupid. And the reason Republican voters repeatedly *fall* for manipulated media is that the overwhelming majority are—apparently—stupid."

\u201cHow do I know Republicans have nothing on Biden? Because every day their pimple-faced, basement-dwelling trolls vomit up some fake media to try to establish a narrative of foolishness and incompetence that reality doesn\u2019t bear out. If they had *anything*, they\u2019d stick to reality.\u201d
— Seth Abramson (@Seth Abramson) 1659366463


\u201cRelated observation: the reason manipulated media almost always comes from the right is because far-right trolls believe Republican voters are stupid. And the reason Republican voters repeatedly *fall* for manipulated media is that the overwhelming majority are\u2014apparently\u2014stupid.\u201d
— Seth Abramson (@Seth Abramson) 1659366463

Ohio father buys ice cream truck to create jobs for his two adult children with Down Syndrome, and it turns into something much sweeter



Mary Kate Wegener told her father, "I wanna work with Papa." Mary Kate's dad, Joel Wegener, made his daughter's request a reality. The Ohio dad purchased an ice cream truck so that his two adult children with Down Syndrome could have the opportunity to work and develop skills to help them in the future.

"It was hard to find something that she could really plug into and do," Wegener told Spectrum News 1. "So when I started mulling over this, it was such a natural to pull them both in."

"Then once we started talking about this ice cream business, it was just a natural to bring her in and also bring Josh in," Wegener stated.

Wegener believed the Special Neat Treats ice cream truck would provide an opportunity to teach valuable work and life lessons to his children – Mary Kate, 21, and Josh, 18.

"Some social skills as well as some math skills, and just the whole interaction is just really positive for them," Wegener said.

The Special Neat Treats name was thought up by mom Freida, as a tribute to those with special needs.

But Wegener hopes that the Special Neat Treats ice cream truck inspires special needs individuals to aspire to do great things.

"Hopefully it's an encouragement to other people that have special needs kids that there is so much that they can do," he said. "But, there's so much that they can do and it gives them so much self-worth to be a part of something."

Wegener also believes that the family business will help bring awareness about people with Down Syndrome to the community.

"No matter what your family situation is or the dynamics of what's going on, one thing is there's hope and there's joy," Wegener told WXIX-TV. "And there's some normality to life and we're going to do that through this means of sharing an ice cream with you. As much as possible, we want to get out there and share the joy and share hope."

"On a daily basis we connect with people that care so much about special needs, or they have their own story and to be able to sit in this truck, look out the window and see kids coming screaming and parents bringing their kids," Wegener explained. "Almost every time I go out I find a family with special needs or with something some connections, it's just been an unbelievable journey."

"I see the magic of it," Wegener said. "I see this as being every summer for a long time. I'm not getting any younger, but I feel younger when I'm out here with the kids giving them ice cream."

"Being able to work with these little rascals is fun too," Wegener added. "Never a dull moment."

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