The New York Times is signaling that they’re not wild about Joe Biden running for president again. Suddenly, they announced his statements are routinely unfactual. He’s a habitual liar. Why is this discovery emerging now?
The online headline of their Oct. 11 story was: “Biden, Storyteller in Chief, Spins Yarns That Often Unravel.” The subtitle: “President Biden has been unable to break himself of the habit of embellishing narratives to weave a political identity.”
Times reporters Michael Shear and Linda Qiu began with Biden telling survivors of Hurricane Ian that he and Jill lost most of a house to a lightning strike. That’s not true. News reports at the time described it as “a small fire” that was “contained to the kitchen.” They said this wasn’t an isolated embellishment. They noted Biden once told this story as “having had a house burn down with my wife in it.”
The Times explained, “The exaggerated biography that Mr. Biden tells includes having been a fierce civil rights activist who was repeatedly arrested. He has claimed to have been an award-winning student who earned three degrees. And last week, speaking on the hurricane-devastated island of Puerto Rico, he said he had been ‘raised in the Puerto Rican community at home, politically.'”
They said Biden has long “embraced storytelling as a way of connecting with his audience … But Mr. Biden’s folksiness can veer into folklore, with dates that don’t quite add up and details that are exaggerated or wrong, the factual edges shaved off to make them more powerful for audiences.”
But here’s the interesting part. Qiu is the paper’s designated “fact-checker.” So, if Biden is habitually spinning yarns that unravel, she must be busy with Biden checks, right? No. She hasn’t “fact-checked” Biden since Aug.20, 2021, on the Afghanistan withdrawal fiasco under an extremely mild headline: “Clarifying Biden’s Take of Evacuation.”
A peek at her archive of articles since then includes at least 14 “fact-checks” of Republicans and/or conservatives. This 14-to-1 imbalance in target selection would remind you of PolitiFact — which makes sense because that’s where Qiu worked before joining the Times.
This “fact-checker” unironically corrected Republicans on the anniversary of the Jan. 6 riot that a third of Republicans think the riot was “mainly peaceful.” That’s just as wrong as the post-George Floyd rioting of 2020 — but she also thinks it’s a terrible idea to compare them.
On March 9, 2022, Qiu wrote an article titled “Republicans Wrongly Blame Biden for Rising Gas Prices,” insisting the “primary reason” was the pandemic and “its disruptions to global supply and demand.”
On May 13, Qiu insisted (with other “fact-checkers”) that Biden couldn’t be blamed when the administration provided baby formula to illegal immigrants while citizens couldn’t find it in stores. It’s “required by a lawsuit settlement,” so the outrage can’t be blamed on Biden. She also quoted Rep. Ruben Gallego calling Republican critics “the pro-starvation caucus,” and he drew no fact-check.
On May 28, she tried to pick apart claims at the National Rifle Association convention, including Sen. Ted Cruz claiming Chicago was the “gun violence capital” of America. There’s something comical in Qiu protesting that there’s a perception that the city with the most gun murders is the gun violence capital. She insisted smaller cities had a higher murder rate per capita.
This dramatically imbalanced pattern of targeting explains why conservatives are hostile to “fact-checkers,” not to facts. Conservatives object to liberal journalists claiming we are “misleading” or “false” when liberals are just “disagreeing” and nitpicking facts placed before them.
Tim Graham is director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and executive editor of the blog NewsBusters.org. To find out more about Tim Graham and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.
The New York Times reporters/propaganda writers Michael Shear and Linda Qiu are nothing but self-serving Democrat Party’s servants.
The New York Times is signaling that they’re (the Democrat Party’s elite) not wild about Joe Biden running for president again. Suddenly, they announced his statements are routinely unfactual. He’s a habitual liar. Why is this discovery emerging now?
Why is this discovery emerging now?…….. Because the Treasonous self-serving Democrat Part’s elite have realized that even members of their own “useful idiot” Democrat Party supporters are waking up to the damage and destruction that they have created and it is time for puppet Biden to take ALL of the blame.
Biden, like Hillary spits out lies like it’s a bodily function….
I wonder if Slo Joe knows what a body function. He once claimed that another person wiped his rear. Was that a one time occurrence or a regular event.
DEMOCRATS all, treat lying as a natural bodily function, since they ALL DO IT with such frequency.
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We need to DEFUND the New York Times for wasting our money on fiction instead of facts…
That’s been common knowledge for some time.
DUH! Conservatives have known that and presented it for 40 Years, and the media basically ignored it!
DUH!
I loved how he had to drop out of his1988 run for the White House after getting caught plagiarizing a speech from Neal Kinnock, UK Labor Party Commie! One of many whoppers that the Corporate Media has conveniently forgotten.
That’s because they are No longer the media, but the dem party’s Propaganda dept.
are you calling joe a liar?
a poor white boy who was raised in the puerto rican slums of deleware who was arrested in south africa trying to free nelson madella.
that joe biden is a liar!
” capricorn1 on 2:48 pm October 12, 2022 at 2:48 pm
“…are you calling joe a liar?
TO HEG, You Say.?
” capricorn1 on 2:48 pm October 12, 2022 at 2:48 pm
“…are you calling joe a liar?
TO HEG, You Say.?” capricorn1 on 2:48 pm October 12, 2022 at 2:48 pm
“…are you calling joe a liar?
TO HEG, You Say.?… OR, ” You don’t Say.!