{"id":1217913,"date":"2022-01-15T11:35:05","date_gmt":"2022-01-15T16:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1217913"},"modified":"2022-01-15T11:35:13","modified_gmt":"2022-01-15T16:35:13","slug":"graham-no-fact-checking-for-bidens-atlanta-smears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/graham-no-fact-checking-for-bidens-atlanta-smears\/","title":{"rendered":"GRAHAM: No Fact-Checking For Biden\u2019s Atlanta Smears"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgraham-no-fact-checking-for-bidens-atlanta-smears%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1217913&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>One of the most frustrating things about \u201cfact-checkers\u201d is how they leap on conservative rhetoric against Democrats as \u201cfalse\u201d or \u201cmissing context\u201d but give Democrats a pass to say the wildest, nastiest things about conservatives.<\/p>\n<p>For example, PolitiFact pounced on Georgia Sen. David Perdue as a \u201cPants on Fire\u201d liar for calling his opponent Sen. Jon Ossoff a \u201csocialist.\u201d They gave Donald Trump a \u201cPants on Fire\u201d rating for calling Ossoff and his fellow Georgia Democrat Sen. Raphael Warnock \u201cradical\u201d and \u201cthe most extreme far-left candidates in the history of our country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But President Joe Biden can go to Atlanta and suggest that anyone who opposes the Democrat \u201cvoting rights\u201d bill has taken the side of George Wallace, Bull Connor and Jefferson Davis, and \u2026 crickets.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes the exaggerations aren\u2019t character assassination. On the Jan. 6 anniversary, Vice President Kamala Harris compared 1\/6 to 9\/11 and Pearl Harbor. Fact-checkers said nothing \u2026 except Snopes.com threw a \u201cMostly False\u201d at conservative radio host Todd Starnes for saying Harris said 1\/6 was \u201cworse\u201d than 9\/11. Matthew Dowd actually said that in 2021 \u2014 and the fact-checkers yawned.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a brief rundown of the top fact-checkers on Biden\u2019s Atlanta speech: PolitiFact? Nothing. FactCheck.org? Nothing. AP Fact Check? Nothing. Reuters? Nothing. CNN\u2019s Daniel Dale team? Nothing. Snopes? Nothing. Lead Stories? Nothing.<\/p>\n<p>Lead Stories did offer a UFO check this month, that \u201cBiden, Harris Did NOT Visit Area 51 By Plane On January 8, 2022.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The exception to this depressing rule is Washington Post \u201cFact Checker\u201d head Glenn Kessler. He did not throw \u201cPinocchios\u201d at Biden\u2019s Bull Connor garbage. But he did apply the maximum \u201cFour Pinocchios\u201d rating to another passage in the Atlanta speech, when Biden claimed he was so \u201cdamn old\u201d he\u2019d been arrested for civil-rights protesting. Kessler pointed out that Biden has a history of claiming he\u2019s been arrested, including in South Africa while he was trying to see Nelson Mandela, when there\u2019s no proof Biden\u2019s been arrested for anything.<\/p>\n<p>Kessler concluded, \u201cThe primary source for this story is Biden \u2014 and we\u2019ve learned over the years that he is not always a reliable source.\u201d But remember, Kessler has no running Biden lie-counter like he did for Trump, and he won\u2019t write a book about all of Biden\u2019s lies, like he did for Trump. This is because he works for the Biden-backing Washington Post.<\/p>\n<p>The Post fact-checker also recently exemplified the tendency to preemptively scream \u201cMissing Context\u201d when Republicans mock Democrats. Last March, Kessler threw two Pinocchios at Sen. Tom Cotton for predicting that Charleston mass shooter Dylann Roof would get a $1,400 relief check from the Democrats\u2019 COVID \u201crelief\u201d package. Now we\u2019ve learned Boston Marathon terrorist Dzhokhar Tsarnaev received that relief check, so Kessler publicly (and partially) walked back his attack on Cotton. But he kept a single Pinocchio for bad context.<\/p>\n<p>There were no Pinocchios at all in an article titled \u201cThe Senate battle over whether election laws signify a new \u2018Jim Crow.&#8217;\u201d Kessler quoted Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer claiming, \u201cThe heirs of Jim Crow are weakening the foundations of our democracy,\u201d and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell calling this rhetoric \u201cnonsensical.\u201d Overall, it was a useful review of state voting laws. But despite calling it \u201crhetorical overkill,\u201d there were zero Pinocchios for Schumer.<\/p>\n<p>No one expects liberal \u201cfact-checkers\u201d to mark it as a broken promise that when Biden was proclaimed winner of the 2020 election, he claimed it was \u201ca time to heal in America,\u201d a time to \u201cmarshal the forces of decency.\u201d Liberals are staunchly in favor of smash-mouth, our-way-or-you\u2019re-racist politicking. Being decent or factual doesn\u2019t matter \u2014 only winning does.<\/p>\n<p>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most frustrating things about \u201cfact-checkers\u201d is how they leap on conservative rhetoric against Democrats as \u201cfalse\u201d or \u201cmissing context\u201d but give Democrats a pass to say the wildest, nastiest things about conservatives. For example, PolitiFact pounced on Georgia Sen. David Perdue as a \u201cPants on Fire\u201d liar for calling his opponent Sen. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1217913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1217913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1217913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1217913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1217913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}