{"id":1444664,"date":"2022-04-18T17:31:12","date_gmt":"2022-04-18T21:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1444664"},"modified":"2022-04-18T17:31:16","modified_gmt":"2022-04-18T21:31:16","slug":"fact-checkers-to-voters-dont-believe-your-lyin-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-checkers-to-voters-dont-believe-your-lyin-eyes\/","title":{"rendered":"Fact-Checkers to Voters: Don\u2019t Believe Your Lyin\u2019 Eyes"},"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\">16<\/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%2Ffact-checkers-to-voters-dont-believe-your-lyin-eyes%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=1444664&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--><div><\/div>\n<p><span>It was only a matter of hours after a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FreeBeacon\/status\/1514691339639791629\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>video<\/span><\/a><span> circulated by the <em>Washington<\/em>\u00a0<\/span><i><span>Free Beacon<\/span><\/i><span> went viral that the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.snopes.com\/articles\/408129\/viral-videos-disingenuous-captions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>fact<\/span><\/a><span>\u2013<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibtimes.co.in\/fact-check-no-biden-didnt-shake-hands-thin-air-wasnt-confused-see-full-clip-847509\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>checkers<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/trending\/trending-globally\/did-biden-shake-hands-with-thin-air-memes-take-over-as-fact-checkers-say-otherwise-7871738\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>swarmed<\/span><\/a><span>. The video shows a feeble and apparently disoriented President Joe Biden finishing a speech and trying to shake hands with thin air.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Don\u2019t believe your lyin\u2019 eyes, say the partisans at <\/span><i><span>Snopes<\/span><\/i><span>. &#8220;<\/span><span>Maybe there are additional angles or longer clips that can add some more context,&#8221; their <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.snopes.com\/articles\/408129\/viral-videos-disingenuous-captions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>article<\/span><\/a><span> states. (Can anybody imagine the same sentence coming from one of these &#8220;fact-checkers&#8221; if the politician were a Republican?)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Pointing to footage captured from a different angle, <\/span><i><span>Snopes<\/span><\/i><span> writes, &#8220;Here\u2019s what we saw when we watched the video: We saw President Joe Biden standing at a podium. We heard the applause of a crowd. We saw him step away from the podium after finishing his speech. We saw him gesture at the crowd. We saw him turn toward another group of people. We saw him turn to the back of the stage. Then we saw him walk off the stage where he appeared to talk to someone in the crowd.&#8221; Nothing to see here!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The <\/span><i><span>International Business Times<\/span><\/i><span> is <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibtimes.co.in\/fact-check-no-biden-didnt-shake-hands-thin-air-wasnt-confused-see-full-clip-847509\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>even more certain<\/span><\/a><span> that a dementia-ridden Biden wasn\u2019t shaking hands with a phantom. Instead, he was &#8220;<\/span><span>gesturing at the people on the right and eventually behind him who were cheering. He even gestures toward the crowd on the left side of the dais, but it is covered by a mic stand. After reviewing the full footage, <em>IBTimes<\/em> has arrived at the conclusion that claims about Biden shaking hands with thin air and looking confused are entirely misleading.&#8221; Thanks for clearing that up!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>For the <\/span><i><span>Free Beacon<\/span><\/i><span>, it\u2019s d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu all over again after living through the endless and self-parodic fact-checks of our <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/biden-admin-to-fund-crack-pipe-distribution-to-advance-racial-equity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>report<\/span><\/a><span> on Team Biden\u2019s plan to distribute crack pipes at taxpayer expense, followed by the administration\u2019s <em>ex post facto<\/em>, ass-covering assurances that these safe smoking kits for crackheads would exclude that key piece of paraphernalia. False, the fact-checkers huffed, citing the Biden flacks, while simultaneously explaining why the distribution of said crack pipes is a wonderful thing according to the harm-reduction approach embraced by the Biden administration.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>If there\u2019s one actual fact we\u2019ve learned from the scores of these pompous fools, it\u2019s that if a damaging bit of news about a Democrat gets traction, an idiot army will storm once more into the breach crying &#8220;disinformation.&#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was only a matter of hours after a video circulated by the Washington\u00a0Free Beacon went viral that the fact\u2013checkers swarmed. 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