{"id":164850,"date":"2021-02-23T15:15:40","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T20:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=164850"},"modified":"2021-02-23T15:43:59","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T20:43:59","slug":"cnns-fact-checker-extraordinaire-daniel-dale-disappears-proving-that-facts-dont-matter-quite-as-much-in-bidens-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnns-fact-checker-extraordinaire-daniel-dale-disappears-proving-that-facts-dont-matter-quite-as-much-in-bidens-america\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN\u2019s Fact-Checker \u2018Extraordinaire\u2019 Daniel Dale Disappears, Proving That Facts Don\u2019t Matter Quite As Much In Biden\u2019s America"},"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\">34<\/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%2Fcnns-fact-checker-extraordinaire-daniel-dale-disappears-proving-that-facts-dont-matter-quite-as-much-in-bidens-america%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=164850&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-1231208453-1200x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>Daniel Dale is known as CNN\u2019s \u201cfact-checker extraordinaire.\u201d According to the outlet, Dale is \u201ca reporter in CNN\u2019s Washington Bureau, where he fact-checks political claims.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cDuring the 2020 election cycle, he fact-checked President Trump, Democratic presidential candidates, and other lawmakers,\u201d the<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/profiles\/daniel-dale#about\"><span>bio<\/span><\/a> <span>continues. \u201cPrior to joining CNN in 2019, Dale spent over a decade at the Toronto Star, including as Washington Bureau Chief from 2015 to 2019, where he was the first journalist to fact-check every false statement from President Donald Trump.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Ironically, this needs context.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>While CNN may claim that Dale \u201cfact-checked President Trump, Democratic presidential candidates, and other lawmakers,\u201d he clearly focused on Trump and his campaign until the election was complete. According to<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/news\/what-ever-happened-to-daniel-dale-cnn-fact-checker-has-disappeared-from-air-post-trump\/\"><span>Mediaite<\/span><\/a><span>, in a piece titled \u201cWhat Ever Happened to Daniel Dale? CNN Fact-Checker Has Disappeared From Air Post-Trump,\u201d Dale has \u201cappeared or been mentioned on the network more than once every other day on average\u201d since joining the network in June of 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Throughout 2020, Daniel Dale was an almost constant feature in CNN\u2019s election coverage. While he claimed to provide bipartisan and objective \u201cfact-checking\u201d resources, his objective was arguably the same as much of the broader \u201cfact-checking\u201d apparatus \u2014 to target Republicans and defend Democrats.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>One such obvious example was provided by Dale after the first presidential debate. Speaking with CNN\u2019s Wolf Blitzer \u2014 who decried Trump\u2019s \u201cslew of false statements\u201d \u2014 Dale\u2019s bias was clear. After describing Trump as a \u201cserial liar\u201d and condemning his \u201cavalanche of lying,\u201d Dale made the demonstrably false argument that \u201cBiden, conversely, made at least a couple of false or misleading claims but, honestly, he was largely accurate.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cWe had an avalanche of lying from President Trump.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>CNN\u2019s Daniel Dale breaks down the fact check of the first presidential debate of the 2020 election between President Trump and Democratic candidate Joe Biden. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OyXvJf69k5\">https:\/\/t.co\/OyXvJf69k5<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xQHYqY5HLL\">pic.twitter.com\/xQHYqY5HLL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CNN (@CNN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CNN\/status\/1311225520814776320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 30, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>\u201cLargely accurate.\u201d \u201cMisleading.\u201d \u201cMissing context.\u201d Subjective and subtle language is Daniel Dale\u2019s toolbox. For Trump, it\u2019s an \u201cavalanche of lying.\u201d For Biden, he\u2019s \u201clargely accurate,\u201d despite The Daily Wire listing at least<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/cnn-claims-biden-debate-largely-accurate-here-are-14-false-claims-by-biden\"><span>14 false claims<\/span><\/a> <span>made by Biden during that same debate. These falsehoods included the \u201cvery fine people\u201d lie, that the accusations against Hunter Biden were \u201ctotally discredited,\u201d and that Biden never threatened to withhold aid from Ukraine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>After achieving the \u201cfact-checking\u201d community\u2019s apparent goal \u2014 to elect a Democrat \u2014 Dale has now served his purpose, and seems to have been filed for storage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201c[Dale\u2019s] exposure dropped sharply after November 4, and according to the TV Eyes media monitoring database, since President Joe Biden\u2019s inauguration on January 20, Dale has only appeared on the network once. And that appearance, last Friday, was to fact-check Donald Trump\u2019s lawyers,\u201d Mediaite added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>While Dale has been relegated to the news wasteland of CNN\u2019s written media, his blatant partisanship has continued. Looking at Dale\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/profiles\/daniel-dale\">posts<\/a> since Trump\u2019s last day in office, try to notice a difference between his \u201cfact-checking\u201d of Republicans and Democrats:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><span>Dale: Reflections on four weird years fact checking every word from Donald Trump.<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><span>Fact check: True to form, Trump makes multiple false claims in his final comments in office.<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><span>Fact check: 11 false claims Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has tweeted in the last month<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><span>Fact check: Biden falsely claims journalists had all said his vaccination goal was impossible to meet<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><span>Fact-checking 7 statistical claims from Biden\u2019s (quite factual) economic speech<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><span>Fact check: Jim Jordan falsely claims Biden ordered the release of all undocumented immigrants<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><span>This Biden clip is being used against him. Here are the facts<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><span>Fact check: No, Biden didn\u2019t say that signing lots of executive orders makes you a dictator<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><span>Fact check: Progressive Super PAC falsely claims Marco Rubio refuses to condemn Capitol attack<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><span>Fact check: Trump\u2019s official response to impeachment includes obvious lies<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><span>Fact check: South Dakota governor ignores poor health numbers to claim state\u2019s pandemic performance has been \u2018better than virtually every other state\u2019<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><span>Fact check: Breaking down Capitol accusations made against and made by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><span>The facts behind AOC\u2019s story of the Capitol riot\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><span>Fact check: How Trump\u2019s lawyers twisted the facts in their anti-impeachment filing<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><span>Trump\u2019s lawyer blows up one of Trump\u2019s biggest lies<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><span>Fact check: Claim about an insurrectionist trying to send a Pelosi laptop to Russia hasn\u2019t been proven<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><span>\u2018Insultingly misleading\u2019: Dale on Trump lawyer\u2019s claim<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><span>Fact check: Trump lawyers make multiple false claims in impeachment defense<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><span>Fact check: Trump lawyer closes impeachment defense with a barrage of dishonesty<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><span>Fact check: Biden makes at least four false statistical claims at CNN town hall<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><span>Biden used 3 key stats to make a point. Except they weren\u2019t true<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><span>Fact check: \u2018When Texas freezes over\u2019 tweet is a fake, not from Ted Cruz<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><span>CNN fact-checker: Biden lies less than Trump, but he\u2019s not perfect<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span>In terms of raw numbers, despite Biden\u2019s administration starting one day after the first article on this list, Dale\u2019s focus has remained on the Republican Party or Trump and his team. Eleven of his \u201cfact-checks\u201d overtly criticized Trump or the GOP in some way, with only six openly referencing Democrats in the context of sharing falsehoods.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Moreover, the tone and language used differs by political affiliation. For Trump, it was \u201cfour weird years.\u201d \u201cTrue to form, Trump makes multiple false claims.\u201d \u201cObvious lies.\u201d \u201cTwisted the facts.\u201d \u201cBlows up one of Trump\u2019s biggest lies.\u201d \u201cInsultingly misleading.\u201d \u201cBarrage of dishonesty.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Compare this to any \u201cfact-check\u201d relating to a Democrat. \u201cBiden falsely claims.\u201d \u201c7 statistical claims from Biden\u2019s (quite factual) economic speech.\u201d \u201cBreaking down Capitol accusations made against and made by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.\u201d \u201cThe facts behind AOC\u2019s story of the Capitol riot.\u201d \u201cBiden makes at least four false statistical claims.\u201d \u201cExcept they weren\u2019t true.\u201d \u201cBiden lies less than Trump, but he\u2019s not perfect.\u201d The language is careful, muted, even apologetic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Others are seemingly written to actively defend Democrats, adding intent to editorialize factual information, such as \u201cThis Biden clip is being used against him. Here are the facts.\u201d Another example was Dale\u2019s backfilling of context to defend Biden.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>\u201cThese Biden critics are taking his \u2018dictator\u2019 remark out of context. Biden explicitly campaigned on signing various executive orders, including those to rescind some of then-President Donald Trump\u2019s own executive orders, and he didn\u2019t say in October that signing a large number of orders means a president is a dictator. Rather, after Biden rejected the idea of using an executive order to raise taxes on corporations and wealthy people, he<\/em> <em>said<\/em> <em>there are \u2018things you can\u2019t do by executive order unless you\u2019re a dictator.\u2019 In other words, Biden was saying what he had said before and has said<\/em> <em>since<\/em><em>\u00a0\u2014 that executive orders are unconstitutional for some particular purposes.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>For fact-checkers, context is their favorite tool of adjustment. Accurate quotes don\u2019t mean what they appear to mean when context is added or, more accurately, created.<\/p>\n<p><span>Dale encapsulates the fundamental problem with the current methods of \u201cfact-checkers.\u201d When Republicans are the target, no detail is too small, no subjective assumption too unsupported, no editorialization too unsubstantiated to achieve the ultimate goal. When Democrats are the occasional target, context is added, wording is blurred, and comparisons are made to lessen their impact. \u201cBiden lies less than Trump, but he\u2019s not perfect\u201d is one unbelievable example.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The entire focus of fact-checkers should be binary truth. Something is correct, or something is false. By apologizing for Biden\u2019s repeated lies as \u201che\u2019s not perfect\u201d tells you everything you need to know. As does Dale\u2019s sudden banishment from our television screens.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>For fact-checkers, it\u2019s not about the facts. They\u2019re just a tool for the Democratic party. Expect Dale to now languish offscreen, and to only make a miraculous return to the forefront of CNN programming when the next inconvenient Republican makes their mark.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Ian Haworth is an Editor and Writer for The Daily Wire. Follow him on Twitter at\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ighaworth\"><em>@ighaworth<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>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\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Dale is known as CNN\u2019s \u201cfact-checker extraordinaire.\u201d According to the outlet, Dale is \u201ca reporter in CNN\u2019s Washington Bureau, where he fact-checks political claims.\u201d \u201cDuring the 2020 election cycle, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2274051,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-1231208453-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"CNN\u2019s Fact-Checker \u2018Extraordinaire\u2019 Daniel Dale Disappears, Proving That Facts Don\u2019t Matter Quite As Much In Biden\u2019s America","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-1231208453-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"CNN\u2019s Fact-Checker \u2018Extraordinaire\u2019 Daniel Dale Disappears, Proving That Facts Don\u2019t Matter Quite As Much In Biden\u2019s America","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164850","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2274051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}