{"id":1741429,"date":"2022-11-16T16:18:27","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T21:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1741429"},"modified":"2022-11-16T16:18:31","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T21:18:31","slug":"trump-is-back-and-so-are-the-fact-checkers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-is-back-and-so-are-the-fact-checkers\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Is Back (And So Are the Fact-Checkers)"},"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%2Ftrump-is-back-and-so-are-the-fact-checkers%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=1741429&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> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/\">Media<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">They no longer have to feign interest in holding the Biden administration accountable<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/andrew-stiles\/\" title=\"Posts by Andrew Stiles\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Andrew Stiles<\/a> \u2022 November 16, 2022 4:15 pm  <\/p>\n<p><strong>What happened<\/strong>: Donald Trump is officially <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/elections\/trump-for-president-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">running for president<\/a> again.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why it matters<\/strong>: The mainstream media&#8217;s army of professional fact-checkers can finally go back to work. Trump&#8217;s entry into the 2024 presidential campaign means journalists can stop pretending to be interested in &#8220;speaking truth to power&#8221; by holding the politicians in power\u2014President Joe Biden and the Democratic Party\u2014to account. Let the feeding frenzy begin.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Happy days are here again<\/strong>: Media outlets<em>\u00a0<\/em>responded to Trump&#8217;s campaign <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/elections\/trump-for-president-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announcement<\/a> on Tuesday by flooding the zone with Trump content. Why wouldn&#8217;t they? Ratings and profits are way down since Trump left office, and his reemergence means that millions of brain-damaged liberals will require continuous reassurance that Trump is bad and opposing him is morally righteous.\u00a0Thanksgiving is just around the corner, so they&#8217;re also going to need plenty of Trump fact-checks to print out and share with their unenlightened relatives.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Don&#8217;t call it an obsession<\/strong>: Trump&#8217;s name was all over the <em>New York Times <\/em>website on Wednesday. In addition to fact-checking his speech, the <em>Times<\/em>\u00a0published the following Trump-centric articles within the last 48 hours:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 &#8220;Donald Trump Is Finally Finished&#8221; by Bret Stephens<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 &#8220;Trump&#8217;s Announcement Is a Sign of Weakness&#8221; by Ross Douthat<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 &#8220;The Big Liar and His Losing Little Liars&#8221; by Thomas Friedman<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 &#8220;America Deserves Better Than Donald Trump&#8221; by The Editorial Board<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 &#8220;The Chaos Inside Donald Trump&#8217;s Mind&#8221; by Michael Wolff<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 &#8220;Don&#8217;t Buy Into the Trump-DeSantis Smackdown&#8221; by Michelle Goldberg<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 &#8220;Trump&#8217;s Don&#8217;t-Blame-Me Caucus&#8221; by Jonathan Weisman<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 &#8220;Trump, the Black Hole and Me&#8221; by Patrick Healy<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 &#8220;How Is It Possible That We Are Still Talking About This Man?&#8221; by Peter Wehner<\/p>\n<p>A real mystery, indeed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Some context<\/strong>: Prior to publishing &#8220;We Fact-Checked Trump&#8217;s Speech&#8221; on Tuesday night, the <em>Times<\/em>\u00a0was primarily focused on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/search?dropmab=false&#038;endDate=20221116&#038;query=%22fact-checking%22&#038;sort=best&#038;startDate=20211116\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fact-checking<\/a> Ted Cruz, Mitch McConnell, Kevin McCarthy, Joe Rogan, GOP campaign ads, and &#8220;Republican lawmakers are seizing on misleading claims.&#8221; In fairness, the paper also published an article about the time Biden &#8220;verbally fumbled&#8221; during a campaign speech in Florida. Additionally, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/search?dropmab=false&#038;query=%22fact-checking%20biden%22&#038;sort=best\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">search<\/a> of the\u00a0<em>Times<\/em> website found a single Biden fact check published during his presidency\u2014a week after he took office in 2021\u2014which commended his &#8220;regard for basic facts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Like a phoenix from the ashes<\/strong>: Trump&#8217;s return is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mainstream media&#8217;s army of professional fact-checkers can finally go back to work. Trump&#8217;s entry into the 2024 presidential campaign means journalists can stop pretending to be interested in &#8220;speaking truth to power&#8221; by holding the politicians in power\u2014President Joe Biden and the Democratic Party\u2014to account. Let the feeding frenzy begin.<br \/>\nThe post Trump Is Back (And So Are the Fact-Checkers) appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97,"featured_media":1741432,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1741429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741429","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\/97"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1741429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1741432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1741429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1741429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1741429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}