{"id":2381724,"date":"2024-12-19T05:26:02","date_gmt":"2024-12-19T10:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/check-yourself-politifact-here-are-the-biggest-lies-of-the-year\/"},"modified":"2024-12-19T05:27:31","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T10:27:31","slug":"check-yourself-politifact-here-are-the-biggest-lies-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/check-yourself-politifact-here-are-the-biggest-lies-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Check Yourself, PolitiFact. Here Are The Biggest Lies Of The Year"},"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\">22<\/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%2Fcheck-yourself-politifact-here-are-the-biggest-lies-of-the-year%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=2381724&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>The article critiques\u200b PolitiFact&#8217;s selection of\u2064 the &#8220;Lie of the Year,&#8221; which they attributed to former President Donald Trump&#8217;s claim that Haitian migrants were eating pets \u200din Springfield,Ohio. The\u2064 author suggests that the \u2063PolitiFact brainstorming session \u200dfor this choice was filled with \u200ddelusion and portrays the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/politifact-is-ticked-that-we-fact-checked-their-false-fact-check\/\" title=\"PolitiFact Is Ticked That We Fact-Checked Their False Fact-Check\">fact-checking organization<\/a> as biased. They reference an intern&#8217;s hypothetical \u2062suggestions about more impactful lies related to president Joe Biden, which were dismissed by the \u200deditor in favor of the &#8220;dog thing.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The piece details Trump&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/andrew-cuomo-accuser-and-former-aide-slams-new-york-lawmaker-for-claiming-200-ethnic-backgrounds\/\" title=\"Cuomo accuser criticizes NY lawmaker&#039;s claim of 200 ethnic backgrounds.\">controversial statement made<\/a> during a presidential debate, followed by media outlets labeling it a &#8220;baseless \u2062claim.&#8221; Though, the author \u200cargues that residents of springfield provided accounts of witnessing unusual behavior linked to migrants. They contend that PolitiFact disregarded evidence and instead labeled \u200dtrump&#8217;s assertion as a lie, instead of addressing the broader \u2063immigration issues the Biden governance has faced. \u200bThe \u200cauthor believes PolitiFact chose an unverifiable claim to sustain their narrative, ignoring more significant lies related to the Biden administration and its policies. <\/p>\n<p>In closing, the\u2064 piece sarcastically points out several other\u2063 ample lies that could have been highlighted but weren&#8217;t, criticizing both Biden&#8217;s claims about his presidency and \u200dthe media&#8217;s complicity in \u2062covering for Democratic leadership. the \u2064article presents a strong opinion that questions the integrity of PolitiFact&#8217;s fact-checking process and the\u200c broader media narrative around immigration and political \u200bdiscourse.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>I can only imagine how much delusion filled the room of the PolitiFact &ldquo;brainstorming&rdquo; session to choose the &ldquo;winning&rdquo; selection of its latest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politifact.com\/article\/2024\/dec\/17\/theyre-eating-the-pets-trump-vance-earn-politifact\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&ldquo;Lie of the Year.&rdquo;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bonchie at RedState nailed it with a post on X musing about what the meeting must have looked like through the eyes of a fresh-faced intern yet to realize that PolitiFact is nothing more than a leftist propaganda operation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Politifact intern: &ldquo;What if we go with the lie that Joe Biden was fit to serve? Or how about the lie that Biden wouldn&rsquo;t pardon his son? Those were hugely impactful.&rdquo;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Politifact editor: &ldquo;Nah, we&rsquo;re doing the dog thing.&rdquo;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<div lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>Politifact intern: &#8220;What if we go with the lie that Joe Biden was fit to serve? Or how about the lie that Biden wouldn&#8217;t pardon his son? Those were hugely impactful.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Politifact editor: &#8220;Nah, we&#8217;re doing the dog thing.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/x65rPMjsKs\">https:\/\/t.co\/x65rPMjsKs<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&mdash; Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bonchieredstate\/status\/1869379282960810095?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 18, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<h2>&lsquo;Baseless Claim&rsquo;<\/h2>\n<p>The &ldquo;dog thing,&rdquo; of course, refers to top-of-the-ticket Republicans&rsquo; claims that Haitian migrants had been eating the pets around Springfield, a small, rust-belt Ohio city <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/09\/03\/us-news\/kamala-harris-drops-unburdened-catchphrase-again-despite-mockery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">burdened by what has been<\/a> in the Biden-Harris years.<\/p>\n<p>At September&rsquo;s presidential debate, then-GOP nominee Donald Trump declared, &ldquo;In Springfield, they&rsquo;re eating the dogs, the people that came in. They&rsquo;re eating the cats. &hellip; They&rsquo;re eating the pets of the people that live there.&rdquo; The usual suspects in the accomplice media, without definitive proof of their own, proclaimed Trump&rsquo;s assertion a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2024-election\/trump-pushes-baseless-claim-immigrants-eating-pets-rcna170537\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&ldquo;baseless claim.&rdquo;<\/a> They were able to do so because they apparently spoke to the city manager who effectively said, <em>Nah, bro. That ain&rsquo;t happening.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>But some residents told a different story.&nbsp;In September, The Federalist <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/12\/17\/politifacts-lie-of-the-year-isnt-actually-a-lie-at-all\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">published<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/09\/10\/exclusive-police-audio-report-confirm-haitian-goose-hunting-in-ohio-they-all-had-geese-in-their-hands\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">audio<\/a> of &ldquo;an Aug. 26 phone call in which a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/politifacts-lie-of-the-year-isnt-actually-a-lie-at-all\/\" title=\"PolitiFact&#039;s &#039;Lie Of The Year&#039; Isn&#039;t Actually A Lie At All\">concerned resident told law enforcement<\/a> he had spotted a group of Haitians carrying four geese into a vehicle before driving off. Days later, Ohio authorities <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/09\/16\/ohio-department-of-natural-resources-confirms-second-springfield-phone-call-related-to-haitian-goose-hunting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">confirmed<\/a> that there had been another call to law enforcement related to Haitians hunting geese at local parks.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Multiple Springfield residents who <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/09\/13\/democrats-immigration-crisis-pushes-ohioans-to-the-breaking-point-whos-protecting-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">spoke<\/a> to The Federalist&rsquo;s Tristan Justice told of seeing fewer fowl in the parks and felines in the streets.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Corporate media outlets collectively pooh-poohing the accounts wrote the Springfield residents off as white supremacists offended that the Biden administration has flooded the community with thousands of Caribbean migrants in recent years.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>PolitiFact is doubling down on the lie of the lie.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;With a brazen disregard for facts, Donald Trump and his <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">running mate repeatedly peddled<\/a> a created story that in Springfield, Ohio, Haitian immigrants were eating pet dogs and cats,&rdquo; PolitiFact reported. &ldquo;With this claim, amplified before 67 million television viewers in his debate against Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris, Trump took his anti-migrant, the U.S. border-is-out-of-control campaign agenda to a new level.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>So the folks at the quack fact-checker picked a story they can&rsquo;t disprove as their &ldquo;Lie of the Year.&rdquo; In doing so, PolitiFact laughably suggests that saying President Joe Biden and his &ldquo;border czar,&rdquo; Vice President Kamala Harris, have left America with a border crisis is a lie. Trump is now president-elect in no small part because of the damage done by the Biden administration&rsquo;s open-border gambit. Even the exceptional propagandists at The New York Times were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/11\/06\/us\/trump-immigration-border.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">forced to concede<\/a> that truth. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Joseph Goebbels must be smiling in hell.<\/p>\n<h2>So Many Lies, So Little Interest<\/h2>\n<p>There are plenty of bona fide lies PolitiFact could have chosen. Certainly the great untruths that the cognitively compromised Biden was fit to serve one term, let alone a second, or that Harris was a competent replacement on the Democrat Party bingo card would have fit the fill. Biden lying that he wouldn&rsquo;t <a href=\"https:\/\/oversight.house.gov\/blog\/comer-on-fox-news-joe-biden-lied-from-start-to-finish-about-his-familys-influence-peddling-racket\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pardon<\/a> his morally bankrupt son, that&rsquo;s a good one. The &ldquo;no one is above the law&rdquo; schtick sure is funny and, it turns out, a complete and utter lie. It seems the only ones surprised by Biden&rsquo;s lie of the year are the corporate media &ldquo;news&rdquo; outlets who have been covering up and lying about the acting president&rsquo;s perfidy for years.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here&rsquo;s another lie told by an idiot: <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;One thing I&rsquo;ve always believed about public service, especially about the presidency, is the importance of asking yourself, &lsquo;Have we left the country in better shape than we found it?&rsquo; Today, I can say without, with every fiber of my being, with all my heart, the answer to the question is a resounding yes,&rdquo; Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vebYCTlBYVo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a> this week at a DNC holiday event celebrating his administration&rsquo;s &ldquo;achievements.&rdquo; He also described his vice president as &ldquo;someone of immense character that she demonstrated through her entire career.&rdquo; The record would suggest that&rsquo;s a very generous lie.<\/p>\n<p>How about the accomplice media insisting the Democratic National Committee <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/morning-glory-cover-up-coup-kamala\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">anointing Harris <\/a>as the presidential candidate after chloroforming Biden&rsquo;s reelection bid <a href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/article\/no-the-biden-harris-switch-is-not-a-coup.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wasn&rsquo;t a soft coup?<\/a> That was a bald-faced lie on a scale of P.T. Barnum&rsquo;s circus of frauds.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of the circus that was the Harris-Walz campaign, the vice president and running mate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz told some <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/10\/31\/seven-lies-kamala-harris-packed-into-22-minute-harrisburg-rally\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">epic whoppers <\/a>over the course of the campaign. From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c785n2n9334o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">lies <\/a>about inflation to immigration to job creation, the Democrats&rsquo; failed standard bearers had all kinds of trouble with the truth that could well be deemed &ldquo;lie of the year.&rdquo; And then there was Harris&rsquo; untruth that Trump would &ldquo;force states to monitor women&rsquo;s pregnancies.&rdquo; That was such an egregious lie that even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politifact.com\/factchecks\/list\/?category=&amp;ruling=false&amp;speaker=kamala-harris\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">PolitiFact took notice<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>&lsquo;We Have Totally Failed&rsquo;&nbsp;<\/h2>\n<p>The left is full of happy warriors in a sustained war on the truth. The nearly four-year Capitol &ldquo;insurrection&rdquo; lie crumbled further this year with the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/08\/28\/us-news\/pelosi-admits-she-shouldve-done-more-to-protect-capitol-on-jan-6-videos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">release of a curious video<\/a> in which former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi repeatedly admits she should have &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/06\/10\/us-news\/nancy-pelosi-says-i-take-responsibility-for-not-having-national-guard-at-the-capitol-on-jan-6-video-shows\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">done more to protect the US Capitol from the January 6 rioters<\/a>,&rdquo;&nbsp;according to the New York Post.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We have totally failed. We have to take some responsibility for not holding the security accountable for what could have happened,&rdquo; the California Democrat says at one point in video taken by her documentarian daughter. But Pelosi had no intention of taking responsibility for the security lapse. Republicans investigating the many abuses of the J6 Committee witch hunt obtained the video per demand to HBO. Instead, Pelosi quickly placed all of the blame on Trump, who spoke to demonstrators about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Rigged-Media-Democrats-Seized-Elections\/dp\/168451259X\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">rigged<\/a> 2020 election on Jan. 6, 2021, before the protests degenerated into riots. Pelosi <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/08\/28\/us-news\/pelosi-admits-she-shouldve-done-more-to-protect-capitol-on-jan-6-videos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said,<\/a> Trump&rsquo;s &ldquo;gotta pay a price for that.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The price became the full-scale weaponization of the Biden-Harris Justice Department against the left&rsquo;s no. 1 political enemy, Donald Trump, and those who dared to support him. Voters in November rejected the left&rsquo;s ultimate lie of the year, that Trump is a <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/07\/11\/in-calling-for-biden-to-cancel-his-campaign-democrats-and-co-show-their-moral-bankruptcy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&ldquo;threat to democracy,&rdquo;<\/a> a lie driven by a Pravda press that sold it as truth. The same people who brought you Russian collusion and demanded that Hunter Biden&rsquo;s incriminating laptop wasn&rsquo;t real are the last people to be believed as arbiters of the truth.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The real &ldquo;lie of the year&rdquo; is not cats and dogs in Springfield, it&rsquo;s the delusion of PolitiFact and its corporate media ilk that they can be trusted to truthfully testify to what is a lie and what is not.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Matt Kittle is a senior elections correspondent for The Federalist. An award-winning investigative reporter and 30-year veteran of print, broadcast, and online journalism, Kittle previously served as the executive director of Empower Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can only guess at the delusion in PolitiFact&#8217;s &#8220;Lie of the Year&#8221; meeting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":656,"featured_media":2381725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Screenshot-2024-12-18-at-2.27.55-PM-1024x523.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[14599,47095,5117,5894,8159],"class_list":["post-2381724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-fact-checking","tag-check-yourself","tag-lies","tag-politics","tag-politifact"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Screenshot-2024-12-18-at-2.27.55-PM-1024x523.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2381724","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\/656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2381724"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2381724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2381728,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2381724\/revisions\/2381728"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2381725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2381724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2381724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2381724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}