{"id":812668,"date":"2021-09-25T07:14:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-25T11:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=812668"},"modified":"2021-09-25T09:40:19","modified_gmt":"2021-09-25T13:40:19","slug":"graham-twitter-and-the-fact-checkers-line-up-for-biden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/graham-twitter-and-the-fact-checkers-line-up-for-biden\/","title":{"rendered":"GRAHAM: Twitter And The \u2018Fact-Checkers\u2019 Line Up For Biden"},"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\">18<\/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-twitter-and-the-fact-checkers-line-up-for-biden%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=812668&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\/09\/D1660EF9-FE43-4D77-845C-5177BCF55744-scaled-e1632429455532.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Twitter makes it easy to realize that the purpose of \u201cfact-checkers\u201d is most commonly rushing to defend President Joe Biden from misinterpretation\u2026 and mockery.<\/p>\n<p>On Sept. 20, Twitter warned, \u201cA video of President Biden discussing hurricane preparedness has been edited out of context, according to fact-checkers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tweets aired this clip of Biden from Aug. 10: \u201cLet me be clear: If you\u2019re in a state where hurricanes often strike \u2014 like Florida or the Gulf Coast or into Texas \u2014 a vital part of preparing for hurricane season is to get vaccinated now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s easy to see his point: You may not want to be stuck in a shelter while you\u2019re unvaccinated. But it does sound a little funny that your \u201cvital preparations\u201d would be: board up the house, batten down the hatches and then get the shot. It sounds like \u201cinsert a plea for vaccination in every public statement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This message was later mocked with humor and sarcasm, and the protective \u201cfact-checkers\u201d are very sensitive about viral hot takes against Biden. Twitter cited \u201cfact checks\u201d from Snopes, the Associated Press and PolitiFact. Line them up!<\/p>\n<p>Twitter also added to the thread a Reuters dispatch from Aug. 10, which reported, \u201cThe president said a spike in COVID-19 infections would exacerbate the already difficult challenges involved in preparing for hurricane season, adding: \u2018It\u2019s likely serious hurricanes are going to come this month.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They added, \u201cBiden\u2019s remarks echo hurricane preparedness tips published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.\u201d Twitter wants us to understand all the experts and facts inevitably line up for Biden.<\/p>\n<p>It had an \u201call hands on deck\u201d sound to it. Everyone leapt on defense. The defense was plausible, but the energy felt very personal.<\/p>\n<p>Snopes cited a tweet from the account \u201cRich Kids of Tehran\u201d that included the video clip and the words, \u201cBiden: Get vaccinated to protect yourselves from hurricanes! This is the leader of the world\u2019s most powerful country!\u201d Biden\u2019s actual message is there. But then they mocked it with a clip from the movie \u201cBilly Madison\u201d about how dumb Biden sounds. Snopes declared, \u201cBiden did not say that vaccines protect people from hurricanes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>AP was protesting a TikTok video \u2014 something popular with young people. This video also ran the Biden sentence and then joked in text at the bottom of the video, \u201cGet vaccinated to protect yourselves from hurricanes y\u2019all.\u201d AP ruled: \u201cFalse. The video clip, first posted on TikTok, was edited to remove key portions of Biden\u2019s comments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s always interesting when the media complains that presidential statements and actions are edited to \u201cremove key portions.\u201d They\u2019ll pretend this never happens in media coverage of Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>PolitiFact also jumped on the TikTok video: \u201cThe video takes Biden of context and misleadingly captions his remarks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Just in the last year, Twitter has pounced on nine TikTok videos critical of Biden. On Election Day, they protested a Biden bumble: \u201cBiden says he doesn\u2019t need voters to get elected.\u201d That\u2019s the way words actually came out of his mouth \u2014 \u201cI don\u2019t need you to get me elected\u201d \u2014 but they were upset it was mocked.<\/p>\n<p>Their headline read, \u201cVideo misrepresents Biden\u2019s speech in Michigan.\u201d No, the video shows it\u2019s what came out of his mouth, but their energy was, \u201cYou know what he meant!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve shown that Biden can uncork lies, such as calling the GOP-backed Georgia election integrity law \u201cJim Crow on steroids,\u201d and get a free pass. If Twitter and their affiliated fact police were half as energetic in reviewing Biden\u2019s remarks for false and misleading statements and missing contexts, they wouldn\u2019t seem so transparently partisan. But their emotionally overwrought defenses are a fact that\u2019s easily checked.<\/p>\n<p><i>The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>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.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter makes it easy to realize that the purpose of \u201cfact-checkers\u201d is most commonly rushing to defend President Joe Biden from misinterpretation\u2026 and mockery.On Sept. 20, Twitter warned, \u201cA video &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-812668","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\/812668","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=812668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812668\/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=812668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}