Biden-Loving PolitiFact Scours Conservative Sites Like Ours on ‘Bird Poop’ Story

Conservative sites can even be punished for the most absurd content regarding President Biden.

The erroneous story that Biden was bitten by birds is a common one. The president gave a speech in Iowa promoting how corn-enhanced gasoline could help reduce the price at the pump. PolitiFact did not offer any “fact checks” of anything Biden stated, however it did criticize conservative websites for the jacket Biden wore.

It was “FALSE” to say “A bird pooped on Joe Biden during his speech” in Iowa. PolitiFact’s Jeff Cercone summarized on April 13: 

• At a Iowa bioprocessing plant, President Joe Biden delivered a speech to address the new ethanol strategy that will lower gasoline prices.

• One substance fell on his jacket during a speech, leading to many believing that it was a bird’s droppings.

• The scene was captured on video. It clearly shows distillers grains floating from the top of the pile, near the place where President Obama spoke.

  The video was cited in the tweet by him, noting that it was posted at RedState. 

  President Biden put the blame on recent price hikes on Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, laid out ways he’s trying to bring prices down.

  Biden also found it amusing the sheer size of the plant he was inside and the lack of corn byproducts behind him pic.twitter.com/i8MaWtczJx

  — Iowa Starting Line (@IAStartingLine) April 12, 2022

  Cercone failed to evaluate Biden’s claims that Putin was responsible for the price increases. His focus was on poop. But PolitiFact looks like a partisan site when Sen. Ron Johnson gets a “Mostly False” for blaming high gas prices on the Democrats and Joe Biden gets a Mostly True for claiming “The current spike in gas prices is largely the fault of Vladimir Putin.”

  We found that in Biden’s first year in office, PolitiFact checked Biden critics almost six times more often that they fact-checked Biden.

  Cercone was swaggering about the right-wingers:

  Joe Biden’s speech today was interrupted by a bird. You can’t make this up,” read the headline of a video posted on Facebook by conservative activist Ryan Fournier.

  This is possible, in fact. 

  Snopes.com user Dan Evon has also taken the leap on “bird poop” fact checking.

  Based on the “fact checkers,” Facebook has restricted our sister site MRCTV’s 3.3-million-follower page for the next three months for an article insisting that the president had the poopoo, and the article having now been branded with a “false information” label to protect the public from such damaging myths. The semi-suspension follows a series of Facebook-flagged MRCTV posts, including one image pointing out America’s energy independence prior to the Biden administration, and a video of President Biden wandering aimlessly around the White House.

  Brent Bozell (founder and president of MRC) cried foul or fowl 

  Discrimination is being made over the fact that Biden was pooped on by birds.

  Facebook’s “fact-checkers”, as they are called, don’t really care about truth. Their aim is to remove conservatives.

  It is the current state of social media. https://t.co/diGEG0nlQf

  — Brent Bozell (@BrentBozell) April 18, 2022