Column: ‘Fact Checkers’ Bored by Biden’s Outbursts

President Biden can say the craziest things and we know that the liberal “fact checkers” are very likely to look the other way.

Some of these fact-mangling gaffes might be called “senior moments.” At a Lockheed Martin plant in Alabama on May 3, Biden suggested we were sending missiles to Russia. “Before Russia attacked, we made sure Russia had Javelins and other weapons to strengthen their defenses so Ukraine was ready for whatever happened,” Biden said midway through his speech.

Minutes later, Biden said “Just a few days ago, the Wall Street Journal As quoted in a young Hungarian fighter saying, ‘Without the Javelins, it would have been very hard to stop the enemy pushing ahead.’” It was a Ukrainian fighter.

Sometimes Biden speaks out in a cruel way. “This MAGA crowd is really the most extreme political organization that has existed in American history,” he said in reference to abortion at the White House on May 4.  Reporter Sebastian Smith suggested to Jen Psaki this “MAGA crowd” could be understood as roughly half the voters in the last presidential election.

Trump voters seem more extreme than KKK, neo Nazis, and Communist Party USA. Is this more extreme than ISIS homegrown fighters? The media didn’t treat this as vicious or bizarre. This blather was described by the media as blunt and gutsy.

ABC’s Terry Moran narrated: “Biden says that the followers of former President Donald Trump will push Republicans to go further, using some of the toughest political language of his presidency.” CBS’s Ed O’Keefe merely said “President Biden is now warning of what could come.” NBC’s Peter Alexander touted Biden “warning the conservative court could unravel other privacy rights, like same-sex marriage and contraception.”

In the same mud puddle of remarks, Biden uncorked his wildest imagination: “What happens if you have states change the laws saying that children who are LGBTQ can’t be in classrooms with other children? Is that legit under the way that the decision is written?” Now the Republicans want to segregate the children by “sexual orientation”? Fake news: Pants On Fire.

Terry Moran used that same quote as well, but treated it like normal comments and not a QAnon-level conspiracy theory. “President Biden, echoing legal scholars on the left, is warning that the leaked Supreme Court draft opinion that would overturn Roe vs. Wade could be just the beginning of the rollback of rights.”

When Fox’s Peter Doocy asked Jen Psaki what on Earth the president meant, she said “we’ve seen extreme laws that target LGBTQ families, their kids across the country. And I think what he’s saying is: We don’t know what they’re capable of, given what they’ve already done to date.”

Translation: Democrats can make the most preposterous predictions of what Republicans will do, and the liberal reporters and “fact checkers” yawn. They would rather defend Democrats.

PolitiFact only has fact-checked Psaki two times in the past 15 months. PolitiFact recently awarded Biden a “Mostly True” for claiming “The current spike in gas prices is largely the fault of Vladimir Putin.” In a similar vein, Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler deemed Biden’s Putin-and-gas math “defensible,” so No Pinocchios.

Meanwhile, one of Facebook’s favorite fact-checkers, LeadStories.com, was busy insisting “Barack Obama Is NOT a Muslim.” CNN’s “Facts First” page is still obsessing over January 6 and false claims about the 2020 election. AP’s Fact Check went after Dinesh D’Souza’s 2020-fraud film 2,000 Mules.

Studies have shown PolitiFact has checked Biden’s critics almost six times as often as they fact-check the president.  People who object to this tilt aren’t hostile to “facts.” They are opposed to incessantly liberal target selection.