Column: Partisan ‘Fact Checkers’ Despise Biden Satire

A video was taken by someone on June 18 of President Biden riding his bike in Rehoboth Beach. As he stopped, his left foot caught the pedal of the bike and he fell onto the concrete. It wouldn’t have mattered if it was on tape.

Social media quickly brought up Trump being ridiculed because he walked gingerly down a ramp during the 2020 West Point Commencement. The liberal media – stoked by Trump-loathing social-media accounts – spread it far and wide.

Spencer Brown at Townhall pointed out the Biden campaign even made an ad championing Biden’s vigor, that he runs up ramps while Trump tiptoed down one. CNN’s Chris Cillizza wrote a silly piece headlined “Why the Donald Trump-West Point ramp story actually matters.”

But what stood out on the Biden bike bumble was the “fact checkers.” An AP Fact Check quickly proclaimed: “Despite a fabricated screenshot circulating online, The Atlantic hasn’t published an article with a headline describing President Joe Biden’s bike fall as ‘heroism.”

The fake headline was “The Heroism of Biden’s Bike Fall: The President gracefully illustrated an important lesson for all Americans—when we fall, we must get back up.” Radio host Jason Rantz tweeted “AP is fact checking a satire of The Atlantic because they think people would believe it really came from that publication — which is telling.”

It has also been fact-checked and verified by Reuters. The typography is exactly the same as the magazine’s, so it would be easy for Biden critics to share and enjoy it.

Twitter Moments featured Reuters and Snopes, with a slightly different view of the Biden bicycle fall. Jen Psaki tweets were made up by the fakers. One parody tweet reads: “President Biden might need kneepads for riding his bike, but the last guy needed kneepads for visiting the Kremlin.” The second tweet says: “Yes, president Biden fell on his bike. To Donald Trump: a bike is something you ride when you have physical strength to lift your own knees.”

If you look carefully enough, Reuters pointed out that it was not Psaki’s actual Twitter handle and in the bottom-right corner it says “Parody by Back Rub.” So if you retweeted it, you’re not a careful reader. PolitiFact also filed a “Pants On Fire” article on the parody.

The “fact checkers” lunge to clear up these satires around Biden. Ron DeSantis, however, is not a target.

RedState Sister Toldjah pointed out that Stephen Colbert, satirist, lied about a DeSantis press conferences held from January 31st 2022. The CBS late-night host implied DeSantis refused to condemn a gaggle of  “about 20″ neo-Nazis quacking in Orlando. Colbert referenced an Orlando Sentinel story, but just the words “Gov. Ron DeSantis remained silent.” The actual sentence said he was silent “until Monday afternoon when he responded to a question about the rallies with a tirade against his political enemies.”

Colbert then showed a 12-second video clip of this presser where the governor said he wouldn’t be smeared by Democrats. He insisted DeSantis didn’t have the courage to condemn the neo-Nazis. Again, the Orlando newspaper quoted DeSantis calling them “some jackasses doing this on the street” and said they’d be held accountable by law enforcement.

DeSantis went on to boast of having signed “the strongest antisemitism bill in the country” and denounced the Democrats for welcoming antisemites like Rep. Ilhan Omar.

However, there weren’t any fact checks. There was no AP or Reuters, Snopes and PolitiFact. Twitter did not have anything to highlight. The Left-leaning Satirists have the right to smear DeSantis like a cowardly lion among neo Nazis. This is how the game works. 

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