Snopes.com Beclowns Itself Again With Another ‘True But False’ Fact Check of Biden’s Free Crack Pipe Program – Opinion

The stormtroopers in the left’s assault of free speech and diversity of opinion are the so-called “fact-checkers.” These are not-very-bright failed journalists who have congregated in organizations under the “Internation Fact Check Network” (yes, these clowns now have their own trade organization) and exist solely to patrol the internet and make stupid, self-beclowning evaluations of anything that doesn’t follow the progressive narrative.

Snopes.com is without doubt the worst operation in fact-checking grift. Snopes.com was once an important internet space. Snopes used to run from the internet, trying to find the amusing stories and fake news that were being generated in those days. Snopes was made a partisan hitman by the Trump administration.

They have found that AOC’s claim that she was in personal danger on January 6 was not true but reporting it as not true was “mostly false.” They’ve gone to extraordinary lengths to declare as false the various critiques of the maladministration of US COVID response by Dr. Anthony Fauci. They also covered Joey SoftServe’s rudely checked watch while returning bodies to Afghanistan for US military personnel. And who can forget this classic fact check: CODE RED: Joe Biden: “My Butt’s Been Wiped” is “Unproven” According to Snopes? There are many more, however the following is the most important. pièce de résistance was Snopes’s vendetta against the parody site BabylonBee.com. Snopes’ writers searched the pages of Babylon Bee and picked out unmistakable parody stories. (See Snopes Just Fact-Checked Babylon Bee Again, This Time It Crossed The Line).

We have collected some Snopes stories.

Then they go back to it.

On Monday, the story broke in several outlets that the Biden Department of Health and Human Services was giving grants to organizations to provide safe, effective, and sanitary crack pipes to drug users (You Can’t Make This Up. Biden’s HHS to Fund Crack Pipes, Needles, and “Harm Reduction” Vending Machines), This had the difficult-to-achieve effect of making the Biden White House look more ridiculous and incompetent than it might be. It is difficult to convey that message. The staff at Snopes was quick to get involved.

Right-leaning outlets claimed that in February 2022 the Biden Administration planned to distribute crack pipes as part of its efforts to improve racial equity.

For example, on Feb. 7, JustTheNews.com published an article with the headline “Biden administration funding crack pipe distribution, saying it’s needed for racial equity.”

For its part, ChicksOnTheRight.com went with the headline “Biden Admin Spending $30M To Give Crack Pipes, Drug Kits To Addicts For ‘Advancing Racial Equity’” and wrote:

The Biden Administration is going to spend $30 million taxpayer dollars on free crack pipes and drug use kits for minority demographic drug addicts, in an effort to support Biden’s executive order on “advancing racial equity.” I wish I were joking. It’s true. But I just couldn’t make this stuff up if I tried.

Meanwhile, The Blaze wrote:

The Biden administration will soon fund the distribution of crack pipes to drug addicts in underserved communities for the purpose of “advancing racial equity,” the Washington Free Beacon reported.

These articles collectively gave the impression that readers were being presented a false and misleading picture of a grant to reduce substance abuse harms. This grant was overseen by Biden’s administration in 2022. We are issuing a rating of “Mostly False.”

The so-called “fact check” goes on to point out that there is much more than crack pipes:

It’s important to note that safe smoking kits typically consist of several other items, including: a rubber mouthpieces for glass pipes, in order to prevent burns and cuts; brass screens, in order to filter out potentially harmful contaminants or debris; as well as disinfectant wipes.

What is the point of all this?

Snopes’ critique is so dishonest, however, that it makes one wonder if he really meant it.

None of these articles implied or claimed that crack pipes are the only item in the program. Snopes cites the JustTheNews Link as an example. It states:

The $30 million is to be allocated over the next three years, $10 million each year, for the Harm Reduction Program Grant, which is designed “to support community-based overdose prevention programs, syringe services programs, and other harm reduction services.”

Snopes managed to ignore this because it would not fit with their role as narrative police, and they seem immune to the irony of them ruling an article “mostly false” for including the same information as the fact check.

The government subsidizing crackpipes is absurd. Most people could reasonably believe this. Snopes believes that any story that highlights Snopes’s views is false. It doesn’t. Really.