President Donald Trump’s handle to the United Nations Common Meeting was the newest instance of how our “unbiased fact-checkers” are higher outlined as Democrat-dependent messaging machines. Their choice bias is clear.
PolitiFact was live-blogging and throwing “Pants on Fireplace” rulings on their X account. For instance, Trump claimed we have been shedding 300,000 People to fentanyl, which is exaggerated. Trump can’t say grocery costs are down. They’re up 2.7% in 2025.
CNN’s Daniel Dale was on velocity dial from Canada for a televised pounce. Like the opposite “independents,” Dale couldn’t stand Trump taking credit score for ending an inventory of wars, after which comes the nitpicking that a few of these have been disputes, not scorching wars, and non permanent ceasefires could possibly be non permanent. CNN’s “Details First” web site is devoted to attacking Trump.
One might definitely argue that an American president making a speech on the United Nations is a information occasion price fact-checking. But it surely’s all within the concentrating on. Attempt to bear in mind Dale or PolitiFact concerning President Joe Biden’s speech to the U.N. final yr.
Kamala Harris is now occurring a e-book tour. Does anybody suppose the “fact-checkers” will become involved? On “The Rachel Maddow Present,” Harris uncorked a whopper about Trump: “I known as him at my speech on the Ellipse a tyrant. We used to match the energy of our democracy to communist dictators. That’s what we’re coping with proper now in Donald Trump, and these titans of business will not be talking up.”
Trump is a communist dictator? That’s what’s implied. Final yr, PolitiFact threw a “Pants on Fireplace” when Trump known as Harris a communist. We are able to solely guess that they received’t do the identical in reverse. Democrats have routinely known as Trump a “fascist” and evaluate him to Hitler and Mussolini, and PolitiFact and their ilk sit on their palms.
They don’t “fact-check” Maddow and the remainder of the cable-news hotheads. Maddow mentioned to Harris: “I really feel like lots of the defenses that we tried to construct up upfront of any such a type of would-be authoritarian takeover have been about warning folks about how severe the risk was.”
You possibly can say “authoritarian playbook” each 30 seconds and know the “fact-checkers” won’t level out that Trump and the Republicans have been democratically elected.
Harris then boosted Jimmy Kimmel: “Because it pertains to the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel. We noticed the facility of the folks over the previous few days, and it spoke volumes, and it moved a call in the correct path.”
Kimmel can lie his face off about Charlie Kirk’s murderer being a Trump supporter, and the “fact-checkers” didn’t ding the “comic.” His coronary heart’s shifting within the “proper path,” so details, schmacts.
Jimmy Kimmel solely has two PolitiFact checks over the 18 years of their existence. “Comedians” get a break once they lie. Trump has 213 “Pants on Fireplace” punishments. Trump’s assaults on liberals are very prone to be tagged as falsehoods, however virtually every thing is taken into account “honest recreation” if you assault Trump.
Tim Graham is director of media evaluation on the Media Analysis Middle and govt editor of the weblog NewsBusters.org.
