WASHINGTON POST FACT CHECKERS CORRECT BIDEN, GENTLY

[PeteS in CA]

WASHINGTON POST FACT CHECKERS CORRECT BIDEN, GENTLY

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/03/washington-post-fact-checkers-correct-biden-gently.php

The fact checkers at the Washington Post are biased, but not corrupt. They will fact check and correct false statements by Democrats.

But when it comes to rating the false statements — a highly subjective exercise — they are more forgiving of Democrats. They tend to go light on the number of “Pinocchios” they award Dems, compared to Republicans. And it’s my impression that they are more inclined to fact check statements by Republicans than those of Democrats.

Which brings us to Joe Biden’s performance at yesterday’s press conference. Glenn Kessler, the Post’s lead fact checker, spared Biden from the awarding of Pinocchios. However, he did identify a series of false statements by Biden.

They included the following (with Kessler’s response):

Biden – To hear them [Republicans] complain when they passed a close to $2 trillion Trump tax cut, 83 percent going to the top 1 percent.

Kessler – Biden uses a misleading Democratic talking point that has often earned Two Pinocchios. The nonpartisan Tax Policy Center estimated that initially more than 80 percent of taxpayers would get a tax cut, with less than 5 percent getting a tax increase. The top 1 percent received 20.5 percent of the tax cut in 2018. . . .

Biden – I also set a goal before I took office, of getting the majority of schools in K through 8 fully open in the first 100 days. Now, thanks to the enormous amount of work done by our administration, educators, parents, local, state education officials and leaders, a recent Department of Education survey shows that nearly half of the K-through-8 schools are open now, full time, five days a week for in-person learning.

Kessler – Biden is referring to a survey, released Wednesday, that surveyed schools on the situation in January, just as Biden took office. So the numbers do not reflect anything that has happened on Biden’s watch. Moreover, Biden overstated what the survey found. . . .

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This is Washington Post fact checking in a nutshell. The Post will, on occasion, point to errors by politicians it favors. But when it does , the Post will almost always pull its punches.

My emphasis in the final paragraph.

[PeteS in CA]

WaPo Fact Check: Yep, Biden Told Whoppers, Even With Cheat Sheets

https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2021/03/26/wapo-fact-check-yep-biden-told-whoppers-even-cheat-sheets/

Perhaps those who predicted a four-year hiatus in media fact checks on the White House should take heart in this game effort from the Washington Post. After yesterday’s press conference, their fact-check team dissected Joe Biden’s statements and found that he “made a number of incorrect statements or made claims that lacked important context.” Not only did they refute several of them, they included most of those rebuttals in this video posted last night.
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This includes one of the most egregious of the lies Biden offered — the idea that Donald Trump deliberately chose to starve children to death at the border rather than let them in:

“Well, look, the idea that I’m going to say, which I would never do, that if an unaccompanied child ends up at the border, we’re just going to let them starve to death and stay on the other side — no previous administration did that either, except Trump.”

Biden claimed, without apparent evidence, that children “starved to death” in Mexico under President Donald Trump’s 2019 policy allowing border officers to return non-Mexican asylum seekers to locations in Mexico as their claims are adjudicated in immigration courts. Asked for evidence of such deaths, a White House official referred to reports of “widely reported treacherous conditions at camps along the border on the Mexican side that formed as a result of the Trump Administration’s use of the Migrant Protection Protocol, more commonly known as ‘Remain in Mexico.’”
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These reports are certainly compelling, but none documented the deaths of children by starvation. Nevertheless, a 2020 report by Physicians for Human Rights described cases of asylum seekers being dismembered or tortured as they waited in Mexico.

The lie goes deeper than that. No one in the Trump administration, including Trump himself, ever said that the point of the policy or the intent of the administration was to “let them starve to death.” The point of the policy was to remove the very large incentive of entering the US while asylum claims processed, an incentive that drives mass migrations to the border. And we are seeing what happened when Biden restored that incentive too — mass migration, human and drug trafficking, and more.

That LIEden used indexed "cheat sheets" means at least two things:

1. "Questions" were known and cherrypicked in advance.

2. The many lies LIEden told were scripted beforehand.