A Washington Post fact-checker ruled Thursday that Joe Biden hadn’t lied when he said he supported a fracking ban during Sunday’s Democratic presidential debate. Rather, Biden had simply “described his fracking stance inaccurately.”
The Post gave Biden “Zero Pinocchios” for saying during the most recent Democratic debate that he opposed fracking entirely.
Instead, the paper pointed to the Biden campaign’s explanation that the candidate had “misspoken” and that “his position was the same as ever,” opposing fracking only on public lands.
Meanwhile, the Post criticized those who quoted Biden’s remarks verbatim. “Critics pounced,” the fact-checker wrote.
“Republican operatives cut a short video of Biden’s remarks, to use as a cudgel in races against moderate House Democrats. Sanders supporters accused Biden of misleading voters about his policy, which doesn’t ban fracking outright, as Sanders would.”
During Sunday’s debate, Sanders said that he was pushing for a ban on future fracking. “So am I,” Biden responded.
“Well, I’m not sure your proposal does that,” Sanders replied. Later, the Vermont senator said, “You cannot continue, as I understand, Joe believes, to continue fracking.”
“No more—no new fracking,” Biden said in response.
“The Trump campaign also used a Biden video snippet from the debate in a tweet claiming he would ‘ban fracking,'” the Post complained. “Right-wing media outlets including the Washington Free Beacon, the Daily Caller and Fox News all reported on Biden’s remarks as though he had adopted a tougher line.”
The Free Beacon article quoting Biden’s remarks, to which the Post did not link, covered Biden’s statement during the debate that there’d be “no more drilling” under his administration and only mentioned the fracking comments as an aside.
The Free Beacon accurately wrote that “Biden, confronted by Sanders for not taking dramatic enough steps to combat climate change, also said there would be no ‘new fracking’ and ‘not another coal plant will be built’ under his administration.”
Biden’s drilling comments, another instance of the candidate “misspeaking” in a way that made his environmental platform more palatable to his party’s left-wing base, was not acknowledged in the Post fact-check.
Biden previously said he “misspoke,” avoiding a bad rating from the Post fact-checker, after he was caught falsely claiming on two separate occasions that he opposed the Iraq war from the moment it started.
“Regular readers know that we withhold Pinocchios when a politician admits error. Biden was on his way to Four Pinocchios until his staff acknowledged that he misspoke,” the Post wrote. “So we will leave this unrated and let readers make their own decision.”
Read more at Free Beacon
The Washington Compost should consiter awarding Bean Brain Biden a few Pinocchio’s
Biden will continue to miss peak and more frequently. His faculties are not likely to improve.
How long will the media be willing to wipe up after him? I’ll bet until he loses in November.
Washington Post has fact checkers? No way!
December 22, 2019 Biden Confirms He’d Sacrifice Thousands of Blue-Collar Jobs for Greener Economy if Needed
At last weeks Democratic Party 2020 debate current frontrunner and former Vice President Joe Biden was asked if he’d be willing to sacrifice thousands of high paying blue collar jobs for a greener economy he, without hesitation, said yes.
https://thefederalistpapers.org/opinion/biden-confirms-sacrifice-thousands-blue-collar-jobs-greener-economy
If President Trump had said something inconsistent with his stance, the media would amply this into a huge bare faced lie. There would be headlines for days about it. Yet, when Biden does it, it is just a “misspoke.” This one incident shows how extreme the media bias is.
Another example of MSM contempt and why most people don’t trust them.
Its great when the media will just absolutely bend over backward for you like this.
Biden sounds like he fell out of a tree and landed on his head once too often i suggest he got home and take a rest in a padded cell and straight jacket