Written by Tim Graham
Joe Biden may still hold the office of President of the United States, but the media are treating him like he’s anything but a newsmaker. For much of Biden’s presidency, reporters were much more energized to cover the apparent menace of Donald Trump than agitate the officials that were always hiding Biden. Now he seems invisible.
On Dec. 15, the president spoke to a Democratic National Committee holiday party. Any reporter would expect a pep talk, with all the echoes of “we’ll get them next time.”… Continue Reading
Tags: ABC, ABCNews.com, Associated Press, CBS, Cleve R. Wootson, Democratic National Committee, Donald J. Trump, Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Jimmy Carter, Joe Biden, Lie of the Year, Matt Kittle, NBC, NPR, PBS, PolitiFact, Stephen Henriques, The Federalist, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Time, USA Today
Media Watch | David E. Smith | December 28, 2024 5:00 AM | Comments Off on The Invisible President Lies Without Consequence
Written by Tim Graham
Don’t call PolitiFact an “independent fact-checker.” When they assemble to select their “Lie of the Year,” they have singled out Donald Trump in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020 and 2021. No Democrat has been tagged with this dishonor since Trump arrived on the scene.
It was Trump again this year, as PolitiFact tweeted: “A lie marked a town and its residents in the name of campaign rage. It was absurd. It was consequential.… Continue Reading
Tags: Amy Sherman, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Haitian immigrants, Hunter Biden, JD Vance, Joe Biden, Joe Scarborough, Kamala Harris, Lie of the Year, Maria Ramirez Uribe, Marjorie Taylor Greene, PolitiFact, Vilbrun Dorsainvil
Media Watch | David E. Smith | December 20, 2024 6:00 AM | Comments Off on Shocker! PolitiFact Tags Trump For ‘Lie of the Year’ For the 7th Time