MSNBC contributor and former Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill has been one of the most vocal voices attacking critics of Joe Biden and opposing any investigations into his family or his policies. She attacked journalists and others who spoke in favor of free speech, calling them “Putin apologists” and Putin lovers. Now she is lashing out at the media for fact checking Joe Biden’s false claims . . . any false claims.
McCaskill called The New York Times “ridiculous” for a story correcting Biden’s false claims about the economy. She warned the media that they are only helping Trump by pointing out Biden’s false or misleading claims:
“What everyone says when you travel, ‘Well, you wouldn’t elect him again, would you? Hasn’t the country learned? You wouldn’t ever give this guy power again, would you? Tell us that he’s not going to be re-elected. Please, tell us you’ve learned your lesson.’ So The only blemish on the great country of America worldwide is, in fact, Donald Trump.”
She then added,
“Can I make a suggestion? I move that every newspaper in America quits doing any fact checks on Joe Biden until they fact check Donald Trump every morning on the front page. It is ridiculous that The New York Times fact check Joe Biden on something. I mean, he vomits lies, Trump vomits lies. And he, every day over and over and over again. And it’s just ridiculous that The New York Times is doing a fact check on Biden while they let Trump- they’re numb to the torrent of lies coming out of Trump’s mouth.”
It is that easy. Just stop fact checking. Of course, the media has always fact checked Trump with a certain glee. Such fact checks are a good thing and Trump has been legitimately criticized for many claims. However, McCaskill and others believe that the media must fall in line with the effort to reelect Biden.
The Washington Post previously gave Biden a rare “bottomless Pinocchio” for his false claims. According to McCaskill, that must stop at least until after the election. The public simply does not need to know such facts when democracy is at stake. It appears that ignorance is bliss when it comes to politics.
Of course, it was Benjamin Franklin who said “being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.”
Fear is a great motivator for lying and the fear of a Trump win is terrifying to those who hold lies as the basis of their truth.. Thankfully McCaskill is now only on MSNBC! However, we need some real changes – Voter ID cards! A complete check of who is dead or alive before sending absentee ballots and also cameras on all the voting boxes left on the streets for easy pickings! Guess who doesn’t support this?
Also, there is a difference between a lie and an exaggeration to make a point. Both Trump and Biden need to know the difference. But there is a great deal at stake. When you want to imprison people – body and soul – to justify hate, we are all losers. Journalists need to be held accountable – certainly – but what is wrong with the 30+% of the people who really thing Biden is doing a great job?! Perhaps Hillary was right about having a reeducation program — just done by people who would put her as their first attendee.
If you have a good voter ID system – it is irrelevant how crappy the voter registration databases are.
In fact you can dispense with them entirely.
Require that to vote, you show up in person with valid government issued photo ID that establishes your citizenship and your residence in the precinct you are voting.
Here is how the political left fact checks someone from the political right and yes that included President Trump:
Here is how the political left fact checks someone from the political left, and yes that included President Biden:
In other words; only Republicans lie, Democrats are pure as the driven snow.
Here is how modern Democrats seem to be thinking; the truth is what we say the truth is, a lie is what we say a lie is and any opposition to these stated opinions is fascism, racist, white supremacy, authoritarian, anti-democracy, immoral, evil, etc, etc.
The Democrats double standard is pure political persecution and about as immoral as you can get. The Democrats are morally bankrupt.
Steve Witherspoon said: “Here is how the political left fact checks someone from the political right and yes that included President Trump”
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And that is undoubtedly exactly how ChapGPT and (Google’s) Gemini AI are being programmed (“taught”). Scary.
When they have nothing else over at MSNBC they can always go back to the Putin Puppet accusation. The thirty three percent of Americans who still believe the Russia Hoax are really digging it as they sit hypnotized watching MSNBC. After all, Big Brother is looking out for you. You can just imaging all heads nodding in agreement.
Boycott New York
Any non-liberal that visits NY and gives them their money is doing a grave disservice to the cause of freedom. Make them pay!
We did, three years ago when the chants of the BLM crowd in Brooklyn became a daily protest march, we sold our condo on J Street and moved to Northern New York. We saw the downfall of NYC area coming and wanted no part of it.
whimsicalmama says: “We did (leave NYC)”
Good for you, but from what I’ve seen, you only bought some time, and probably not very much. I lived in Delaware County over 40 years ago, and it was then about as conservative an area as you were likely to find anywhere. Not even close any more, from what I’ve read. NTM that NY State government has itself been a socialist nightmare since before I moved there, and had no compunctions about running roughshod over lower branches such as counties.
You are correct in that but we are both 73 and I had family in The North Country so we chose this rather than moving to some place where we had no family.
We hate that we are still within the grips of hochul and the rats nest that is NYC run by that lizard king schumer (that is what my husband calls him and he also says that the fact that schumer is a Jew makes him ashamed to share that heritage with him). If we could just utilize a small thermonuclear device to send the greater NYC area out into the mid Atlantic we would all be much better for the fact.
IQs were never a priority
And they tried to tell you that they never censored American citizens. At first they tried to hide it but now they come right out and say it. This is not just the opinion of one woman but it has been proven that it is the opinion of all Democratic politicians. If you think they are trying to protect Democracy and your freedom I’ve got a nice bridge that I will sell you for cheap.
The media should not be fact checking. It should be telling the truth.
Fact Checking has all to often become a synonym for lying.
Regardless, the media needs to work on its own credibility – without regard for politics.
This idiotic left wing not claim that we should shade or hide the truth because of some claim regarding who it might benefit is garbage.
If the Truth benefits Putin – that so be it.
If that is really the case maybe you should consider who the real good guys and bad guys are, because if you are the one afraid of the truth – YOU are the bad guy.
John Say says: “The media should not be fact checking. It should be telling the truth.”
The “left:” media has their dedicated brainwashed audience, and (to a lesser extent, I would hope) so does the “right”. I’m convinced that left media cares nothing about what you or I call “credibility”, which I think is also true of much (again, hopefully less so) of the right. For “right” media example of what I’m talking about, I give you The Murdochs aka News Corp. NC is allegedly a “right-leaning” media holding company. But they have their grubby paws in Dow Jones & co (such outlets as Market Watch and Barrons, financial-focused media that are decidely left, also the Wall St Journal, which is leaning further left all the time). I suspect the intention of the editorial boards at those outlets is to sleathily infect unsuspecting readers looking for financial news with their particular leftist point of view. The left media has no incentive, financial or otherwise, to care anything about truth, and neither do investors/owners like the Murdochs, who, I’m convinced, don’t give a rat’s ass if anything they publish bears the slightest congruence with actual truth, so long as the money keeps rolling in.
Give Ukraine back their nukes. Ends war.
Send 82nd abn to Gaza , extract non combatants. Let Israel level and rebuild.
Implore House to raise HR2 issue,
Close the border.
Tell all buyers of Iran , Russia , oil,
We will impose Trump tariffs ,
Creates world peace.
McCaskill demonstrates why she is a FORMER Senator.
Funny how when Trump was President, if you brought up Obama it was ‘whataboutism’ and “We’re not talking about the last guy, we’re dealing with who’s in office right now”, but now that it’s Biden as President, it’s “Don’t point out anything about the guy who’s in there now, it’s all about the the other guy.” But then, double standards are pretty much the standard for a lot of people these days.
Why the big push in blue states to legalize dope or their efforts to keep the dope dealers in business? Because a person would have to be stoned to believe any of this bovine excrement. They are counting on that there are just enough constituents who are just as clueless as our current President.
EM: “Why the big push in blue states to legalize dope….?”
Dopes vote Dem. They would do lobotomies if they could…sure to increase the Dem vote. Of course dead people are the best, they massively vote Dem and the ad budget targeting them is economical.
“Such fact checks are a good thing and Trump…” blah blah blah. “Fact checks” are commonly done by zealots who couldn’t care less about truthfulness. “The truth be damned” is their underlying mantra. “Hear MY TRUTH, I know EVERYTHING!” Ok, sure…
Dear Prof Turley,
To fact-check or not to fact-check. Is that the question?
At this point, I wouldn’t let the NYT check my baggage, much less a ‘fact’. Ditto for all the other fact-checkers out there roaming the media landscape. In fact, at this point, I would much prefer All media ‘fact-checkers’ just print the facts, and I will check them. .. especially the NYT>. .. they owe me a few.
Now, lets all hope another deeply divisive and polarizing Biden v Trump Redux is not the only alternative 2024 horizon! .. Idk if the world will tolerate it.
*”.. . because the difference between our urinal-caked subways and [Russia’s] candelabra beautiful subways is literally the price of freedom” ~ Jon Stewart, TDS (aka The Daily Show.)
Obviously Ms McCaskill is trying to destroy democracy. Is there any other conclusion one could draw when democracy is based upon the will of the citizenry and she wants to deprive citizens of the very information they need to make a judgement? Will all other Democrats condemn such anti democratic calls for censorship or do they by their silence (which we know is violence) support anti democratic speech? Will the voters support such an attack upon our very democracy?
Fear is a great motivator for lying and the fear of a Trump win is terrifying to those who hold lies as the basis of their truth.. Thankfully McCaskill is now only on MSNBC! However, we need some real changes – Voter ID cards! A complete check of who is dead or alive before sending absentee ballots and also cameras on all the voting boxes left on the streets for easy pickings! Guess who doesn’t support this?
Also, there is a difference between a lie and an exaggeration to make a point. Both Trump and Biden need to know the difference. But there is a great deal at stake. When you want to imprison people – body and soul – to justify hate, we are all losers. Journalists need to be held accountable – certainly – but what is wrong with the 30+% of the people who really thing Biden is doing a great job?! Perhaps Hillary was right about having a reeducation program — just done by people who would put her as their first attendee.
After seeing how the DOJ, FBI, CIA and Homeland Security operate, and the surveillance capabilities that they have, could it be that the Mainstream Media, Tech company leaders, corporate leaders, senators, congressman and judges are being extorted or the threat of being extorted. Aside from the money, how else can a sane person explain their behavior?
The thing that amazes me is that they have to invent charges against Donald Trump.
Quit saying that the Emperor is wearing no clothes! You’re embarrassing him!
Floyd, iIsn’t that what the female secret service agents are complaining about Biden?
Does anyone with a grain of commonsense actually think (foreign concept to our Lefties) Joe Biden is physically and mentally competent to serve as President for an additional year….much less five more years?
He is a walking dead man at his age already and any chance of him lasting through another term in office is simply dreaming and completely ignoring reality.
So…vote for Biden/Harris and you are voting for Harris for President…..that thought alone should sober up the drunkest Souse.
The Democrats owe it to the Country to dump both Biden and Harris.
If they do not….then out is up to the People to do that for them.
If you think Trump is a bad choice and Biden or Harris are a better choice…..you really do need to take a very long look in a mirror and try to figure out what is wrong with that image.
Ralph,
“So…vote for Biden/Harris and you are voting for Harris for President…..that thought alone should sober up the drunkest Souse.”
Thank you for the laugh.
But almost having hot tea come out of my nose was not a pleasant experience.
MSNBC contributor and former Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill is one of the Democrats faithful little cattle dogs, snipping at anyone who strays from the herd (and that’s with respect to cattle dogs)……
The whole “Putin supporter” argument is pure McCarthyism with the only difference being that the Soviets were an existential threat to freedom around the world, the Soviets actually wanted to dominate the world, the Soviets DID get into our government, our schools, Hollywood while the Russians are a weak, third world nation with energy and nukes. The Russians can’t take over Ukraine while the Soviets took over Poland, East Germany, Hungary, Ukraine, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and other peoples.
BAck then the left LOVED the SOviets, they marched against us arming ourselves, against us getting nuclear energy, against us defending nations all as they defended the Soviets from any criticism. Today the left hates Russia as a dodge so they can now love the CCP. Notice there are no marches against China’s energy programs, no marches against China’s slave labor camps, no marches against China child labor and no marches against China BEING THE BIGGEST SUPPORTER OF RUSSIA (Irony).
HullBobby,
Dont forget! Who is one of Biden’s biggest fans?
Putin!
Putin endorsed Biden for president!
Everywhere you look for REAL Russians – you find democrats.
Only mythical Russians associate with Trump
John Say,
Funny thing is Democrats will declare how Russia is going to interfere with our elections!
Can you really think of anyone who is still undecided? Or that there is such a large mass of undecided voters that could be swayed?
Dang near everyone I know already knows who they are voting for.
Upstate, wait about six months for AI to involve itself in politics actively. That is likely to cause great confusion as people start to believe what AI creates, including AI providing proof and confirmation of lies.
And tell me just how many “voters” realize that by endorsing biden all Putin is saying is that he really would rather deal with the dementia patient than with the MAGA dynamo who will push all of Putin’s buttons and end the war in Ukraine – one way or another. Just how brainwashed/braindead is the average voter?
A interesting read by Victor Davis Hanson,
Blue Laws for Red Citizens
https://victorhanson.com/blue-laws-for-red-citizens/
Upstate, VDH is always clear, cogent, on point and RIGHT, thanks for the link.
What we are seeing with the lawfare is the scariest thing to ever happen to free elections in our country.
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