US McCaskill: Media Must Stop Fact Checking Joe Biden - Former Senator McCaskill called The New York Times “ridiculous” for a story correcting Biden’s false claims about the economy.

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.”

https://jonathanturley.org/2024/02/24/mccaskill-media-must-stop-fact-checking-joe-biden/ (Archive)

 

[mrt6732]

MSNBC is really taking this advocating for Biden to the next level. All media will have bias but when it gets so hardcore shilling for a man only being kept alive from medications then it's 100 percent on the out of whack meter.

 

[Foxxo]

As a Missourian, I apologize.

She only got her seat because her opponent said that the human body will manufacture Plan B to undo rape pregnancies.

 

[Turtle O'Carolan]

When I saw this, I thought she couldn't possibly be serious. It's too retarded a position to hold.

But she is serious.

Jesus tapdancing Christ what is wrong with these people?

 

[frozen_runner]

The public simply does not need to know such facts when democracy is at stake.

This sums up the absurdity of shitlib evil.

 

[Clown College 2nd Year]

As a Missourian, I apologize.

She only got her seat because her opponent said that the human body will manufacture Plan B to undo rape pregnancies.

Ya I remember that he stole defeat from the jaws of victory with that statement.

When I saw this, I thought she couldn't possibly be serious. It's too retarded a position to hold.

But she is serious.

Jesus tapdancing Christ what is wrong with these people?

Believe me she was an absolute retard through and through sometimes I wish K.C. and St. Louis (who elected her) could get wiped off the map.

 

[Bland Crumbs]

I really do not think these morons know how bad a look this is for them.

In the last few weeks I have witnessed normies starting to critically talk about the media and the dnc.

These politicians and media freaks all live in a bubble and no one is willing to let them know how far from regular people they are in reality.

Just look at Bill Maher getting challenged on anything. He seems unaware of everything or simply says, "That's not true!"

 

[GunCar Gary]

Jesus tapdancing Christ what is wrong with these people?

boomer women are the most entitled and craziest people on the entire planet

 

[oh no its pipkun]

the article source is some shitty blogger that links his own fucking articles instead of a source.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2024/02/22/claire_mccaskill_it_is_ridiculous_that_the_new_york_times_fact-checks_president_biden.html

This link has a video of the segment.

 

[DoomsdayElite]

I really do not think these morons know how bad a look this is for them.

In the last few weeks I have witnessed normies starting to critically talk about the media and the dnc.

These politicians and media freaks all live in a bubble and no one is willing to let them know how far from regular people they are in reality.

Just look at Bill Maher getting challenged on anything. He seems unaware of everything or simply says, "That's not true!"

They can't admit that they lied through their fucking teeth, for years. Their programming prohibits that, as do their corporate handlers. So they double down.

 

[Harbinger of Kali Yuga]

chilling overtures because when politicians talk like this, they're sending a message to the people who run the newspapers to watch out

there's multiple ways to control the press through incentives

refuse to grant interviews to journalists of that paper, stripping press access, that sort of thing

but worst of all is that they've been pushing the "we need to protect from fake news" narrative for awhile now, and I feel like they're really trying to figure out how to control public messaging even though legal methods if they have to

the less certain the left is of their grip, the more draconian they are going to get.

 

[JosephStalin]

This bitch lives in a state of perpetual cranial-rectal inversion.

It's the duty of a press and of the people to fact-check what elected officials say.

In this case, the President has been publicly described as a 'well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory'. If this isn't a case for constant fact-checking, don't know what would be.

Shit like this turns people away from the mainstream media and toward other sources of news/information, which the wise person does anyway.

 

[Kiwi Lime Pie]

I really do not think these morons know how bad a look this is for them.

In the last few weeks I have witnessed normies starting to critically talk about the media and the dnc.

This is yet another example of "It's okay only when we do it." When Trump was in office, the liberals and the media stumbled over themselves to be the first to comment about every little slip up from the president. It was to the point they'd be all "OMG! Trump said it was Tuesday when it's really Wednesday. He's unfit for office!"

Being public figures, politicians need to understand their behavior will be scrutinized - some of it is deserved and some isn't. Partisan criticism and partisan white-knighting, however, doesn't help and can't run off the average normie who might end up wondering what's being hidden and what ulterior motives are taking place behind the scenes.

Shit like this turns people away from the mainstream media and toward other sources of news/information, which the wise person does anyway.

Most normies I know think both Trump and Biden are too old and forgetful to be running again. So, the media spin isn't working except for those whose partisan allegiances are already so strong they believe anything their media of choice says.

 

[ZazietheBeast]

Replace Biden with Trump and watch as the article goes from "Must stop fact checking" to "Keep on fact-checking". Journos deserve only the best of Canadian Healthcare.

 

[Absolutego]

chilling overtures because when politicians talk like this, they're sending a message to the people who run the newspapers to watch out

there's multiple ways to control the press through incentives

refuse to grant interviews to journalists of that paper, stripping press access, that sort of thing

but worst of all is that they've been pushing the "we need to protect from fake news" narrative for awhile now, and I feel like they're really trying to figure out how to control public messaging even though legal methods if they have to

the less certain the left is of their grip, the more draconian they are going to get.

This admin already brought the WH press core into a room to browbeat them over bad coverage more than a year ago now. Said press core is now pretending like Biden being a demented old fuck is novel news worthy of attention.
The DNC is realizing that the donor class responsible for funding their campaigns and underwriting their positive media coverage has given up on them after historic attempts to pretend otherwise and placate the dementia patient in chief, and they have no other card to play besides complaining about the media being "hostile".

 

[Harbinger of Kali Yuga]

This admin already brought the WH press core into a room to browbeat them over bad coverage more than a year ago now. Said press core is now pretending like Biden being a demented old fuck is novel news worthy of attention.
The DNC is realizing that the donor class responsible for funding their campaigns and underwriting their positive media coverage has given up on them after historic attempts to pretend otherwise and placate the dementia patient in chief, and they have no other card to play besides complaining about the media being "hostile".

I think it's only because a good portion are worried that Biden's old age and dementia will lose him the election to Trump. I'm sure many people are very afraid Biden will forget where he is on stage in a debate against Trump--then it's all fucking over for them.

 

[Absolutego]

I think it's only because a good portion are worried that Biden's old age and dementia will lose him the election to Trump. I'm sure many people are very afraid Biden will forget where he is on stage in a debate against Trump--then it's all fucking over for them.

I don't think either party is expecting actual debates to happen this fall tbh. They got away with just the one in 2020, it was a shitshow, and maybe the lesson they took away from that is they don't actually need the mutual press conference to front the media some scrip debates anymore.

 

[Harbinger of Kali Yuga]

I don't think either party is expecting actual debates to happen this fall tbh. They got away with just the one in 2020, it was a shitshow, and maybe the lesson they took away from that is they don't actually need the mutual press conference to front the media some scrip debates anymore.

Fuck, you're right, and that's an even further and rapid devolution of our political system.

for awhile the democrats have appeared to be trying to set up a one-party state by china-style trying to equate "democracy" and the "democratic party"

that said they're very worried about biden flubbing it bigly in public

 

[TowinKarz]

Knock it off with the truth! We already told you we can patch that post-release! The only thing that matters is getting this shitty-ass Biden 2 game out on schedule for the stakeholders!

 

[Cougar Pump]

The retarded part of this is that there's a very simple solution for Biden here - Come forward and announce that you don't feel you can serve an additional 4 years as president, and step aside for another Dem candidate to go forwards rather than the default incumbent. Biden actually does seem like one of those rare politicians that is capable of putting what they see as the best thing for the country above personal gain, similar to Pence.