The week in whoppers: Biden’s ‘intimidation’ nonsense, the NYT’s biased scaremongering and more
November 3, 2022
President Biden claimed that there has been a rise in voter intimidation without providing any evidence.
Diary of disturbing disinformation and dangerous delusions
This claim:
“Crime is not on the rise. It’s actually going down.”
— Joy Behar, Tuesday
The View’s Joy Behar said that crime is actually decreasing in cities.
We say: With elections near, the left’s desperate to get voters to ignore crime they see with their own eyes. “The View’s” Joy Behar says she “looked it up” and found murders in major cities down 4%. Which proves nothing: As a report from the Major Cities Chiefs Association found, robberies through June 30 this year rose 13%, aggravated assaults 2.6%. And murders were up 50% vs. 2019. (In NYC, overall crime’s up 30% this year.) Sorry, but voters’ eyes aren’t lying.
This warning:
“[There’s been a] dangerous rise . . . in voter intimidation.”
— President Biden, Wednesday
We say: President Biden warned of rising voter “intimidation” no less than nine times in his Wednesday speech but offered absolutely no evidence to back it up. Why? Because there isn’t any. Yes, rhetoric (from both the left and right) can get ugly, and someone, somewhere, might’ve threatened some voter. But turnout this year is already breaking records.
This story:
The New York Times wrote that Republicans are looking to make changes to Social Security and Medicare.— The New York Times, Tuesday
We say: The Times is doing its part to help Democrats scare voters into thinking GOPers will cut Social Security and Medicare. President Biden, for example, made the absurd claim that Republicans “want to take [Social Security] away.” Yet the Times provided few quotes or other evidence the GOP would do anything even close to that. Instead, it mostly quoted Democrats who merely made that charge.
This tweet:
We say: Team Biden will try anything to deceive voters. Laws actually passed under President Richard Nixon
tied Social Security payments to inflation, which (thanks to Democrats)
has soared, eroding incomes and savings. Indeed, pushback on the tweet
was so great, eventually the White House had to delete it.
1 comment:
The Democrat-Socialists REFUSE to believe that they are wrong. Therefore they believe that the people who do not vote for them are too stupid to understand how wonderful they are. The problem is they often TELL the people that they are too stupid to understand their massive degree of wonderfulness. People who really are stupid do not like to be told they are stupid. People who are in fact NOT stupid also do not like to be told they are stupid. It is probably not a winning play. We will, however, find out in a few days (though it didn't work so well for Hillary six years ago).
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