So-called fact-checkers have become infamous over the last decade or so for being just as bad if not worse than their media colleagues in playing favorites and displaying overt bias when it comes to checking (and not checking) the claims of public officials.
CNN‘s Daniel Dale is arguably the worst of the bunch, with his infamous declaration during a 2020 CNN town hall featuring Joe Biden that Biden was fact-checking Donald Trump by stringing together a few coherent sentences taking the cake:
There was also this shameful moment from a 2020 debate between Biden and Donald Trump, where we learned that while Biden was simply “imperfect” from a “fact-checking perspective” Trump was a “serial liar”:
Back to the present day, Dale appeared on his network Thursday night after Vice President Kamala Harris’ acceptance speech at the Democrat National Convention.
During the segment, he was asked about some of the claims Harris made. Laughably, he declared that “there weren’t a lot of fact-checkable claims tonight, period” before suggesting that some of them merely lacked context and that because they were Harris’ “predictions” he couldn’t really fact-check them:
Jake, there weren’t a lot of fact-checkable claims tonight, period. But let’s look at some comments Vice President Harris made in her big speech. First, this claim about former President Donald Trump and abortion.[…]This is kind of cleverly flamed- framed, Jake, as a prediction which I cannot definitively fact check, but VP Harris at least left out some important context here. What she did not explain is that Trump has either not taken those positions during this campaign, or explicitly rejected those positions.[…]Now let’s play something Vice President Harris said about the Supreme Court’s decision on presidential immunity.HARRIS: Consider. Consider the power he will have, especially after the United States Supreme Court just ruled that he would be immune from criminal prosecution. Just imagine Donald Trump with no guard rails.DALE: I call- I call this a “needs context” too, Jake. It’s fair for Vice President Harris to generally warn that the Supreme Court ruling gave presidents more power, but it did not grant Trump or anyone else total immunity from criminal prosecution.
So he can’t “definitively fact check” claims Harris made about Trump’s abortion position, which Dale essentially later said were not true, and “the Supreme Court ruling gave presidents more power” (newsflash: it didn’t).
Watch:
While Harris’ speech was a pretty forgettable one in my opinion, one other thing that deserved fact-checking but didn’t get it was her insane claim that Trump “sent an armed mob to the U.S. Capitol” on January 6, 2021.
It’s simply not true, but because the media, like Democrats, have such a vested interest in keeping J6 in the spotlight going into the fall campaign season, it doesn’t get scrutinized.
In any event, thanks to Daniel Dale for reminding us once again that when it comes to covering up for Democrats, few are so obvious about it as KNN CNN.
— Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym “Sister Toldjah” and can be reached via Twitter. —
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