I can start this post with part of the opening section of a post from July, 2022:

For decades now, I had held on to the hopeful fiction that at least one factchecking organization, the Annenberg Public Policy Center’s FactCheck.Org, at least could be relied upon to make a good faith effort to do its job objectively. Oh, it has always had a left-leaning bias, make no mistake about that. Many years ago I was at a conference where the keynote speaker was the head of FactCheck.Org. She proudly proclaimed the organization’s “absolute objectivity and non-partisanship.” When it came to time for audience questions, I couldn’t restrain myself: by pure coincidence, I happened to have in my briefcase a recent “factcheck” by the group that outright misstated a fact to minimize negative characterizations of Bill Clinton. I read the relevant passage to the speaker, and asked, “How can you honestly describe that passage as anything other than partisan and biased?” Her response was, as I recall, “Huminahuminahumina...”

But still, I am a sap. I so wanted to believe that there was an exception to my conviction that factcheckers are all Democrat propagandists. And now FactCheck has engaged in an instance of flagrant (and inept) propaganda under the guise of factchecking…

Now fast-forward to the post-Hamas massacre progressive crisis. FactCheck.Org posted a factcheck titles, “Cruz Distorts Facts on Biden Support for Israel.” Writer Eugene Kiely concluded that there is “little support” for Senator Ted Cruz’s claim in a Fox News interview that “literally from within minutes of when this horrific attack began on Oct. 7, the Biden White House has been telling Israel, do not retaliate, cease-fire, stop, do not kill the terrorists.”

Heck, anyone who reads Ethics Alarms could have debunked the debunker. I wrote here,

Hilariously, Biden’s Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, desperately hustling to stem the bleeding after a vicious attack by Iran-sponsored Hamas quickly followed on the heels of his addled boss unfreezing $6 billion for Iran, tweeted a call for a cease-fire, then pulled the tweet after a backlash that any fool could have predicted, and had his own Department disavow his tweet as “unauthorized.” 

The “factcheck” was, in fact, a cover-up. Cruz “pounced” on the FactCheck website, saying,

“I was right that Biden immediately called on Israel not to retaliate against Hamas, because they have to, because it’s true. But, so they can defend Biden, they quote “experts” anyway saying he’s been 100% supportive of Israel. Even that is a lie. In reality, the Biden administration immediately called on Israel not to retaliate on Oct 7, deleted the tweet, supported a ceasefire again the next day, then deleted that tweet too.”

And, again, “huminahumina“..” Keily lamely responded, babbling about how some ‘”experts,” also Democratic Party apologists, supported his analysis.

When the claims start that the next Presidential election was “stolen” by the Democrats, do keep in mind how for four years the public was bombarded with news media spin and half-truths about how everything President Trump did or said was disastrous, and how for the past three years it has twisted logic, facts and truth to cover for or minimize every Biden blunder, failed policy and fiasco.

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