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A bad week for USA Today’s fact-checkers

USA Today has published not one, but two, absurd fact checks this week dismissing very simple and accurate criticisms of Democratic officials.

It’s a bold change of pace for the same news outlet that not too long ago corrected an absurd “fact check” clarifying that the North American bald eagle featured on a Trump 2020 campaign shirt is not actually similar to the Nazi Reichsadler.

The first USA Today fact check investigates criticism of incoming White House press secretary Jen Psaki. Old photos shared this week on social media show her posing with Russian officials while wearing a cossack ushanka adorned with the Soviet Union hammer and sickle emblem.

It is true. Psaki absolutely did this. Whether it is worthy of criticism is one thing (I personally don’t think it is). It is another thing entirely to treat the matter as one where people are leveling a criticism that lacks “context," which is just silly.

Yet this is exactly what USA Today asserts this week in an article titled "Fact check: Jen Psaki was gifted a hammer and sickle hat at a diplomatic meeting."

Psaki “is seen in a 2014 photo posing with the Russian foreign minister and his spokesperson, along with then-Secretary of State John Kerry,” the article reads. “She is wearing a pink hat with a hammer and sickle emblem, which was a gift from the Russians that she returned.”

It adds, “At the time, Psaki was spokesperson for the U.S. State Department. The image is real, but claims that the hat was anything more a gift or that Psaki was with Russian officials in any capacity beyond her official role are MISSING CONTEXT.”

What? The “claim” as presented in the article’s headline and opening lines is indisputably true. It is a fact. Psaki was given a Soviet-themed gift, which she wore in photos posing alongside Russian officials.

Any added “context” is just an attempt to soften what USA Today clearly believes is unfair criticism. That is not the role of a fact-checker.

There is more.

USA Today also published a fact check this week investigating the 100% accurate claim that “several Democratic politicians urge social distancing and issuing stay-at-home advisories but host or attend gatherings.”

Again, this is a straightforward and accurate criticism.

The list of pro-lockdown Democratic officials who have broken their own pandemic guidelines is a long one. It includes (via my Washington Examiner colleague Kaylee McGhee White): Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, California Gov. Gavin Newsom, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser, Denver Mayor Michael Hancock, San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo, and Los Angeles County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl.

More: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/a-bad-week-for-usa-todays-fact-checkers

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ORIGINAL: BoscoX


When wild-eyed leftists run headlong into a brick wall of hard facts they always have a backup method of remaining totally ignorant. One such method involves fake far left 'fact checkers" that are always ready and willing to give "Democrat' cult members excuses to keep chugging that Bernie Sanders-flavored Kool-Aid

They know their cherished "fact checkers' are lying to them, but they LIKE their abusive relationship

They're sick to the core and they LIKE being sick to the core. They wallow in it, then they shit and piss and puke in it, and they wallow around in it some more

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A bad week for USA Today’s fact-checkers

USA Today has published not one, but two, absurd fact checks this week dismissing very simple and accurate criticisms of Democratic officials.

It’s a bold change of pace for the same news outlet that not too long ago corrected an absurd “fact check” clarifying that the North American bald eagle featured on a Trump 2020 campaign shirt is not actually similar to the Nazi Reichsadler.

The first USA Today fact check investigates criticism of incoming White House press secretary Jen Psaki. Old photos shared this week on social media show her posing with Russian officials while wearing a cossack ushanka adorned with the Soviet Union hammer and sickle emblem.

It is true. Psaki absolutely did this. Whether it is worthy of criticism is one thing (I personally don’t think it is). It is another thing entirely to treat the matter as one where people are leveling a criticism that lacks “context," which is just silly.

Yet this is exactly what USA Today asserts this week in an article titled "Fact check: Jen Psaki was gifted a hammer and sickle hat at a diplomatic meeting."

Psaki “is seen in a 2014 photo posing with the Russian foreign minister and his spokesperson, along with then-Secretary of State John Kerry,” the article reads. “She is wearing a pink hat with a hammer and sickle emblem, which was a gift from the Russians that she returned.”

It adds, “At the time, Psaki was spokesperson for the U.S. State Department. The image is real, but claims that the hat was anything more a gift or that Psaki was with Russian officials in any capacity beyond her official role are MISSING CONTEXT.”

What? The “claim” as presented in the article’s headline and opening lines is indisputably true. It is a fact. Psaki was given a Soviet-themed gift, which she wore in photos posing alongside Russian officials.

Any added “context” is just an attempt to soften what USA Today clearly believes is unfair criticism. That is not the role of a fact-checker.

There is more.

USA Today also published a fact check this week investigating the 100% accurate claim that “several Democratic politicians urge social distancing and issuing stay-at-home advisories but host or attend gatherings.”

Again, this is a straightforward and accurate criticism.

The list of pro-lockdown Democratic officials who have broken their own pandemic guidelines is a long one. It includes (via my Washington Examiner colleague Kaylee McGhee White): Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, California Gov. Gavin Newsom, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser, Denver Mayor Michael Hancock, San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo, and Los Angeles County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl.

More: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/a-bad-week-for-usa-todays-fact-checkers