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Home Front: Politix
WashPost Busts Joe Biden Ad: Four Pinocchios for ‘Video Manipulation’ of Trump’s Coronavirus Comments
2020-03-14
[BREITBART] The Washington Post’s fact-checker column slapped former Vice President Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
...Failed seeker of the Democratic presidential nomination on multiple occasions, vice president under Barack Obama, giving it a last try in his dotage for 2020...
’s White House campaign with four Pinocchios for its misleading attack ad about President Trump’s comments about the coronavirus
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
, writing it presents "a false narrative that does not reflect the event as it occurred."

The Biden ad accuses President Trump of dismissing the deadly illness as a "hoax" during a recent campaign rally in North Charleston, South Carolina. However,
it was a brave man who first ate an oyster...
Washington Post fact-checker Meg Kelly explained the video clip is a "blatant" misrepresentation of the president’s remark.

"At the 10-second mark [of the ad], the camera shows a tight shot of the president saying ’coronavirus’ and then cuts to a wide shot where [Trump] says, ’this is their new hoax.’ Both clips are from Trump’s Feb. 28 campaign rally in North Charleston, S.C., but he never said ’coronavirus, this is their new hoax.’ Rather, Biden’s ad clipped a large part of Trump’s speech to make it seem as though he had," Kelly writes. "Ultimately, the seriousness of the coronavirus outbreak, the fact that Trump had clarified his comments on the matter before the ad was released, and the blatant way the Biden camp isolated his remarks about the American Dream pushed us to Four Pinocchios."

"Campaigns must be willing to make their case without resorting to video manipulation," she added.

A Biden aide sidestepped the Post’s refutation of the ad and instead resorted to an ad hominem attack against the president, calling him the "most dishonest president in American history."

"We don’t trust his next-day cleanup attempt, and he has made many comments in that same vein. And the claim that the American Dream was ’dead’ in the final year of the B.O. regime ‐ during the longest streak of job growth in American history ‐ is categorically untrue and another reminder of Donald Trump
...Oh, noze! Not him!...
’s deep cynicism," Rapid Response Director Andrew Bates said.

Posted by:Fred

#1  Some pretty sophisticated meme generation.
Posted by: Skidmark   2020-03-14 12:47  

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