Democrat lampooned for plea to press to stop fact-checking Biden: 'Fact-check her facts'
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A former Missouri Democratic senator-turned-MSNBC regular demanded this week that the New York Times and other media stop fact-checking President Biden, suggesting not enough attention has been given to former President Trump's purported "vomits [of] lies."
"I move that every newspaper in America quit doing any fact checks on Joe Biden until they fact-check Donald Trump every morning on the front page," Claire McCaskill said, name-dropping the Gray Lady after it published a lengthy piece about the incumbent and going on to insist Trump's statements be annotated by the paper instead.
While reporter Angelo Fichera wrote that the Biden economy reportedly grew 3% in the past year, he added the president has also made "misleading statements" about taxation and the economy. The report listed several other Biden claims which were either flawed, false or lacked context.
On "Outnumbered," host Kayleigh McEnany remarked McCaskill might need factchecking herself.
"Let's fact-check the so-called facts of Claire McCaskill. It's exhausting," McEnany said, queuing up a scroll of all of the New York Times' past fact-check stories about Trump.
On MSNBC, McCaskill claimed it is "ridiculous" the Times was fact-checking Biden.
"I mean, [Trump] vomits lies… and it's just ridiculous that the New York Times is doing a fact-check on Biden while they're numb to the torrent of lies coming out of Trump's mouth," said the former lawmaker, who left the Senate after being defeated by Republican Josh Hawley in 2018.
On "Outnumbered," co-host Emily Compagno said McCaskill is essentially continuing the Democratic Party mantra that "the only lies that matter are the ones coming out of Trump's mouth, and that everything out of his mouth is a lie."... (Read more)
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