This time, Biden said that he has skin cancer thanks to the oil industry. During a speech near his childhood home in Delaware yesterday, Biden spoke about global warming and the emissions from oil refineries near his home. “That’s why I and so damn many other people I grew up with have cancer and why for the longest time Delaware had the highest cancer rate in the nation,” Biden said.
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After the clip began going viral, White House spokesman Andrew Bates shared a tweet from the Washington Post fact checker Glenn Kessler to provide some supposed clarification. "Check out Biden's medical report. Before he became president, he'd had non-melanoma skin cancers removed."
How dumb is this tweet? Check out Biden's medical report. Before he became president, he'd had non-melanoma skin cancers removed. Has no one at @RNCResearch ever had this common procedure? https://t.co/TS9VWtKcYC https://t.co/itklkVZIor
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) July 20, 2022
While this is true, it's hardly applicable to Biden's comments. Biden said "I have cancer" in the present tense, and said that he had cancer due to emissions from oil companies, not the sun.
During the Trump presidency Kessler assembled what became a database of 30,000 lies he claimed that Donald Trump told in office. The list was sloppily put together, would often fact check hyperbole and obvious jokes, and would repeat "fact check" identical claims each time Trump made them to inflate the lie count. Yet the man who fact checked Trump's jokes can't just admit that Biden has gaffes.
Of note, during Biden's first 100 days in office Kessler maintained a Biden databse - but he then discontinued it.
It wasn't even a month ago that Joe Biden had his apparent Ron Burgundy moment, stating during a speech "end of quote, read the line." As video of the clip went viral, the fact checkers mobilized to tell us that Biden wasn't reading directly from his teleprompter.
“No. He said, ‘let me repeat that line,’” tweeted out White House Assistant Press Secretary Emilie Simons, and this became the official narrative. the White House even edited the official transcript of Biden's remarks to "End of quote. *let me* repeat the line" to bolster the lie.
FactCheck.org uncritically relied on that falsified transcript in their "refutation" of the video, and Snopes' article is also based on the bogus official White House transcript.
It remains unclear what facts they actually check.
Matt Palumbo is the author of The Man Behind the Curtain: Inside the Secret Network of George Soros
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