Again With the White House Alright Already

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Information technology will come as no surprise to conservatives or anyone willing to think critically and fairly that the Biden White House enjoys a cozier relationship with the mainstream media than the Trump administration did. Fawning coverage of the White House'south new cat that distracted attention from Biden's crises is a cracking case in betoken. The fashion in which mainstream outlets go subsequently Biden's critics is some other instance, and one that we at Townhall have experienced and watched unfold in existent-time — as we reported.

Just thanks to a late-breaking story from POLITICO on Wed, it looks like there are even more symbiotic relationships at play betwixt the White Business firm press shop and supposedly independent fact-checkers or unbiased mainstream outlets.

In which the White House colludes with The New York Times to craft and shape political narratives. https://t.co/jjx86sickv

— Kevin McMahon (@Kevin__McMahon) March 23, 2022

Here's what Alex Thompson and Max Tani reported:

Over the past month, the White House'south press shop has repeatedly promoted stories from The New York Times' fact-checker, LINDA QIU.

Biden cited a Qiu piece himselfearlier this month when he addressed Business firm Democrats in Philadelphia. "Headline fact checker in the New York Times: "Republicans Wrongly Arraign Biden for Rising Gas Prices," he said, reading the headline of the piece. "And it goes on to explicate why gas prices are and so loftier."

Many members of the president's printing team have also become Qiu content boosters in recent weeks.

On March x, deputy press secretary ANDREW BATES  tweeted out the same Qiu fact check on why "Republicans Wrongly Blame Biden for Rising Gas Prices," adding a touch of his own commentary. "The only fashion to be straight with readers is to include this context," Bates noted.

Press secretary JEN PSAKIshared the same piece, noting "FACT CHECK on GOP."

On Mon, Bates shared some other story by Qiu. "@nytimes Fact Cheque: 'Attacks on Judge Jackson's Record on Kid Sexual Corruption Cases Are Misleading' Hawley and Blackburn 'have taken the judge's remarks and sentencing decisions out of context, distorting her tape,'" he tweeted.

Political leader does notation that "Not all of Qiu'south fact checks have been heralded by the White House," as seen in her piece: "Biden's Inaccurate Claims in Defending Afghanistan Withdrawal," only that was last August, plain before Qiu decided to play dainty with the White Firm and become from supposedly contained fact-checker to a Biden make clean-up crew member.

Like mentioned previously, information technology's a symbiotic relationship: the White Firm gets to hit back at critics with supposedly impartial judgements on what is truthful and what isn't, and the writer and outlets running the fact checks become increased traffic and attention cheers to the most powerful role in the world.

Some of Qiu'south other recent pieces that sought to vindicate the White Firm or attack Biden's critics include, as listed by POLITICO, "Theory Near U.S.-Funded Bioweapons Labs in Ukraine Is Unfounded" and "Explaining the Claim That the Biden Administration Is Funding 'Crack Pipes.'"

It volition likewise come equally no surprise that, every bit the report notes, Qiu ended upward at The Times by mode of... PolitiFact — home of supposedly independent fact-checkers who, equally Townhall discovered, have already been caught taking cues from Biden's staff and are notorious for turning a bullheaded center to dubious statements from liberals while waging a vendetta confronting conservatives.

Back in Dec, Townhall tweeted a video clip of President Biden maxim that he was going to make certain Americans were paying their "fair share" for gas in improver to Biden's usual rambling. The clip picked upward steam at which point Mike Gwin — the White House'south rapid response managing director — lashed out and baselessly accused Townhall of "lazy, deceptive, editing" that Gwin claims was done "to omit that the President was noting falling gas prices." Except of form, that isn't what happened and Biden'due south full quote was included in the video.

But later on the Biden lackey made his false merits, PolitiFact conveniently decided to fact-cheque Townhall'due south video, asking our team for an caption and citing the White Business firm as the source of their scrutiny. How convenient.

What POLITICO's story reveals is that, in addition to PolitiFact'due south current staff taking cues from the White Firm, information technology sure looks like this PolitiFact alum at the Gray Lady has jumped on the Biden regime bandwagon in return for added attention for her work.

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Source: https://townhall.com/tipsheet/spencerbrown/2022/03/24/the-white-house-just-got-caught-colluding-with-fact-checkers-again--politico-scoop-n2604966

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