Thursday, November 10, 2022

"Fact check: Video shows Pelosi security detail escorting her to her car, not arresting her"

That's from USA Today. Where would we be without fact checkers?

Also from USA Today:
Fact check: Satirical claim that Biden is selling Alaska to Russia
 
Fact check: CNN chyron praising Taliban for wearing face masks originated as satire
 
Same source:
 
Fact check: Story about United Airlines, Black Lives Matter and a toddler is satirical
 
Although on that last one USAT actually was performing a service. The story being fact checked included such detail as:
"We tried! We even practiced together for weeks," said the sobbing mother on Facebook Live. "But little Adeline couldn't get the words out! The best she could do was 'bwak wives mawa.' She was able to make a little fist which she raised above her head, but that wasn't good enough for the flight attendants."
Which is so obviously real that you can understand the concern on the part of USAT.
 
Most of the stories being fact checked were from the Babylon Bee, as was this one:
And this: