by Chris Cordani, America Outloud:
The controversial fact-checking Snopes.com website has arguably put forth various results when it comes to awarding “truth” of “fiction.”
The site’s checkers have a long history of protecting Democrats over actually finding the truth. Sometimes, they will throw a bone to the right to display the illusion of non-bias. One glaring exception of that, interestingly, was the obvious omission of the glaring lie that plagued the Donald Trump presidency throughout his term in office: The Charlottesville “Very Fine People” hoax.
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For years, mainstream media and left-side politicians used the lie in their on-air and political campaign discussions to deliberately frame Trump as a white supremacist, racist, or (at least) a Neo-Nazi sympathizer. It was the lie then-candidate Joe Biden used to kick off his presidential campaign against the real estate mogul-turned-politician. Biden and his cohorts continued to repeat this lie as a convenient piece of ammunition against Trump whenever possible, perhaps knowing in the same answer to a journalist’s question, the President lambasted neo-Nazis and those with bad intentions at the Charlottesville protest.
Surely, Biden was planning to make the out-of-context phrase a cornerstone of his 2024 re-election campaign. Snopes, however, decided to post its debunking of the oft-used lie around seven years after people who pay attention already knew about it. While waiting the seven years to post anything remotely correcting the mischaracterization, many are questioning why it took seven years for them to do so. The real question is: “why NOW?”
Curiously, Snopes would not be bothered posting a fact-check on the blatant VFP lie although the full quote had been available for all to hear and read at the time. It would have been a proverbial slam dunk. Knowing this would exonerate Trump, and they are considered the de facto fact-checkers by the rank-and-file Left (you know, those insufferable virtue-signaling keyboard warriors you see on your social media feed), perhaps they were afraid of losing a lot of their visitors who come for confirmation bias rather than truth.
Possibly, the site’s donors made sure Snopes skipped over considering an honest debunking of the lie. Still, quite probably, they were handed an under-the-cover “cease and desist” from Deep Staters who wanted to taint the Trump presidency from the start. One thing is definite: eschewing any approach on the subject was not an accident by Snopes; this is a group that felt compelled to “debunk” Babylon Bee satire, including the infamous “CNN bought a washing machine to spin the news” headline. It was an obvious lie Snopes held back from correcting.
As we stand now, Snopes could have done two things: any time over the last seven years, they had the opportunity to post about the VFP hoax to save some face, or they could have left it alone and kept the discourse over it at a status quo. What they did, however, was post-fact-check proving Trump did not compliment neo-Nazis as “very fine people” in very close proximity to the first Biden-Trump debate of the 2024 election season. Snopes’ timing also came shortly after the recent wave of videos and photos proving Joe Biden’s cognitive decline is worsening.
Not too many “leaders” of the Free World need to be guided back to a photo shoot by a fellow dignitary (it’s usually the random handler doing that with Joe). The timing also coincides with an increasing among of articles from parts of the mainstream media legitimizing speculation the Democrat party may replace Biden as its Oval Office nominee; therefore, it is logical the Deep Statists would hand down an order to Snopes, to tell the truth about the disingenuous attribution to Trump on which the current Man in Lieu of a President based his entire campaign optics? It leaves Biden with less of an arsenal against Trump in the coming debate and through November.
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