A Look at the 7 Most Humiliating Fact Checks Leftists Got in 2021
By: Grant Atkinson
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A Look at the 7 Most Humiliating Fact Checks Leftists Got in 2021
Those on the left love to use “fact-checkers” to suppress conservative articles with which they do not agree. However, they tend to ignore the untruths told by people who share their views.
Here are seven of the most embarrassing lies Democrats and left-wing media were caught telling in 2021.
1. Border Patrol Agents Were ‘Swinging Whips’ at Immigrants
In September, Vice News ran a story claiming that Border Patrol agents in Del Rio, Texas, were using whips to round up illegal immigrants and deter them from entering the country. Other outlets, including the El Paso Times and NBC News, ran with the story as well, and leftist Sawyer Hackett posted a photo supposedly showing the abuse:
This characterization was completely false. In reality, the Border Patrol agents were “swinging the loose end of their split reins, a part of western riding gear used to guide the horse,” fact-checker Lead Stories noted.
2. Build Back Better Will Cost ‘Zero Dollars’
While attempting to garner support for his Build Back Better agenda in September, President Joe Biden said the plan would cost “zero dollars.”
The dubious claim received a rating of two Pinocchios from The Washington Post , which indicates “significant omissions and/or exaggerations,” and the Post said the number of Pinocchios “could grow higher.”
3. Trump Supporters Attempted an ‘Insurrection’ on Jan. 6
This was maybe the most high-profile lie of the year from the left, and nearly every establishment media parroted it. With the word “insurrection,” the left indicated that supporters of then-President Donald Trump coordinated with one another to overthrow the government during the Jan. 6 Capitol incursion.
In reality, the FBI “found scant evidence” that Trump supporters coordinated to attempt such an attack, and the vast majority of people apprehended that day were “one-off cases,” Reuters reported. According to USA Today , none of those arrested so far has been charged with insurrection.
4. Biden Was Handcuffed by Trump Admin’s Peace Deal in Afghanistan
After his administration’s botched withdrawal in Afghanistan, Biden tried to blame the failure on the Trump administration’s February 2020 peace agreement with the Taliban. The suggestion that Biden’s hands were tied by that deal is a lie.
“The U.S. could have withdrawn from the accord if Afghan peace talks failed,” The Associated Press noted. “They did, but Biden chose to stay in it, although he delayed the complete pullout from May to September.”
5. People Won’t Get COVID-19 If They Are Vaccinated
In a July town hall, Biden attempted to justify his vaccine mandates by saying, “You’re not gonna get COVID if you have these vaccinations.”
This is obviously false as large numbers of vaccinated people have contracted COVID-19 in so-called breakthrough cases, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention . The agency pointed to an October study that found unvaccinated people were at five times greater risk of testing positive for the virus than vaccinated people.
6. There’s No Chance COVID-19 Originated in a Wuhan Lab
In September 2020, PolitiFact published a fact-check against virologist Li-Meng Yan, who said the COVID-19 virus was created by humans in a lab. It said this assertion “runs counter to scientific evidence.”
Over time, the idea that the virus originated in a lab has become much more widely accepted. In May 2021, PolitiFact rescinded the fact check , saying the claim that COVID-19 could not have originated in a lab became “more widely disputed.”
7. Trump Left Biden Without a Vaccination Plan
Many high-level Democrats in the Biden administration said Trump had left them without a distribution plan for vaccines. Vice President Kamala Harris said the Biden administration was “starting from scratch” on a vaccine plan.
In reality, the Trump administration’s Operation Warp Speed was a driving force in both the development and the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, acknowledged that fact, saying on Jan. 21, 2021, “We certainly are not starting from scratch, because there is activity going on in the distribution.”
Honorable Mentions
These false claims didn’t quite make the top seven but are worthy of mentioning to further underline the left’s dishonesty:
- Biden said on June 1 that Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema voted with Republicans more often than Democrats. They had actually voted with him 100 percent of the time.
- The Washington Post claimed Sen. Tim Scott did not come from poverty because his great-great-grandfather once owned 900 acres of land.
- Biden falsified support for his jobs plan when he said the last five Federal Reserve leaders were backing him. In fact, only three of them were alive at the time.
- Biden potentially inflated rape statistics by over 225 percent.
- Biden falsely claimed the voter integrity laws in Georgia would reduce voting hours.
- Biden falsely claimed 83 percent of Trump’s tax cuts went to the top 1 percent. In reality, that group received only 20.5 percent of the tax cut in 2018.
- Biden falsely claimed the border crisis that raged during his presidency was just an example of a typical winter immigration surge .
- “View” co-host Joy Behar said antifa was a “fictitious idea.” The far-left group is very real and has wreaked havoc during riots in Portland, Oregon, and other cities.
- Sen. Elizabeth Warren said Trump told his supporters to “invade” the Capitol building. In reality, he told them to “peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.”
- Biden said Trump held the Bible upside-down during a speech at the burned St. John’s Episcopal Church in Washington. The claim was fully debunked.
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Some conservatives are 'drunk' on propaganda! It's sickening to watch this fiasco happening. Our hope is once some conservatives reach "saturation point' they will tamp down automatically.
Some liberals continue to swallow the swill being handed to them by the Democratic Party.
It is indeed sickening to see so many people continuing to be so gleefully bamboozled.
My hope is one day Democrats wake the hell up.
I’m about to abandon all hope for them on your last point.
So you think it propaganda to deny that 1-6-21 was anywhere near as bad for America and the American people as 9-11-01 or 12-7-41 was?
Jefferson, please. "Breaking and entering into the capitol building" is many degrees bad. First, I don't know what VP Harris stated and the context encompassing those possible remarks, and secondly, we do not benefit from any insurrection seeking to manipulate representatives into accepting mob rule over proper election results. Dig?
What I think is propaganda is anybody who tries to 'water down' the truth of what was intended by invading and overrunning the capitol structure and stealing government machines and staring at government documents (without any regard for clearances).
Did you object when the actions of BLM and Antifa domestic terrorists looting, rioting, arson, assaults, deaths, theft, vandalism across the big cities of America since late May 2020 were watered down to “mostly peaceful” protests?
There was no insurrection on 1-6-21.
Some conservatives, next you will be explaining away why 'with all these guns we got, we had no choice but to defend the middle of the country from shoreline states. Does that even make sense to you on some level? See? That's delusional. Why? Because the middle states ain't going to be SHIT without their surrounding states and vice-versa. America's effectual power is in its unity. Not some 'juiced-down' brain-drain for conservative-sake.
You conflate issues and then you try to 'slam' them together and make 'mush.' It's foolish. Maybe Trumpian, even sophistic, but not balanced. That's all I got for you.
(Because somethings well you just have to figure out for yourself with limited help from others.)
A word about magnification. You can try to demonize liberals all you want, it won't change a fact about who liberals are-any more than it us demonizing some conservatives will make you less of a Trump collaborator. The truth is what it is and it what will stand the test of time.
My seeded article was exactly right about the 7 fact checks liberals got caught wrong in. Nothing like using a fascists tool to catch other fascists in the errors of their way!
EsCAPE THE TRUMP SILO ALREADY!!! This from somebody who can't find anything wrong with one of the worst human being in this country: Donald J. Trump. Wait for it. . . Some conservatives ARE THE WEAKEST LINK!
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Funny, but the article isn;t about Trump---or what you think of the author.
No, it is not. Never was, never will be.
There is no link weaker in America than the bicoastal secular progressive urban elites in their ivory towers and their limousine liberal friends. The people they support are on the wrong side of all these fact checks.