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Mediaite Turns Zapruder on a Joe Biden Sitting Video

Brad Slager
Brad Slager  |  Jun 06, 2024
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Presentation Paradox – DALLAS MORNING NEWS

The press continues to lobby against red states with strident abortion laws – and they continue to lie in the process. Somehow, the claim continues to be made that women enduring a miscarriage run the risk of violating new abortion restrictions when this is a complete falsehood.

This time, it is in Texas, as the Dallas Morning News claims a couple ran afoul of the new law when the wife was suffering from the effects of a miscarriage, and the implication is she was denied treatment by a health facility due to confusion over the law. Then the outlet manages to completely contradict its claims.

After a headline stating, "How a couple found themselves tangled in Texas' strict abortion laws after miscarriage," the piece goes on to make this statement:

It's impossible to say whether the woman's miscarriage care was influenced by the abortion bans, even though her case should fall outside the laws bounds.

So the miscarriage treatment was not impacted by the law, and it cannot be said definitively that any decisions about her care were made with the inapplicable law in mind – but the DMN will go forward with the claim anyway?

To make this more of a case of malpractice in journalism (not in healthcare), John McCormack of The Dispatch contacted the clinic the couple went to and learned the facility does not perform any major medical procedures, so they were not denied care due to a law, but by the parameters of the clinic they chose.

Democratic Custodial Services – MEDIAITE

  • Saying it took the president ten seconds to sit down, not seven seconds, does not help your cause.

Admittedly it must be tough work when you position yourself as a stalwart defender of Joe Biden at all costs, but at some point, doesn't pride in your work come into play? Tommy Christopher decided to go with forensic video analysis to explain away a recent baffling display from President Silver Alert.

As Biden was over in Europe commemorating D-Day, he delivered all manner of questionable acts that inspired head-shaking, from looking lost perpetually and being led around and hurriedly escorted from the affair before things were concluded. The high(low)light was when Biden attempted to sit in a chair.

Jill can be seen directing him not to sit yet, so Biden hovers in mid-crouch. Christopher jumps in to claim the video was edited to show Biden in a poor light, and the full video explains he actually did manage to sit. So instead of Biden taking seven seconds before he was properly seated, he actually squatted for ten seconds and then managed to park himself. This, Tommy seems to think, helps his cause.

Prose & Contradiction – VARIOUS OUTLETS

  • The anonymous source is on a speaking tour complaining about exposure.

The press continues to be in a frothing rage about Justice Samuel Alito and his flags. The reason there is outrage over the judge having an inverted US flag outside his home is because his neighbors went to the press with the story to impugn his character. Now, they are mad. 

Emily Baden expressed concern that Mrs. Alito has exposed her in news reports. Note that I used her name? This is because the woman who is dismayed that her name was used is making a tour of the news outlets where her name and image are blasted on the airwaves.

Body Checking the Fact-Checkers – POLITIFACT

  • Once again, accurate economic figures are problematic.

When it comes to Joe Biden and inflation, PolitiFact's Lou Jacobson has been tasked with stirring up murky explanations. Last month, when Senator Marco Rubio stated cumulative inflation under Biden was over +19%, it was "Half True," according to Jacobson, because although accurate, this was mitigated by wage increases. Lou measured four years of increases against three years of inflation to make Marco inaccurate.

Now, when Biden told Time Magazine wages grew faster than inflation, Jacobson shows Biden is completely wrong – but he was only "Half True" due to more wrangling of figures to cloud the waters of accuracy.

Both Kinds of Standards – VARIOUS OUTLETS

  • Applauding acts today that were unseemly just years ago.

During the D-Day events, it was rather tasteless to see the likes of Biden and Hillary Clinton bringing up election issues and tying Donald Trump with the kind of authoritarian regimes that were battled in WW2. 

Curtis Houck of NewsBusters harkened back to a time when Trump made comments along those lines and was scorched by Nicolle Wallace over that crass display, something not only avoided being criticized today, but the journos even turned political back then.