Critics slammed the Associated Press this week after it fact-checked a false claim by President Biden regarding green energy savings for Americans, claiming he 'misspoke' rather than lied.
didn't misspeak, but actually lied, and others arguing that if a Republican was being fact-checked by the outlet, it would have accused them of"disinformation."
"Every single ‘misspeaking’ a Democrat makes is to up-sell their BS policies, and ‘fact-checkers’ still refuse to call it a lie," wrote Townhall columnist Derek Hunter, while conservative website ForAmerica simply tweeted,"Biden didn’t misspeak, he lied." "The AP is a Democrat activist organization. If a Republican politician said this, the AP would accuse him of ‘disinformation’ . But when a Democrat politician says it, he 'misspoke,'" wrote Christina Pushaw, press secretary to Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.
Christina Pushaw, press secretary for Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, slammed the Associated Press in a Thursday, March 31st tweet for claiming President Biden "misspoke" in a fact-check about green energy savings, rather than lied. Journalist Kyle Becker expressed shock that the AP was even fact-checking Biden at all, declaring that"the deep state putsch" against Biden had begun.across the country continue to hover near record highs.Get all the stories you need-to-know from the most powerful name in news delivered first thing every morning to your inbox
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