The corrupt corporate media is embarrassing itself.
Again.
In the past 24 hours news outlets have twisted Donald Trump’s comments regarding former Rep. Liz Cheney into a Harris/Walz campaign ad. The reports suggest Trump wanted her to be killed via firing squad.
It’s a lie.
Podcaster Megyn Kelly was one of many to shred the Fake News narrative.
You were not threatened with death you absolute phony. You were called out on how quickly you’d willingly cause the death of our children. https://t.co/76v31kkxMS
— Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) November 1, 2024
It’s just what the corporate press does, contorting the truth to prevent a second Trump presidency. And, in the process, crush whatever remains of the public’s trust in media.
Meanwhile, the folks over at PolitiFact are keeping busy. They’re not fact-checking the obvious lies about the Cheney/Trump kerfuffle or any Harris/Walz misinformation.
No, they’re quizzing comedians about obviously satirical videos, according to Danny Polishchuk.
The co-host of “The Boyscast” shared how the biased fact-checking company reached out to him after this video went viral.
The clip purportedly shows Vice President Kamala Harris’ appearance on “The Joe Rogan Experience.” Except Harris never went on the wildly popular podcast.
Why?
She reportedly wouldn’t come to his Austin-based studio and wanted to keep the conversation to an hour or less. Most Rogan interviews run from two to three hours in length.
The Spotify superstar politely declined.
So Polishchuk created his own Rogan/Harris interview via A.I. It’s called satire.
The results are both funny and obviously fake. The video looks slick, to be fair, but even someone who isn’t up-to-speed on the latest headlines would quickly notice the clip isn’t real.
Tell that to PolitiFact.
“I got multiple messages from this chick [from PolitiFact] … how did you make this? Was this A.I.?” Polishchuk said of PolitiFact’s outreach. “What are you talking about? You’re messaging someone that you know is a comedian. Nobody thinks Kamala Harris went on Joe Rogan. It’s not like people are believing this one.”
The Canadian-born comic did a little digging on the reporter in question.
“The funny thing is I clicked on [the reporter’s] profile and she’s a Columbia Journalism grad,” Polishchuk said. “All these morons who are these journalists go to Columbia. This is what you end up doing, you see a viral comedy video and say, ‘hey, we’re doing a fact check on this.’ I’m like, ‘you guys have nothing to do? Are you guys just so bored at work?’”
Fact checkers have been harassing the right-leaning satire site The Babylon Bee for years. Meanwhile, few if any fact-checkers reach out to either late-night comedians or the far-Left satire site The Onion.
Polishchuk was Center-Left, politically speaking, when he first joined “The Boyscast.” Now, he routinely mocks the Left and challenges progressive narratives.
It likely explains why PolitiFact is suddenly interested in him.
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