The Washington Post has admitted defeat – they can no longer keep up with Joe Biden’s lies, hence the reason the President was crowned on Monday with a “bottomless Pinocchio” rating after he told multiple untruths and committed several gaffes ahead of Tuesday’s midterm elections.
It’s the first time the newspaper has “awarded” Biden the not-so-coveted rating, which it defines as a statement repeated at least 20 times that is so false that it has received either “three Pinocchios” or “four Pinocchios” on prior occasions.
According to the NY Post, the statement in question is Biden’s oft-repeated claim that he has spent “more time with [Chinese President] Xi Jinping than any other head of state,” traveling “17,000 miles with him.” The statement has been proven false, with the White House in February 2021 telling the newspaper it was “a reference to the total travel back and forth — both internally in the US and China, and as well as internationally — for meetings they held together.”
But even that claim proved to be inaccurate.
“There is no evidence Biden traveled that much with Xi, the president of China — and even if we added up the miles Biden flew to see Xi, it still did not total 17,000 miles,” Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler wrote Monday.
Biden made the comment for the 20th and 21st time during political events in California and New Mexico last week.
Kessler also called out the president for claiming that “the most common price of gas in America is $3.39 — down from over $5 when I took office,” which he said on Oct. 27.
Biden repeated the claim on Twitter Sunday, noting that the “most common price at gas stations across the country is $3.19.”
Twitter was quick to slap a fact-check on Biden’s false claim by pointing out that “Biden is referring to the “most common gas price” as opposed to the average gas price of $3.800 (11/6/22). The most common is the “mode” gas price. Neither are wrong and politicians tend to reference the one that is lower. The mode diminishes high gas states from the equation.” The fact-checked statement was backed with a link to https://gasprices.aaa.com/
The Washington Post also criticized the White House for touting both in public remarks and a since-deleted Nov. 1 tweet that seniors were “getting the biggest increase in their Social Security in 10 years through President Biden’s leadership.”
While the remark is technically true, it’s not because of some tremendous feat by the administration. The reason for the hike is soaring inflation: A 1972 law holds that Social Security must be adjusted each year to keep up with inflation rates.
