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PBS NewsHour Picks Up PolitiFact's Lie of the Year (From Trump, of Course)

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I reported a couple of weeks ago on PolitiFact's Lie of the Year for 2024. The honor went to Donald Trump and J.D. Vance for saying that Haitian migrants were eating people's pets in Springfield, Ohio, a town of 60,000 which had 20,000 Haitian immigrants dropped on it. PBS NewsHour, "ranked the most credible and objective TV news show" according to its X bio, dedicated five and a half minutes to the story, even bringing on Katie Sanders from PolitiFact for an interview.

As I said in my earlier post, a lot of people had an alternative Lie of the Year: This version of Joe Biden is the best version of Biden we've ever seen and behind closed doors, he's sharp as a tack. Alejandro Mayorkas said he had trouble preparing for meetings with Biden because Biden was so probing and inquisitive. (Fox News reported in September that Biden had convened his cabinet for the first time in nearly a year.)

The whole eating pets thing was stupid and I cringed through most of it, but PBS NewsHour is very concerned with the effect the story had on the town of Springfield as well as the election. Did Trump win the election because he said immigrants were eating cats?

I have to agree with others that the Lie of the Year was that Biden's mental acuity was perfectly fine. But the DNC dropped him like a hot rock when it was clear he wasn't going to beat Trump. That debate was just a bad night, Biden explained to supporters the next day.

(Speaking of debates, someone nominated Kamala Harris for claiming that no combat troops were stationed overseas.)

Here are a couple of other candidates for Lie of the Year:

Yes, a firing squad. And how about …

PBS and PolitiFact have a cozy little relationship, don't they? It would be a shame if they were defunded.

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