https://www.city-journal.org/article/the-new-york-times-fact-checks-biden
To measure the terror now gripping the mainstream media in the wake of the Biden–Trump debate, consider this: the New York Times is now fact-checking Joe Biden in favor of Donald Trump.
Monday’s print edition of the Times contains an article titled “In ABC Interview, Exaggerations about Polling and Trump.” The article applies a level of scrutiny to Biden’s Friday interview with ABC anchor George Stephanopoulos that is nearly unprecedented toward a Democratic candidate.
The Times now quotes Biden verbatim, with the clear intention of putting his verbal shuffles on full display:
Biden: “After that debate, . . . I did events in—in—in Georgia, did events like this today, large crowds, overwhelming response, no—no—no slipping.”
So remorseless is the Times toward Biden’s speech stumbles that it even records a missing syllable:
“The New York Times had me behind before anything having to do with this race—had me hind—behind 10 points.”
Factual errors that before would have been allowed to pass unnoticed are now harvested and amplified:
Before the interview on Friday, Mr. Biden said of Mr. Trump at a rally in Wisconsin that he would “beat him again in 2020.” At a Fourth of July barbecue with military members and their families, Mr. Biden referred to Mr. Trump as “one of our former colleagues” before correcting himself. And at a fund-raising reception in East Hampton, New York, he confused Italy and France when referring to the location of a veterans’ cemetery he recently visited.