When it comes to fake news, this has to rank right up there, for deceptive editing and full-blown fakery spread to millions of people.

Jimmy Kimmel deceived his audience with a fake story last night about Vice President Mike Pence supposedly delivering empty boxes of PPE to the Woodbine Rehab Center.

The story was then spread widely by media and Democrats who didn’t bother to check the lie, which once again is a testament to their lack of attention to the truth and only caring about pushing a narrative. Here’s a Democratic pollster spreading it.

Mike Pence caught on hot mic delivering empty boxes of PPE for a PR stunt. pic.twitter.com/IduvGhiPwj

— Matt McDermott (@mattmfm) May 8, 2020

“Mike Pence pretending to carry empty boxes of PPEs into a hospital is the perfect metaphor for who he is and what he’s doing. A big box of nothin’ delivering another box of nothin’.”

Over four million views at this point and it’s fake, as the Washington Examiner’s Jerry Dunleavy points out.

This made me curious, so I watched the unedited C-SPAN video. Pence makes multiple trips from van to the doors of the center delivering full boxes of PPE. Pence's comment about empties for the camera is a joke – he shuts the doors right after he says it.https://t.co/JMMz7nEVit https://t.co/VNw4aqJ3jN

— JERRY DUNLEAVY (@JerryDunleavy) May 8, 2020

Here’s an unedited version of @VP Pence delivering PPE to Woodbine Rehab Center. The clip from @JimmyKimmel and sent viral by @mattmfm & others is quite deceptive. Pence is clearly joking when he talks about empty boxes for the camera, & shuts the van doors right after the quip. pic.twitter.com/HyV8iBiljS

— JERRY DUNLEAVY (@JerryDunleavy) May 8, 2020

Townhall’s Julio Rosas points out some of the media people who helped the spread.

A small sampling of media people and Democrats pushing Jimmy Kimmel's deceptively edited video of Mike Pence delivering PPE. pic.twitter.com/GGUTL8JkyV

— Julio Rosas (@Julio_Rosas11) May 8, 2020

And that was just quote tweets, here are some of the people who gave it a straight up retweet: pic.twitter.com/D0j1NQBBxo

— Julio Rosas (@Julio_Rosas11) May 8, 2020

Kimmel deleted his deceptive tweet.

.@JimmyKimmelLive deleted their tweet that had the deceptively edited video of Pence delivering PPE. pic.twitter.com/ahloYGXSne

— Julio Rosas (@Julio_Rosas11) May 8, 2020

But when caught, neither McDermott or Kimmel had the honor to properly apologize, proving what slimy people they truly are.

Additional context to @jimmykimmel segment. With 75,000 Americans dead, Pence is joking about about empty boxes of PPE during a publicity stunt, after the White House press secretary said they had no time for “publicity stunts” in the middle of a crisis. https://t.co/hFeSp83lJs

— Matt McDermott (@mattmfm) May 8, 2020

Additional context? Matt is a liar and doesn’t want to admit it with a proper apology, so tries to spin his lie as best he can.

Kimmel’s ‘apology’ was a similar attempt to dunk on Pence without actually apologizing.

it would appear that @vp was joking about carrying empty boxes for a staged publicity stunt. The full video reveals that he was carrying full boxes for a staged publicity stunt. My apologies. I know how dearly this administration values truth. https://t.co/hI9cO4lxcX

— Jimmy Kimmel (@jimmykimmel) May 8, 2020

Sad that these folks have no honor. What’s more, they missed the whole point of what Pence was trying to say, that the federal government was trying to make sure that all nursing homes had adequate PPE. According to the Daily Wire, Pence said, “15,400 nursing homes will be receiving gowns and gloves and masks: all the personal protective equipment that I had the privilege of delivering here today.” But guess it would have been too honest to cover that.

He also praised the effort of the nursing homes to deal with the situation.

[Y]ou’re not just providing world-class healthcare that every one of us would want our family to have, but we also understand that you’re filling in for family. We know the emotional weight that’s placed on you. We see the way that all of you here at Woodbine and all of you at nursing homes around the country have stepped up is truly inspiring, and I hope today’s delivery is just one more piece of evidence of the profound gratitude the American people feel to each and every one of you.

People let Kimmel have it.

Speaking of valuing truth…Didn’t you have the full video all along?

Are you claiming no one on your staff noticed that Pence closed the van doors right after you cut the clip?

— John Sexton (@verumserum) May 8, 2020

Wow. Kimmel team completely *doctored* their video https://t.co/jne1D8gxSK

— Charlie Spiering (@charliespiering) May 8, 2020

Jimmy Kimmel should stop calling himself a comedian and just start calling himself a Democratic strategist due to the fact that he is both not funny and wrong about everything https://t.co/uGQOLfBLqK

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) May 8, 2020

Sen. Ted Cruz smacked him big time.

So @JimmyKimmelLive your video falsely accusing @VP has 3.5 million views. Your text “apology” admitting your attack was entirely false…has fewer than 5k likes. Typical. https://t.co/YC25H4oT5g

— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) May 8, 2020

HT: Twitchy