Over the past couple of days, there have been a lot of reactions to Joe Biden falling over on his bike.
But one of the things that I wrote about was how the liberal media immediately treated the fall as something that “happens all the time.” Now that’s not the attitude they took when it came to President Donald Trump, when even his cautiously walking down a slippery ramp and not falling earned criticism and a story about what it “matters.”
Some mocked this reaction from the media.
I spent two years with Joe Biden on the campaign trail and saw how his message of empathy resonated with voters. When he fell off his bike on Saturday, millions of children were reminded why it was so important that he won the 2020 election. My latest for The Atlantic:
— Joe Gabriel Simonson (@SaysSimonson) June 18, 2022
Next article in The Atlantic — How Biden solved world hunger by having Ethiopian cuisine
The following week — Biden solves the housing crisis by living in the White House. pic.twitter.com/BDyHjbtgmp
— Be Peaceful (@PeasAlways) June 19, 2022
But the AP fact-checked that last meme, which is more than a little hilarious. That’s what they think demands fact-checking. Not Joe Biden lying about an appointment to the Naval Academy, being a truck driver, or any of his boatload of lies — those don’t deserve checking, but a meme that randos made on the internet does.
Of course, the reason that people might believe that meme is because it sounds just like other real articles that The Atlantic and other liberal media have put out about Biden, as conservatives pointed out in tweets to the AP.
can you please fact check this one too? absurd parody headlines like this are undermining the credibility of a vaunted & trusted outlet. pic.twitter.com/QsMxo5ortF
— Jerry Dunleavy (@JerryDunleavy) June 20, 2022
— Dr. Richard Harambe (@Richard_Harambe) June 20, 2022
And yes, that’s real, it referenced a story about how Biden used to swim naked in front of Secret Service including women when he was Vice President.
But now there’s more to the story — and maybe when we’re talking about “fact checks” as to why Biden fell, they may want to add a coda to it. As I noted the other day, “He seems to be concentrated on meeting the people, rather than properly stopping the bike and getting off cleanly.” I also wondered why Jill Biden turned off to the right and kept going, yet Joe stopped. As it turns out, there was a little girl in the crowd there. Joe pulled up right in front of her on the bike, then fell over, but when he got up, he went right over to talk to her.
You can see the little girl in this picture.
JUST IN: Biden takes a spill while getting off bike after beach ride in Delaware https://t.co/IEmXZG3uo8 pic.twitter.com/B0prnMo43D
— ABC7 Eyewitness News (@ABC7) June 18, 2022
Joe just couldn’t help himself. pic.twitter.com/EqPEWN4M7L
— I Meme Therefore I Am (@ImMeme0) June 20, 2022
So that’s likely why he got his foot stuck in the toe cage because he wasn’t concentrating on getting out of it safely. Will the AP add that part into their fact check?
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