We reported yesterday on how President Biden gave remarks in the Rose Garden where he announced some executive orders he’d be signing under the pretense of wanting to resolve what Democrats have described as a “gun problem” in America.

As per the norm, the speech was a rambling and incoherent mess, but it did contain one very noticeable and significant whopper that even gun control proponents know is not true (though they wouldn’t dare call him out on it). For those who missed it, here’s what he said (bolded emphasis added):

Most people don’t know: If you walk into a store and you buy a gun, you have a background check. But you go to a gun show, you can buy whatever you want and no background check.

Watch:

BIDEN: “You can go to a gun show, you can buy what you want and no background check.”

This is a total lie and shows how little this administration understands about gun laws. pic.twitter.com/84BCIvGWLM

— Caleb Hull (@CalebJHull) April 8, 2021

Biden’s faux pas was so bad that White House press secretary Jen Psaki had to walk his comments about background checks at gun shows back during the press briefing she gave later in the day yesterday.

But despite the fact that Psaki basically “unsaid” what Biden had stated earlier during his event, the so-called “fact-checkers” at Politifact predictably rode to Biden’s rescue with this laughable “fact check” on his claim:

NEW: In today’s gun policy address, President Biden exaggerated about background checks at gun shows. Mostly False. https://t.co/fXAHU9pfCr pic.twitter.com/4ezABzIm9f

— PolitiFact (@PolitiFact) April 8, 2021

Exaggerated?? Um, no.

When you click on the link, you’ll see he received a “mostly false” rating – with them also saying what he claimed was “overstated,” which is again nonsense because, in reality, it was outright false approaching “pants on fire” territory, as others tried to explain:

So, he lied. Just say he lied, mate.

— Jason Jordan 🙀 (@jasonjordan2814) April 9, 2021

Mostly false is like “mostly peaceful”. I’ll fix it for them.

Biden lied!

Done. https://t.co/WNMalW6PKw

— Joe Albergo (@JoeAlbergoFL) April 9, 2021

Let me fix this for you… https://t.co/tR0AyNRwgk pic.twitter.com/a1a5Hf52Gr

— Carole Gilman (@CaroleGilman) April 9, 2021

“exaggerated” or completely lied?

Fact-checking sites like this are so transparently biased it’s ridiculous.

“mostly false”

It’s completely and totally false. https://t.co/9qcCtjBKqY

— St Nicc (@NickTheCynic) April 9, 2021

And then there was how Twitter promoted the story:

PolitiFact gave Biden a “Mostly False,” and the Twitter sidebar can’t say “Biden” or “Mostly False.” pic.twitter.com/DAq9pDAXXz

— Tim Graham (@TimJGraham) April 9, 2021

Sadly, this is the type of “fact-checking” we’re going to be subjected to for the next four years on Biden. His lies will be characterized as mere “exaggerations” or “misstatements” or “leaving out important context”, etc. It’s their way of justifying the fact that they don’t have dedicated teams and pages on their websites devoted to keeping a track of Biden’s statements like they did Trump’s, for reasons that should be obvious to everyone.

As I’ve said before, journalists have not been the only ones that have completely beclowned themselves and destroyed their credibility over the last four years. Fact-checkers are right behind them. Unfortunately, that is not going to change anytime soon – if ever.

Flashback: Brian Stelter Asks Politifact About Andrew Cuomo, and the Interview Was Everything Wrong With Journalism