You’ve been had and Aaron Rupar predicted it yesterday. I almost posted it here but wanted to see what sheep would be slaughtered. Seems it’s you.
It was a great ceremony and two presidents got along swimmingly with good natured fun. The GOP is a cesspool of propaganda.
Anatomy of a smear
From Twitter to Fox News
After the event ended, the
@RNCResearch Twitter account, which has a long and disgraceful history of false and misleading tweets, posted a 13-second clip that made it seem like Biden was wandering around the event with nobody to talk to.
“Literally no one wants to talk to Joe Biden,” the caption read.
The RNC Research account blocked me in January after
I called them out for a similarly dishonest Biden smear they made with a deceptively clipped 3-second video, but I received a DM informing me they were at it again. And sure enough, a review of C-SPAN’s footage proved how egregiously they were misrepresenting things.
Biden wasn’t wandering around with nobody to talk to — he was shaking hands and making introductions. Here’s the full video, in context:
But RNC Research’s deceptive clip nonetheless went viral, with over 4 million views as I write this on Wednesday morning. Fox News dutifully amplified it. Both Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham broadcast the clip on their Tuesday evening shows to push a narrative about Biden struggling, even though a quick review of the context is all that’s required to see how dishonest that representation is.