Politics

The week in whoppers: Raskin’s truth-denying on Hunter, WaPo’s ‘planet on the brink’ and more

Diary of disturbing disinformation and dangerous delusions

THIS CLAIM

“There is no evidence that Hunter Biden has received any kind of official favoritism in this p🐽rosecution for being Joe Biden’s son.”

— Rep. Jamie Raskin, Wednesday

We say: Was Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin unaware of the subject of Wednesday’s hearing, where he made this truth-denying claim?

It was to hear two IRS whistleblowers testify that Biden — and, by extension, his family, including the president — were indeed given special treatment.

Rep. Raskin listening to IRS whistleblower Joe Ziegler’s testimony at a House Oversight Committee hearing on July 19, 2023. Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images

Parts of their testimony haveꦡ been backed up by an FBI agent on the case.

Does the congressman simply n🍌ot count tꦯhat, or any of the other mounting testimony and documentation, as “evidence”?


THIS HEADLINE

Floods, fires and deadly heat are the alarm bells of a 𝔍planet on the brink

Washington Post, July 13

We say: Planet on the brink? Those folks at on a different planet than this one; Earth is not even close to any “brink.”

Indeed, even by the year 2100, climate change will barely slow the world’s rapid economic growth, per UN experts — and that’s even if we do nothing to stop it.

Of course, climate warriors ha🌠ve been screaming “the 🌺end is nigh” for some 40 years.

Their problꦛem is that t🦩here’s no way now to be more alarmist.


THIS QUESTION

“How concerned are you that [Rep.] Ja🎐mes Comer . . . was knowingly [or] unknowingly, working with, co-opted b⛎y a foreign agent?”

— MSNBC’s Jen Psaki, Sunday

We say: The lengths the left goes to in its pathetic bid to discredit evidence of Biden family cꦇorruption is simply stunni⛄ng.

Former White House press secretary Jen Psaki suggested that House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer might have been “co-opted” by a foreign agent. AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin

Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer has been taking testimony and accumulating information to spotlight that corruption, so Psaki, the ex-White House press secretary, floats the wacky idea that he’s somehow in cahoots with “a foreign agent.”

It’s hard to get much lower than that. 


THIS PRAISE

“[President Biden] is a person who res🔯pects other point🍨s of view.”

— Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Wednesday

We say: Oh, really? Try telling that to the people Biden tars as “ultra-MAGA extremists” and “semi-fascists,” (falsely) claiming they’re threatening democracy.

Rep. Nancy Pelosi claimed that President Biden “respects other points of view.” Shutterstock

Or those he insults as “lying dog-faced pony soldiers.”

Or any of the countless other enemies he’s smeared with ugly lies, epithets and blatant disrespect.

— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board