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Snopes Attacks ‘Unfounded Rumor’ of Biden’s Medical Emergency in Vegas

Posted on | July 23, 2024 | Comments Off on Snopes Attacks ‘Unfounded Rumor’ of Biden’s Medical Emergency in Vegas

Last Wednesday, I reported (“Exit Strategy? Biden Tests Positive for COVID, Retreats to Delaware”) about the official reason given when Joe Biden abruptly canceled an event in Las Vegas. He was seen boarding Air Force One and hasn’t been seen in public since then. What happened instead was that on Sunday afternoon, the Biden campaign issued a statement from Biden stating that he was ending his reelection campaign and endorsing Kamala Harris. That was more than 36 hours ago, and there has still been no public appearance by Biden, although he did phone into a meeting with Kamala on Monday afternoon:

The president called into the meeting from his home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, where he is recovering from COVID-19, to lend his support to Harris. He planned to talk about his decision to step aside in an address to the nation later this week.
“The name has changed at the top of the ticket, but the mission hasn’t changed at all,” Biden said in his first public remarks since announcing his decision to step aside, promising he was “not going anywhere” and plans to campaign on Harris’ behalf.
Biden said of his decision, “It was the right thing to do.”
As he handed off the mantle of leadership to Harris, Biden added: “I’m watching you kid. I love you.”

Yet Americans have not seen the president since last Wednesday, and on Monday, Charlie Kirk of Turning Point USA posted this:

Got a weird lead on a story that people should look into. I got a call from a source close to Las Vegas Metro. The official story was that Joe Biden’s trip was cut short last week due to COVID. However, according to this source, US Secret Service informed LV Metro that there was an emergency situation involving Joe Biden and to close necessary streets so that POTUS could be transported immediately to University Medical, which they began to do in earnest. Then, mysteriously, there was a stand down order and the USSS informed local Vegas PD that they were going to “medivac” POTUS to Johns Hopkins, which they presumed meant fly him back east ASAP. Apparently the rumor mill in the police department was that Joe Biden was dying or possibly already dead.
I didn’t think too much about this lead, seemed too wild to be true, but given that Joe Biden has been out of public sight for days and dropped out of the race via an X post, and his brother James indicated health was a factor, I’m beginning to grow more curious if COVID or something else has been more serious than reported.

Within a few hours, Jordan Schachtel claimed to have confirmed Kirk’s account of the incident. In addition to saying police sources in Vegas stood by this version of events, Schachtel noted that (a) the local NBC affiliate in Vegas, KSNV-TV, reported: “Law enforcement and medical teams gathered outside the University Medical Center trauma room entrance” Wednesday in anticipation that Biden would be brought there; and (b) “Emily Goodin, the senior White House correspondent for The Daily Mail, reported that on the journey back east, Air Force One ‘flew so fast the plane shook,’ arriving in Dover in just 3 hours and 48 minutes.”

But now comes the headline from “fact-checker” Snopes:

Unfounded Rumor Says Biden
Had Undisclosed Medical Emergency
in Vegas Mid-July 2024

And . . . they got nothing. Which is to say, Snopes has in no way debunked or refuted anything said by Charlie Kirk or Jordan Schachtel. All they have done is to apply the pejorative label “unfounded rumor” to the story, as if this were sufficient to disprove it. As “journalism,” what Snopes does is so shoddy that no reputable reporter would work there.

You don’t have to be a “conspiracy theorist” to believe what people are telling Charlie Kirk and Jordan Schachtel about what happened in Vegas. The verifiable facts — emergency preparations at the hospital and the unusually fast Air Force One flight back to Delaware — can be interpreted as White House staff acting “with an abundance of caution” in regard to a health problem for the 81-year-old president. Joe gets a case of sniffles, the doctor is called in, the staff initiates “standard protocols,” and what do you think that looks like? Exactly what Kirk and Schachtel reported.

What editor at Snopes decided that this needed to be “fact-checked,” and why? Isn’t it simply an attempt to smear “right wing” sources, an effort to discredit those outside the media establishment who dare to point out facts that don’t fit the official Democrat-approved narrative?

We are supposed to just smile and nod amiably, to accept without question whatever we are told by Approved Media Outlets, and never even wonder if maybe there are some things they’re not telling us. That’s why they have “fact-checkers” constantly monitoring the Internet to make sure that nobody posts an “unfounded rumor” which might undermine or contradict the (apparently fragile) version of reality promoted by Approved Media Outlets, as if the world might collapse into confusion were any doubt permitted to go un-fact-checked.

Yeah, fact-check that, you assholes.



 

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