Robbie Soave vs. Politi"Fact": What Was the Lie of the Year? Hiding Biden's Cognitive Decline or "They're Eating the Dogs..."?

Well, Politi"Fact" is a blue-team propaganda outfit, no different from the WaPo "Fact"-Checker, ergo no different than the WaPo. So there's nothing really surprising here.

Soave is pretty clearly right...but, damn, "they're eating the dogs...they're eating the cats..." is a pretty strong candidate. And hilarious.. Also, there's a song, which the other doesn't have at all.

   Harris offered up any number of slow, hanging pitches over the plate that Trump could have cranked out of the park...but noooo.... He couldn't resist shooting himself in the ass yet again by offering up a wild, implausible, unsubstantiated claim...which the Dems (+ the MSM, of course) then giddily cranked out of the park.

   And good on them for doing so.

   That nonsense started falling apart as soon as it hit the news.

   Incidentally, was it even a lie? Trump seemed to really believe it. Lots of people on the right believed it. Chris Rufo posted a picture of somebody grilling chickens as alleged proof of the claim...

   My guess is that in this kind of case, you can and probably play a bit loose with the lie/stupid-belief distinction.

   Clearly Biden's inner circle knew that he was slipping--apparently even before the 2020 election. So they were lying--in order to foist a dementia patient onto the country as President.

   Appalling.

   Others, e.g. rank-and-file Dems, genuinely believed the lie.

   I thought--and said here--that the right was exaggerating the degree of Biden's decline. So I largely/mostly fell for it, too. Though in my defense, the videos the righties were pointing to weren't all that convincing, and some were completely innocuous.

   Incidentally, in the 15 years PolitiFact has designated a lie of the year, it's only gone to the Democrats twice... And this despite the fact that, time, the Dems have not only given us the lie of the century--that women have penises / men can get pregnant--but many other obvious winners for any given year--e.g. Russian collusion, Hunter's laptop as Russian disinfo, cops genociding blacks in the streets, COVID lab-leak as conspiracy theory...maybe the "very fine people" hoax ought to be in contention as well... 

   Then there's the climate apocalypse...hell, that might actually be in the running for lie of the century, too...