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Hack Fact Checker Flubs the Facts Again in Explaining Away Biden’s Latest Gaffe

Published On: 2. September 2022 17:38

Hack Fact Checker Flubs the Facts Again in Explaining Away Biden's Latest Gaffe

In a desperate effort to hit a writing quota, PolitiFact’s Gabrielle Settles decided to fact check Dan Bongino for committing the crime of reacting to ridiculous comments from Joe Biden without actually addressing what Dan said.

 

Dan Bongino questioned Biden’s comments about the obstacles Black Americans have faced in the housing market. Bongino said those comments showed a pattern of racist remarks— but history and statistics show that Black homeowners have indeed faced issues. https://t.co/teoQnHVVrd

— Gabrielle Settles (@GPSettles) September 1, 2022

In a recent speech, Biden had his latest „poor kids are just as bright and talented as white kids“ style gaffe, in which he presented the wealth disparity between whites, Blacks, and Hispanic Americans as being to the extent that Blacks and Hispanics don’t own homes. Biden was making the case for his student loan debt bailout, and speaking about how black and Hispanic students owe more in debt on average, stating at one point; „They don’t own their homes to borrow against to be able to pay for college. And the pandemic only made things worse.“

Dan reacted on his show; „Here’s Biden giving his spiel, a bunch of B.S. yesterday about this student loan program, and again invoking Black America, suggesting that if you’re Black it’s harder for you to own a home or you don’t own a home. What the hell is this guy talking about?“ 

In response, Settles wrote the following paragraph, which is bafflingly presented as a rebuttal: 

 

But Bongino’s skepticism about Black homeownership is not backed by statistics. In the U.S., homeownership for white, non-Hispanic Americans is 73.3%, compared with 42.1% for Black Americans, according to 2020 figures from USAFacts, a nonpartisan government data initiative. 

What exactly is „Bongino’s skepticism about Black homeownership?“ Dan was mocking Biden for implying that Blacks don’t own homes, and then Settles presents statistics showing that they do in fact own homes. 

Biden’s argument is an odd one to make, as I don’t know how many people Biden thinks are going to college on a home equity line of credit their parents took out for them – but the figure is fewer than 1% according to a 2017 Sallie Mae study. The reason that families that own homes will have children with lower student debt burdens isn’t because they’re borrowing against their home, it’s because families with homes tend to have more wealth in the first place. 

To be fair, earlier in the speech Biden did argue that student debt itself was an impediment to Black and Hispanic home ownership, but he then argued the opposite, that a lack of home ownership was an impediment to Blacks and Hispanics going to school will lower debt levels (as you can read in the transcript below). The prior context doesn’t alter his gaffe, as they’re two seperate arguments. 

Since Biden can hardly be trusted to speak intelligibly, Settles spends the rest of her fact check interpreting Biden’s comment as arguing that Whites have higher homeownership rates than Blacks and Hispanics. How sad is it that Biden gaffes so routinely that fact checkers believe they can accurately translate them?

Matt Palumbo is the author of The Man Behind the Curtain: Inside the Secret Network of George Soros


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