The White House is slamming the New York Post for pushing out a video on social media, and later a canopy story, claiming that President Joe Biden wandered off as he and different world leaders watched a skydiving demonstration on the G7 summit in Italy.
The Submit video got here with the message, “President Biden appeared to get lost on the G7 summit in Italy, with officers needing to drag him again to focus.”
However White Home spokesman Andrew Bates famous that the video that the Submit shared was cropped, lacking the context of what Biden was doing: Talking and congratulating one other skydiver as a number of the different world leaders have been observing a separate diver.
Bates shared the video with the broader angle and wrote, “The Murdoch shops are so determined to distract from @POTUS‘s report that they simply lie. Right here, they use an artificially slim body to cover from viewers that he simply noticed a skydiving demonstration. He’s saying congratulations to one of many divers and giving a thumbs up.” Bates additionally included the Submit’s video edit.
The video was shared throughout media on the proper, together with for a digital story written for Sinclair Broadcast Group‘s The Nationwide Desk for posting on native station web sites. That story picked up on the Submit’s cropped video. The story additionally referred to claims of an incident final week of Biden at D-Day celebrations. The video confirmed Biden pausing earlier than sitting, in what proper wing figures claimed was the president’s confusion over a non-existent chair. In reality, an extended model of the video exhibits the president’s pause was as Secretary of Protection Lloyd Austin was about to be launched. The video then confirmed Biden taking his seat in that very spot.
The New York Submit additionally featured the G7 incident for the duvet of its print version, with the headline, “Meander in Chief.”
Bates later wrote on X, “Rupert Murdoch stays jealous of a youthful man operating a extra advanced operation.”
A spokesperson for the Submit, owned by Information Corp., didn’t return a request for remark, nor did a spokesperson for Information Corp.
“Beware low-cost fakes … and all of the dangerous religion actors who submit them,” wrote White Home Communications Director Ben LaBolt.
Final week, Sinclair stations picked up a narrative in The Wall Road Journal that reported that Biden was “slipping,” with accounts of the president throughout sure conferences with lawmakers. However the White Home and different critics famous that the story included just one crucial on-the-record supply, former Home Speaker Kevin McCarthy.
The positioning Well-liked Data compiled videos of Sinclair anchors in numerous markets studying equivalent copy in regards to the Journal story. Morning Joe, amongst different shops, featured the compilation.
Sinclair called the criticisms “outrageous and offensive” and claimed that it had “lined this story from either side of the political aisle.” The script included a number of the pushback from Democrats over the Journal story. The station group additionally defended the usage of the identical script throughout stations, calling it a “frequent apply within the trade” and noting that associates “usually use a preproduced script for a package deal that has been supplied by a distinct media supply.
