Remember when Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said, “I sent planes to Israel and took over 700 people to safety.”
Well, according to NBC’s “fact check,” the presidential candidate was half-lying when he made that claim at the recent GOP debate.
You see, and this may surprise you, Ron DeSantis didn’t actually get on a plane and personally fly these people home.
He paid the pilots to do it. So… it’s only “half-truth”.
“I kid you not,” he wrote Jonathan Turley, who criticized the network for its “strange ‘fact checking.’
NBC stated that DeSantis half lied when he claimed to have organized the deportation of hundreds of American citizens from Israel. The network said it was only “half-true” because someone else flew the planes, DeSantis just supplied the money. I’m not kidding you. https://t.co/U86FeYwuly
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) November 12, 2023
“DeSantis signed an executive order allowing the Florida Division of Emergency Management to pay for Americans in Israel to fly to the US,” NBC’s Peter W. Klein said. reported. “But the flights were organized by a non-profit organization and DeSantis’ primary role was to fund the flights.”
“So how is it a ‘half-truth’ to say ‘I shuffled resources to Florida? I sent planes to Israel and flew over 700 people to safety?’ Turley asked. “He even made direct references to supplying ‘the resources’ for flights”.
“The correction also involves millions of parents who regularly say they ‘brought the kids home’ for the holidays,” Turley noted. “NBC suggests you say, ‘I supplied money to enable my children to buy tickets for United Airlines to take them home.'” However, it wasn’t the company as a whole that literally flew them back, so you might want to say “have United Airlines employees take them home.”
Next, Turley suggested, NBC might go after those “Jesus Is My Copilot” bumper stickers.
“Not only are cars incapable of sustained flight,” he said, “but Jesus is not even licensed in any state to drive a motor vehicle.”
“For NBC, stating this as a half-truth is still preferable to saying it’s true, especially when the statement was preceded by a criticism of President Joe Biden by stating that”[President] Biden’s negligence has been egregious, we had Floridians who were there after the attack. He left them stranded; they couldn’t get flights,’” according to Turley.
“I’d say NBC is half lying,” one user told X.
“I’d say that rating is being generous to NBC,” another responded.
“NBC certainly hates DeSantis, but it’s not about scrutinizing him,” said a third. “It’s about insulting the public’s intelligence. That’s an argument a five-year-old would make.”
I’d say the rating is to be generous with NBC.
— Agent Ohm (@FLOPPER87) November 12, 2023
NBC certainly hates DeSantis, but it’s not about scrutinizing him. It’s about insulting the public’s intelligence. This is an argument a five-year-old would make.
“You didn’t fly to Disneyland, you flew in a plane, but the pilot flew it, big liar”— Bobby Beefing (@BobbyBeefing) November 12, 2023
According to Turley, “NBC’s fact-checking brings new meaning to Benjamin Franklin’s admonition that ‘Half the truth is often a big lie.’
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