(12-28-2021 10:41 AM)Rice93 Wrote:  The author made it sound like Biden was wrong about tear gas. I don't know if that was intentional or just confusing wording.

As to your questions, Biden, like most of us, should take a pause before assigning guilt or innocence WRT breaking news stories. Because he is POTUS he should be especially careful about this. I agree that he should change his approach.

The specific sentence is this:

"Biden repeated the now debunked claim that the park was cleared with tear gas to enable a photo op for President Trump."

The park *was* cleared (in part) with (limited) use of tear gas (by non-Federal personnel, and not at the behest of Federal government request).

The important part of the Biden claim was "to enable a photo op".

If one chooses to blindly omit everything past the 'tear gas' phrase, then you would be correct in your analysis. And further, when one omits everything past the 'tear gas' phrase the sentence that is left is truthful.

When one reads and analyzes the entire sentence, the claim is false. *That* is the problem with Biden's claim. It is actually immaterial as to the fact that CS gas was used.

Think of this:

'Tanq uses liquid chlorine in his pool to kill puppies'

The sentence of 'Tanq uses liquid chlorine in his pool' is true --- I dont use it to kill puppies so it is overall false.

If one were to state *Well*, Tanq *actually* uses liquid chlorine in his pool' as a defense of the overall statement, that is a really misleading and misguided defense of the overall statement.