re: #30 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Right-wing media really jumping on the Politifact evaluation of Biden’s claim that the US turned down WHO tests. Politifact rated the claim “mostly false”.

Of course these sites ignore all the times Politifact rated Trump straight up “false”.

In regards to Biden, Politifact points out that there was no explicit offer by the WHO to provide the US kits. But as also noted, the WHO Americas office is set up to help those countries without a virology capability themselves, and since the US has such a capability it is not normal for the WHO to then provide the US with such aid.

I do wish that Biden would have been better briefed. What Biden should have said is that the Trump administration should have asked the WHO in the first place.

There is no way to parse every syllable that comes out of your mouth in a live situation. I get what you are saying but really, there’s just no way to do that.

I record a lot of my meetings and then go back and listen and it is amazing what is said in a moment. I know some things I said was flat out wrong…but it was how I said it and it was in the moment, and it simply came out wrong. But that wrong was still wrong. It is in no way indicative that I didn’t know what I was talking about, it was the words that fell out of my mouth…in that moment.