On Tuesday, PolitiFact showed why Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg was right to end the company’s partnership with its fact-checking partners. Writer Caleb McCullough gave Donald Trump Jr. a “false” rating because he ran afoul of his preferred experts while ignoring experts who may have given him another perspective. Meanwhile, on Wednesday, ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel claimed during an attack on Speaker Mike Johnson that snow in the South is proof climate change is real.
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Some experts are apparently more valuable than others. Meanwhile, PolitiFact hasn’t fact-checked Jimmy Kimmel since 2019, but they may want to after Wednesday night. During an interview with Fox’s Sean Hannity, Johnson declared, “Yeah, we're talking about conditions to this disaster aid. Look, they're natural disasters, but there are man-made disasters as well.”
Putting the conditions debate to one side, Johnson is correct and, as noted above, it is not science denialism to say so. However, Kimmel angrily retorted, “And which one are you? Because you would think, as people living in an area prone to wildfires, we'd get a bit more sympathy from an elf who lives in a hollowed-out tree, but that doesn't fly in MAGAland. Mike Johnson is such a little kiss-ass. I've been trying to figure out who he reminds me of.”
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