Diary of disturbing disinformation and dangerous delusions
With the presidential campaigns and President Biden’s historic, last-minute pullout, 2024 was quite a year — for fibs, lies, gaslighting and truly wacky statements, that is.
Here are our picks for the absolute worst of them.
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
#1
“[Biden’s] sharp as a tack.”
— Countless media and lefties throughout the year
We say: President Biden himself proved that beyond false during his debate with Donald Trump.
Turns out he was so “sharp” that his own party forced him to quit the race.
#2
“She wasn’t the border czar.”
— ABC’s Jon Karl, Aug. 11
We say: Funny. Just a year earlier, Karl was explaining that Biden “put Kamala Harris in, uh, playing a critical role in terms of trying to stop the flow of migrants across the border.”
#3
“We’ve seen grocery prices come down over the past year or more.”
— WH Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, Aug. 30
We say: If Jean-Pierre saw prices falling, she must’ve been standing on her head — because they actually went up.
Faster than in decades.
#4
“Those [pro-Hamas protesters] down the street, they have a point.”
— President Biden at the Democratic convention, Aug. 19
We say: Uh, no. Pro-terror protesters are deranged, morally abhorrent goons.
And Biden’s remark was outrageous.
#5
“We have . . . young black kids growing up in The Bronx who don’t even know what the word ‘computer’ is.”
— Gov. Hochul, May 6
We say: As The Post’s Adam B. Coleman noted at the time, this wasn’t a gaffe but “a window into the mindset of many mainstream elitist Democrats” — even if the gov later took back her idiotic slur.
#6
“Kamala Harris is defying the laws of the political universe.”
— Politico, Aug. 13
We say: Hmm: The November results showed she wasn’t so much defying political reality as being shielded by reality-denying media.
#7
“Precedent by a court doesn’t matter anymore in this country. . . . People violate laws anytime they want.”
— Pa. Democratic County Commissioner Diane Ellis-Marseglia, Nov. 14
We say: Democrats scream about democracy, but when a Republican, Dave McCormick, narrowly beat Pennsylvania Dem Sen. Bob Casey in the race for his seat, Dems like Ellis-Marseglia sought to count ballots the state’s top court had already disqualified (twice!) to overturn the results.
What hypocrites.
#8
“We have been enforcing the law from Day 1.”
— DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, May 21
We say: The November results are clear proof that Mayorkas’ bald-faced lies about border enforcement couldn’t fool all the people all the time.
#9
“Republicans want to kill your kids.”
— Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin, Nov. 19
We say: Rather than accept the November results, Trump-haters like Rubin doubled down — resorting to crass, hyperbolic fearmongering in a desperate bid to block the incoming prez’s agenda.
#10
“Allowing Trump to hold an event at MSG is equivalent to the infamous Nazis rally at Madison Square Garden on February 20, 1939.”
— State Sen. Brad Hoylman-Sigal, in an Oct. 9 tweet
We say: The radical prog actually demanded Madison Square Garden cancel this Trump event.
Ironically, it’s Hoylman-Sigal’s call to suppress his opponents that’s really reminiscent of Hitler’s Germany.
#11
“I took action to make our subways safer . . . [Now] crime is going down, and ridership is going up.”
— Gov. Hochul, Sunday
We say: On the very day a suspected illegal immigrant fatally torches a woman on the F train, the gov opts to brag of her “successful” crackdown on subway crime. Talk about out of touch!
#12
“We have a real contrast to be made — what I did in four years and what’s going to happen in the next four years.”
— President Biden, Dec. 18
We say: For once, we agree! Biden & Co. botched everything they touched, from the border to the economy to foreign affairs.
No way Trump (or any president) can do so much damage.
#13
“I ask you to remember the context in which you exist.” [Cackle, cackle.]
— VP Kamala Harris, Dec. 17
We say: Harris’ mindless word salads played a big role in her defeat, but that’s not stopping her from more such idiocies. Boy did America dodge a bullet.
#14
“A full moon . . . is made up mostly of gases.”
— Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, April 9
We say: Huh? Everyone knows the moon is made of cheese.