Media fact-checks long ago became nonsense. Any conservative claim, no matter how fact-based, was destined to be shot down, on some grounds, such as “lack of context” or “I don’t like it.”
Leftist claims are another matter.
Here CNN frantically tries to prop up Biden’s latest nonsense story about his Uncle Bosie being eaten by cannibals.
“And my uncle, they called him – Ambrose, they called him Bosie… and he became an Army Air Corps, before the Air Force came along, he flew those single engine planes as reconnaissance over war zones,” Biden said during remarks at the United Steelworkers Headquarters in Pittsburgh. “And he got shot down in New Guinea, and they never found the body because there used to be a lot of cannibals – for real – in that part of the New Guinea.”
There was, in fact, documented cannibalism in the region in the mid-20th century.
Well there you go.
There was cannibalism in New Guinea and Bosie’s was forced “ditch in the ocean off the north coast of New Guinea. Both engines failed at low altitude, and the aircraft’s nose hit the water hard. Three men failed to emerge from the sinking wreck and were lost in the crash. One crew member survived and was rescued by a passing barge. An aerial search the next day found no trace of the missing aircraft or the lost crew members.”
So obviously cannibals.
Bosie’s plan wasn’t shot down. And any cannibals who got to him would have to be of the aquatic kind.
There was indeed cannibalism in New Guinea but it was of the ritual kind. You can’t make a diet out of human beings for both demographic and medical reasons. Professional cannibalism will kill the cannibal.
The Japanese did practice ritual cannibalism against American POWs on occasion. There’s no particular reason to think that the locals in New Guinea were eating Uncle Bosie even in the unlikely possibility that they would have gotten to him.
Rather than call this out however, CNN decides to prop it up while running a Biden White House press release attacking Trump.
Maybe CNN can rename itself the Cannibal News Network.