Because the only thing I hate more than misinformation is myself, I wasted part of my life tracking down the original source. Vid is youtube.com/watch?v=1_hCPYOv…, verbal misfires starts at 1:00:00. Note how much context they had to cut to make it look worse than it was

57-60: Discussion of how minority veterans are dying at a higher rate from COVID due to systemic factors, like underemployment 60-61: Gaffe 61-63: Discussion of how a critical part of veteran health is connecting people to the right jobs, which requires more funding for the VA

This is all an off-the-cuff answer to a question on veteran retraining (from rev.com/blog/transcripts/joe…). As a person who's done a lot of interviews, everybody makes verbal misfires in off-the-cuff speaking. If they can only find one example in an hour interview, that's pretty good

Why am I fact-checking obviously bad-faith propaganda? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

"Must thoroughly fact-check all claims, no matter how ridiculous" is my supervillain weakness