PolitiFact Slams Associating Joe Biden with 'KKK Leader' Robert Byrd

Twitchy editor Greg Pollowitz noted on Saturday that PolitiFact is so senstive about Joe Biden that it gave a "Mostly False" rating to a Facebook post showing a photo of Biden holding hands with former Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd: "PolitiFact has done it again, this time ruling that a 100% real photo of Joe Biden with former KKK leader Robert Byrd is mostly false because the caption referred to Byrd as a Grand Wizard and not his correct title of Exalted Cyclops."

PolitiFact's Ciara O'Rourke introduced an objection to a post with about 1,400 shares on Facebook by the Enlisted Nine Fight Company, a veteran-owned apparel business:

An old photograph of former Vice President Joe Biden has been circulating online as some social media users try to tie the Democratic presidential candidate to the KKK.

The black and white photo beneath the words shows Biden holding hands with then-Democratic U.S. Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia, who the post identifies as a "KKK leader."

The post, which had been shared more than 1,400 times by Aug. 15, was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed.

PolitiFact acknowledged that the photo was real, taken by Associated Press in 2008. And they acknowledged Byrd's membership in the KKK in the 1940s, organizing a 150-person chapter in West Virginia and serving as an "Exalted Cyclops." But they can't ignore what isn't true in this meme -- that Byrd wasn't a KKK leader in 2008. "Mostly False" translates to "Democrats are mostly virtuous."

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He wasn't a Grand Wizard, but ONLY an Exalted Cyclops? I guess that makes him okay, then. Never mind that he was a WHITE DEMOCRAT that chose to wear his bed sheets and hate black people. He wasn't a Grand Wizard, so it's okay.