True: First PolitiFact "Pants on Fire" rating went to Joe Biden in 2007

Contrary to a gazillion charges that I live in a conservative silo, I seek out other news sources. Yesterday there was an online town hall call, or something like that, on Twitter held by PolitiFact, which many years ago was a pretty decent site, but it is now mainly, like other "fact-checking" sources, mainly engaged in protecting the leftist narrative. 

One of the speakers, Bill Adair, was the author of the first "fact-check," which he admitted was "tounge-in-cheek," that received the first "Pants on Fire" rating as false. 

And the first recipient of that Liar-Liar award was none other than Joe Biden, who on July 4, 2007, during his painful second run for the presidency, claimed that then-President George W. Bush was "brain-dead."

From that fact-check. 

During a campaign stop in Iowa on July 4, the six-term senator declared, "This guy is brain-dead."

It's an extreme charge, since brain death is defined as "irreversible unconciousness with complete loss of brain function" (Encyclopedia of Death and Dying).

Was the "fact-check" sarcastic? Of course. But it's nonetheless telling that Biden was the first person to receive this dishonor.

There were many more lies to come. From Biden and PolitiFact.