The New York Times will be sending 29 fact-checkers to Thursday's debate between President Biden and former President Trump on CNN. You read that right, 29 of them.

The Times said the fact-checkers will join a team of 31 reporters and editorial staff it will use to cover the landmark debate. Revealed Monday.

The editorial resources they devote to maintaining the integrity of candidates is greater than the entire roster of major league players.

Given these extraordinary numbers, it might seem wise to split the votes evenly, with 15 for Trump and 14 for Biden.

But… do you really think all 29 of them are going to be impartial? Sure, a few of them might call balls and strikes, but given this newspaper's history of so-called fact-checking, I wouldn't count on it.

In 2023, during a Fox News debate between Democratic California Governor Gavin Newsom and Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, The New York Times reported that DeSantis made claims that were “false,” but was later forced to retract the claims, calling them “misleading.”

The Times quoted Governor DeSantis as claiming that “Florida's standardized COVID-19 death rate was lower than California's. … California's excess death rate was higher than Florida's.”

However, according to an analysis by Check Your Fact: revealThe Times's venerable arbiters of context omitted important context themselves: They completely omitted the surrounding language of the quotes about the legitimate studies that DeSantis cited as sources. (Related article: Seven years later, Snopes finally corrects the record on infamous Trump hoax case)

“In fact, The Lancet just did a study. Florida's standardized Covid-19 death rate was lower than California's. This is a Lancet study,” was DeSantis' full argument. The Gray Lady completely ignored the fact that he was citing credible publications to back up his numbers.

After Check Your Fact published its analysis, the Times updated its fact check from “false” to “misleading” and released the following statement: “The numbers the Governor referenced take into account the relative overall health of Florida and California, taking into account obesity, diabetes and other conditions that increase the risk of death from Covid-19. In this scenario, which takes into account the poorer overall health of Florida residents, Florida's Covid-19 death rate was lower than California's.”

Another egregious example of the New York Times' clearly biased fact-checking was its misguided attempt to correct DeSantis' error when, during a 2023 Republican primary debate, DeSantis claimed, “If you look at the threats that we face, you see terrorists coming in from our southern border.”

A quick fact check would reveal that this statement is objectively true, and one phone call with a border patrol officer who doesn't lie would put a humble bow on this fact check.

However, the Times chose to brand the claim false and mislead its readers: “Since 1975, no one in the United States has been killed or injured in a terrorist attack involving someone who crossed the border illegally, according to Alex Nowrasteh, vice president for economic and social policy studies at the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank,” wrote The Times' Eileen Sullivan.

But where in DeSantis' allegedly false statement does it say that people have been killed in terrorist attacks involving people who crossed the border illegally? Answer: It doesn't. The Times has completely shifted the goalposts.

“Between 1975 and 2022, nine foreign-born terrorists entered the United States illegally. Three of the nine convicted illegal immigrant terrorists entered illegally across the U.S.-Mexico border,” Alex Nowrasteh wrote in a Cato study cited by The New York Times.

It is an insult to its readers that The New York Times would declare a claim false and then provide evidence that has absolutely no bearing on the original claim. And the claim that The New York Times denied remains true despite police arrests of several prominent ISIS associates who crossed the border in June. Living well On their website. (Related article: Senator Mike Lee says one of Biden's border projects will make it much easier for terrorists to enter the US)

Given the left-wing media's frequent refusal to deal with the truth in recent years, we're likely to see the New York Times subject Trump's most fluid and off-the-cuff utterances to legal scrutiny while Biden is largely and mercilessly ignored. Why the 29 members of the New York Times' elite truth squad need to be prepared for partisan hacking is anyone's guess. But if you have money, go for it.