Biden's false cannibal story described as a simple ‘misstatement,’ ‘off on the details’ by the media

Some media outlets reported on President Biden telling an odd cannibal story twice on Wednesday as a "misstatement" rather than an outright lie, which critics say is different from how Trump is normally treated.

While in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Biden shared a story about his uncle, 2nd Lt. Ambrose J. Finnegan Jr., whom he called "Bosie."

"He flew those single-engine planes as reconnaissance over war zones, and he got shot down in New Guinea. They never found the body because there used to be, there were a lot of cannibals, for real, in that part of New Guinea," he said.

Biden also told a version of the story earlier that day while visiting the missing-in-action war memorial in his hometown of Scranton claiming, "He got shot down in an area where there were a lot of cannibals in New Guinea at the time. They never recovered [Finnegan's] body. But the government went back, when I went down there, and they checked and found some parts of the plane and the like."

BIDEN'S FICTIONAL TALES FACT-CHECKED BY WAPO, NY TIMES BUT OUTLETS STOP SHORT OF DECLARING THEM 'LIES'

Though military records from the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency showed that Biden’s uncle died after a plane crash in the Pacific Ocean with no reference to possible cannibalism, several outlets stopped short of calling it a lie.

In contrast, NewsBusters managing editor Curtis Houck told Fox News Digital, when it comes to "the likes of Donald Trump, the knee-jerk instinct is to use the word 'lie.'"

A headline for NBC on Wednesday read, "Biden mischaracterizes his uncle's disappearance during World War II," and noted that Biden "was drawing a contrast between the military service of his family and Trump’s inflammatory rhetoric about military members."

Though NBC