Cannot access remote git repository

Cannot access remote git repository

I created a git repo via the github website's "new button". Then I used
git bash to set up my local repo and tried to pull my remote repo(it had
the default README) but got an "access denied error", the same one seen in
this question: Cannot push to git repository - permission denied
I followed https://help.github.com/articles/set-up-git#platform-windows,
even reopened a new git bash session but I still get access errors on my
remote repo. I chmod 777 on my local repo so it's not a local problem
either.