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Habebe
Member
Sat Nov 28 21:43:28
http://www...k-fact-checker-politifact/amp/

This is the sort of shit I made a thread about before. This isnt a one time deal, these " facts" they proclaim are routinely false or misleading.

Now I'm not sure if its intentionally to inflate conservative lies or if it's that they just actually beleive their own BS and seek out sources to prove themselves rifht rather than seek out the truth.

This particular post is nit picky. But in all fairness its atleast as nitpicky to fact check it as false.
tumbleweed
the wanderer
Sat Nov 28 22:01:43
so a fact-checker made a mistake & fixed it
(when has Trump done that)

given the constant spewing of bullshit, not surprising they'd make an occasional mistake
habebe
Member
Sat Nov 28 23:06:22
The issue is that these " fact checking" orginizations are routinely wrong and routinely anti conservative.

Plus they are supposed to be the auditors of the news. So you one would think they would be overly accurate.
tumbleweed
the wanderer
Sat Nov 28 23:37:34
it's the 'president' who is routinely wrong yet you're cool w/ it for some reason

and it's the cultists who are routinely posting bullshit... what labeling seems like it's about being conservative?

kargen
Member
Sat Nov 28 23:59:09
Still can't help yourself can ya tumbleweed.

I swear we could be talking about our favorite breakfast cereals and you would use the thread to blame world hunger on President Trump.

and it doesn't matter who is posting bullshit the fact checkers are supposed to check the bullshit not add to it. It is right there in their job description.

It would have taken them less than a minute to determine President-elect Biden isn't officially President-elect Biden. They should have fuckin known without having to check.
Habebe
Member
Sun Nov 29 00:26:47
"and it doesn't matter who is posting bullshit the fact checkers are supposed to check the bullshit not add to it. It is right there in their job description."

See, this is my point. Its like a cashier and an auditor. Who is supposed to be more accurate? Clearly the auditor.

Politicians lie, misspeak, misinterpret, Take outnof context and mislead constantly.

The thing is they make Trump out to be unique.Like he lies infinitely more than the rest.In context, I dont think that's the case.

1. He exaggerates, thats his style, everything is the greatest or the worst. Now its my perception that this sort of a lie is actually more common than you think. Does every politician really think they're going to win? Did Mondale? No, but at a campaign rally they tell their followers as such.

2. He talks.more than any potus in my life time. He is tweeting and speaking like everyday. That should be taken into account.

3. These auditors of truth are usually bias and misrepresent facts.

But it goes way past Trump, it also goes past just theae sites.

Who would have thought a platform like Twitter would *ban the White House Press Secretary for posting a news article from the NY post*

Think of how insane that is.

That would be like CBS refusing to air a press secretary's speech because LBJ's press.sec. held up a newspaper they disagreed with.

Its out of pocket.
earthpig
GTFO HOer
Sun Nov 29 00:48:21
"Who would have thought a platform like Twitter would *ban the White House Press Secretary for posting a news article from the NY post*

Think of how insane that is."

Yup, the outgoing reality tv star president has produced extreme outcomes in numerous things. We all knew that.
earthpig
GTFO HOer
Sun Nov 29 00:48:21
"Who would have thought a platform like Twitter would *ban the White House Press Secretary for posting a news article from the NY post*

Think of how insane that is."

Yup, the outgoing reality tv star president has produced extreme outcomes in numerous things. We all knew that.
werewolf dictator
Member
Sun Nov 29 05:08:47
'When is dropping bombs on another country not considered "hostilities"?'
~politifact

answer.. when it's a democrat giving orwellian big lie of the decade.. as in obama on libya
Dukhat
Member
Sun Nov 29 05:57:49
Republican lack of critical thinking skills.
Dukhat
Member
Sun Nov 29 06:02:16
So out of the thousands of things they fact checked, they were wrong about this and they also corrected it.

And you somehow think this debunks all fact-checking?

Goddamn, modern-day conservatives are fucking dumb.
habebe
Member
Sun Nov 29 07:06:48
Dukhat, Yes, this is the only misleading amd or false fact check.....*slather on the sarcasm*
habebe
Member
Sun Nov 29 07:27:06
Case in point: PolitiFact called a 2012 Mitt Romney campaign ad its "lie of the year" for a statement about Jeeps being made in China. PolitiFact admitted that the "lie" in the ad was actually the "literal truth."

http://www...rials/fact-checkers-big-media/

I posted a short list of false.fact checks against Trump not too long ago....if Im not lazy about it I'll find a couple again, its never that difficult.
tumbleweed
the wanderer
Sun Nov 29 12:07:54
"The thing is they make Trump out to be unique."

he is


"Like he lies infinitely more than the rest."

he does


"In context, I dont think that's the case."

you are wrong


the best argument you -could- make is they aren't technically lies as he doesn't know the truth as he's a fucking moron & delusional
tumbleweed
the wanderer
Sun Nov 29 12:17:56
which of Trump's hundreds/thousands of election fraud/rigging/stealing tweets has evil Mitch retweeted or endorsed? (or any R who isn't someone who goes on Fox to praise the king)

& why aren't they doing it?

same for all the other crazy bullshit he's posted over the years... like all his Obamagate nonsense

why aren't non-cultist R's endorsing it?

(it's total bullshit is the answer)
Forwyn
Member
Sun Nov 29 17:26:58
"so a fact-checker made a mistake & fixed it"

But rated a post anyway, reaching potentially millions, before the error was corrected.

These are the faggots who will be posthumously called "intellectuals" after they get gassed
tumbleweed
the wanderer
Sun Nov 29 19:02:29
who is looking at a Candace Owens video & caring how a fact-checker rates it?

& yes, fact-checkers can make errors
Forwyn
Member
Sun Nov 29 21:01:21
Less and less people clearly, as "fact-checkers" aren't even expected to have a base-level grasp of Constitutional election text before passing their very publicly amplified judgment.
tumbleweed
the wanderer
Sun Nov 29 21:44:41
there are heaps of crazy allegations being made by team Trump (particularly by Trump himself... which is totally absurd, btw), this likely seemed like just another one especially since it's not typical that we wait for the electoral college to vote to say who won

(maybe people in 2016 hoped the EC would save us from an unfit idiot but they weren't saying he hadn't won the election)
Dukhat
Member
Sun Nov 29 23:28:01
This is modern conservativism. Moron reactionaries like Foreskin who blow small things out of proportion.
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