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WHEN a Progressive uses POLITIFACT to "prove their point" they display total DESPERATION
All errors are lies. Understand that PolitiFact and others in the fact checking business call any false statement a lie, whether there was an intent to deceive or not. Thus if you took a school test and scored 80%, then you lied about 20% of the questions. That meaning of lie as any falsehood has made it into the dictionary, so I don't question it here. Just important to understand the hyperbolic prose. there is some tendency to reserve the word lie for what fact checkers think is a major falsehood, but none attempt to prove an intent to deceive.
Politifact has moved sharply left. PolitiFact began as a relatively impartial fact checker. “As a partnership of Congressional Quarterly and the Tampa Bay Times (then the St. Petersburg Times) formed in 2007, the outfit won a Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of the 2008 election. The partnership dissolved shortly after when The Poynter Institute, the parent company of both outfits sold off CQ. ...The Florida journalists carried on alone, and their liberal tendencies became more obvious as the “Pants on Fire” rulings piled up on one side.” [3. http://www.humanevents.com...] Incidentally, Politifact won it's Pulitzer prize the year after the CEO of Times Publishing was appointed to the Pulitzer board. [4. http://www.americanthinker.com...]
Politifact is biased, not crazy. PolitiFact is sometimes correct in their judgements. Nonetheless, they are incapable of being consistently impartial because of their ideological slant. Moreover, to maintain any pretense of impartiality, they have to find some fault with Democrats. No one would believe that there is any large class of politicians that is always truthful. All need to prove is that they are overall biased in favor of Democrats over Republicans.
http://www.debate.org/debates/Politifact-is-biased/1/
All errors are lies. Understand that PolitiFact and others in the fact checking business call any false statement a lie, whether there was an intent to deceive or not. Thus if you took a school test and scored 80%, then you lied about 20% of the questions. That meaning of lie as any falsehood has made it into the dictionary, so I don't question it here. Just important to understand the hyperbolic prose. there is some tendency to reserve the word lie for what fact checkers think is a major falsehood, but none attempt to prove an intent to deceive.
Politifact has moved sharply left. PolitiFact began as a relatively impartial fact checker. “As a partnership of Congressional Quarterly and the Tampa Bay Times (then the St. Petersburg Times) formed in 2007, the outfit won a Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of the 2008 election. The partnership dissolved shortly after when The Poynter Institute, the parent company of both outfits sold off CQ. ...The Florida journalists carried on alone, and their liberal tendencies became more obvious as the “Pants on Fire” rulings piled up on one side.” [3. http://www.humanevents.com...] Incidentally, Politifact won it's Pulitzer prize the year after the CEO of Times Publishing was appointed to the Pulitzer board. [4. http://www.americanthinker.com...]
Politifact is biased, not crazy. PolitiFact is sometimes correct in their judgements. Nonetheless, they are incapable of being consistently impartial because of their ideological slant. Moreover, to maintain any pretense of impartiality, they have to find some fault with Democrats. No one would believe that there is any large class of politicians that is always truthful. All need to prove is that they are overall biased in favor of Democrats over Republicans.
http://www.debate.org/debates/Politifact-is-biased/1/