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Fun with Fact-checkers...

HoustonHusky
HoustonHusky Member Posts: 6,000
I laughed when someone here used an online "factcheck" to "prove" something, only to read the actual fact-checking and discover all their actual proof was before the incident in question thereby reinforcing the idea of fraud...

But on top of that, it reinforced the notion of how enamored with one's own false intellect these people have to be to think that they should be considered the online "factchecker" to begin with, whether it be FactCheck.org, Punditfact, or even the nutjobs at Media Matters. Case in point is the latest between the Federalist and "PunditFact", on how sheer statement of facts that the writer of Punditfact admits are "clearly accurate and "technically true" still get a rating from them of "Mostly False" because, well, the factchecker didn't want to admit the truth.

Funny read...
PunditFact: A Case Study In Fact-Free Hackery

Comments

  • 2001400ex
    2001400ex Member Posts: 29,457
    I like to call fact check.org into question because one person doesn't like punditfact.org. cause that's what I like to do.
  • HoustonHusky
    HoustonHusky Member Posts: 6,000
    Says the guy so FS he can't understand a simple timeline...
  • 2001400ex
    2001400ex Member Posts: 29,457
    Says the guy so FS he can't understand charity.
  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 114,820 Founders Club
    4 Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

    5 Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;

    6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;

    7 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

    8 Charity never faileth:
  • greenblood
    greenblood Member Posts: 14,565
    2001400ex said:

    Says the guy so FS he can't understand charity.

    Please...............explain
  • sarktastic
    sarktastic Member Posts: 9,208
    Please.............explain
  • 2001400ex
    2001400ex Member Posts: 29,457
    Look. We all know the foundation's primary purpose is to siphon funds to the Clintons. But you have to be fucking stupid if you think the only charity work they do is grants to other organizations.
  • sarktastic
    sarktastic Member Posts: 9,208
    If true, why don't they report it that way on their federal tax returns?
  • 2001400ex
    2001400ex Member Posts: 29,457

    If true, why don't they report it that way on their federal tax returns?

    Cause they don't have the power to change the reporting requirements on the 990, that's kinda the responsibility of the IRS. And I'm the one with the 8th grade education.
  • CaptainPJ
    CaptainPJ Member Posts: 2,986

    I laughed when someone here used an online "factcheck" to "prove" something, only to read the actual fact-checking and discover all their actual proof was before the incident in question thereby reinforcing the idea of fraud...

    But on top of that, it reinforced the notion of how enamored with one's own false intellect these people have to be to think that they should be considered the online "factchecker" to begin with, whether it be FactCheck.org, Punditfact, or even the nutjobs at Media Matters. Case in point is the latest between the Federalist and "PunditFact", on how sheer statement of facts that the writer of Punditfact admits are "clearly accurate and "technically true" still get a rating from them of "Mostly False" because, well, the factchecker didn't want to admit the truth.

    Funny read...
    PunditFact: A Case Study In Fact-Free Hackery

    Drunk.posting.rules
  • HoustonHusky
    HoustonHusky Member Posts: 6,000
    CaptainPJ said:

    I laughed when someone here used an online "factcheck" to "prove" something, only to read the actual fact-checking and discover all their actual proof was before the incident in question thereby reinforcing the idea of fraud...

    But on top of that, it reinforced the notion of how enamored with one's own false intellect these people have to be to think that they should be considered the online "factchecker" to begin with, whether it be FactCheck.org, Punditfact, or even the nutjobs at Media Matters. Case in point is the latest between the Federalist and "PunditFact", on how sheer statement of facts that the writer of Punditfact admits are "clearly accurate and "technically true" still get a rating from them of "Mostly False" because, well, the factchecker didn't want to admit the truth.

    Funny read...
    PunditFact: A Case Study In Fact-Free Hackery

    Scotch.rules
    Fixed
  • MisterEm
    MisterEm Member Posts: 6,685
    8th grade education is starting to sound like Owen12....



    Christ.