Category: The Fact-Check Scam
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Kangaroos Everywhere
SCENE: The studio at the National Public Radio Twin Cities bureau. Mitch BERG is sitting, in headphones, in front of a microphone. Around the corner of the table is Cat SCAT, designated “fact checker” at the (possibly fictional) progressive blog “”MinnesotaLiberalAlliance.Blogspot.com“, she is the office manager at a small phrenology practice. Through the glass, an engineer, an…
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Modern Journalism: Not Just Dead, But Rotting So Hard It’s Bubbling
The KARE Bears are “fact checking” people over, apparently, a run on iodine pills. No, iodine pills won’t protect you from most radiation effects in a nuclear attack Which is true as far as it goes… ..but they’re not intended to protect you from “most radiation”. They’re intended to protect you from one particular kind…
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Meet The New Law – Not Remotely The Same As The Old Law
Back before longtime comment-section regular “Dog Gone” got irrevocably banned for life, she evinced a rhetorical pattern that, in recent years, has shown itself to be a bit of a pattern on the left, especially among left wing media, most particularly among the “Fact Check” set. We saw this behavior in many instances – but…
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Walking Back…Most Of Their Assertions, To Be Honest
I recently suggested a new on-going feature, walking back the lies. I have another item for the column. The Best and Brightest people who sneered at Conservatives as ignorant, hateful racists for suggesting the debunked idea that a lab in Wuhan was the source of the virus and the Chinese were covering it up – are walking back the…
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Fact-Checked!
Democrat run cities are crime infested hell holes. It’s not even a controversial premise. Which isn’t to say the “fact checked industry – which exist primarily to uphold, or at least try and prevent the destruction of, leftist narratives Dash isn’t going to take a run at it. From WaPo: And let’s just say that…
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It’s Only Satire…
…if you’re not paying attention.
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The Gatekeepers
As I try, in my peasant-y way, to navigate the reefs and shoals of all the “fake news” the world throws before us, I’m thankful we’ve got gatekeepers like “Snopes.com” to do our thinking for us. Q: Did U.S. Rep. @AOC repeatedly guess "free" on the TV show "The Price is Right?"A: https://t.co/95RRj4nSzs pic.twitter.com/L6KZTfjibR —…
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Almost Too Meta
So if wrote a piece about a fact-checking site “checking facts” on a satirical story, you’d either think that the “Fact Check” site was the one being satirical, or that the satire site had gone just a tad over the top. Neither is apparently the case in this story, in which Snopes “fact checks” Babylon…
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Politifact: Smear By Association
Politifact long ago gave up any claim to being non-partisan, at least among people who pay attention. Fact-checking Politi”fact” is itself a target-rich environment for fact-checkers and “progressive” dogma-untanglers. This year, they were kind of sly about it – the “winner” was “the “online smear machine” that attempted to “take down Parkland students.” They’re referring…
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Factless Check
The problem with Snopes isn’t that they’re biased to the left (although they very well may be). The problem with Snopes is – much like banished commenter Dog Gone – they seem to think “Big Left’s Current Cant” is interchangeable with fact. As we see here, it just isn’t so. Snopes.com recently fact-checked a post that…
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Facts In The Dark: If You Get Your News About Gun Crime/Laws/Owners From NPR, You Are Starting The Race With One Leg Tied Behind Your Back
Over the weekend, NPR came out with a “Fact Check” piece about whether Chicago is “proof” that gun laws don’t affect crime. Is the “fact check”, well, factual? It’s NPR and they’re talking about guns. What do you think? NPR starts with Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ post-Vegas press conference statement: “I think one of the things we don’t…
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Narrative Check
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Trump claims John Podesta barred the FBI from looking at the DNC computer. You remember that computer – not the one in Hillary’s bathroom that she wiped with a cloth, this is the DNC server that supposedly got “hacked” by the Russians to steal the Democrats’ emails, which the…
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Why I Ignore The “Journalistic Fact-Check” Racket
Politifact says President Trump is right… …rates him “mostly false” anyway. They don’t “check facts”. They ensure congruency with the narrative. No more.
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The Problem With Liberal Media Talking About “Fake News”
The left-leaning mainstream media – which has in the life of this blog: embraced (and still embraces) a “fake” but “accurate” story about George Bush’s Air Guard service that sported faked documents and references to officers who had retired from the service by the time they signed the purported document Actively colluded with the Hillary…
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Some Animals Are More Equal Than Others
I’ve been saying (and proving) for years that the mainstream media’s “Fact Check” industry is a bald-faced left-wing propaganda operation. Circumstantial evidence? Politifact has different answers for the same statement, depending on who says it:
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Verdict
First we ignore people who consider Politifact unbiased and authoritative. Then we mock people who consider Politifact unbiased and authoritative. Then we win. Gandhi was wrong. There is no “attack” phase needed.
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Utterly Unimpeachable
People – mostly Democrats – have considered “Snopes” the unimpeachable source of truth. And when you read this, it’s also worth noting they also consider Jon Stewart, NPR, Steven Colbert, Ed Schultz and Huffington Post to be news sources, too.
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The Problem With “Fact Checkers”…
…is that so many of them think “declaring what the facts are” is a substitute for “knowing what the facts are”.
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The Client Is Obviously My Client
Last week, I lit up MPR’s “Poligraph” feature for checking the “accuracy” of an utterly subjective bit of political smack-talk by GOP Gubernatorial candidate Jeff Johnson. Last Friday? Poligraph used subjectivity to “fact-check” GOP 8th CD candidate Stewart Mills. To be fair, Catherine Richert did smack down one of the Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee’s more…
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The “Fact-Check” I’ll Wait Patiently For MPR’s “Poligraph” Feature To Get Around To Doing, Part II
The Claim: Every weekend for the past forty years, Garrison Keillor has closed his “News from Lake Wobegone” segment by claiming all the men are strong, all the women are good-looking, and all the children are above-average”. But we wanted to know – is it true? The Evidence: In Keillor’s favor, we note that not…
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The “Fact-Check” I’ll Wait Patiently For MPR’s “Poligraph” Feature To Get Around To Doing
That a man’s reach exceed his grasp, etc, etc. “The Alliance for a Better Minnesota – which, as most MPR listeners are unaware, is essentially a political PR firm funded by wealthy Democrats, government employee unions, and Governor Dayton’s ex-wife Alita Messinger, has been running a well-funded advertising and social-media campaign for the past few…
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MPR: Everything Is Juuuuust Fine
Mark Twain once observed that there are three types of media “fact-check” efforts: Democrat PR puff-pieces, Bald-Faced Democrat PR puff-pieces, and legit ones. A good fact-checker will note that Twain said no such thing. My first paragraph was really a bit of hyperbole. As such, it wasn’t intended to be a “factual” statement, per se,…
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Eurasia Has Never Been At War Yadda Yadda Bla Bla
If you read this blog, you know that “Politifact”, the WaPo’s “Fact-Check” column, accepted as the sine qua non of political fact-checking by many in the industry (and more of the less-informed outside it). Those people might not know that “Politifact” has been carrying President Obama’s water on the key claims about the Democrat’s flagship Obamcare…
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Chanting Points Memo: The History Of An Illusion
To: Eric Black, MinnPost From: Mitch Berg, Peasant Re: The New JournoList? Mr. Black, You built your reputation as a reporter. And for that, I give you all due respect. I was a reporter, too. Not much of one; a couple of radio stations, some free-lance print work. Nothing big, and certainly nothing to build a…
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Open Letter To Politifact Groupies
To: Everyone in the media and alt media that lionizes “PolitiFact” From: Mitch Berg, person who actually cares about the truth Re: Suck It. All, Politifact’s “Lie Of The Year” was in fact true. Please go reassess the tragedy that is your life and career. That is all. (Via Bill C)