{"id":28509,"date":"2012-06-20T12:00:55","date_gmt":"2012-06-20T17:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=28509"},"modified":"2012-09-02T09:01:53","modified_gmt":"2012-09-02T14:01:53","slug":"all-the-narrative-thats-fit-to-buff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=28509","title":{"rendered":"All The Narrative That’s Fit To Buff"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jim Treacher notes what many conservative observers have long known; that thing the leftymedia and lefty “alt” media refer to as “fact-checking” is really no more than Democrat narrative-buffing.<\/p>\n

“Politifact”, it seems, is less interested in “facts” than in “upholding the Democrat side of the story<\/a>“.<\/p>\n

Matthew Hoy writes:<\/p>\n

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In 2009, Judicial Watch made a big splash when they revealed that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had been using military aircraft to travel to and from her home district in California to the tune of millions of taxpayer dollars.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The spendthrift nature of the Democrat-controlled Congress was a key election issue in 2010 and Speaker Pelosi\u2019s extravagance was Exhibit A. In response, Rep. John Boehner promised that if the GOP took control of the House and he was elected speaker, he would fly commercial to and from his district. After Republicans won, he reiterated his pledge.<\/p>\n

Which brings us to March 23, 2012 and this update at self-appointed watchdog Politifact. Reporter Molly Moorhead referenced documents from the House and the Congressional Research Service and came up with absolutely no evidence that Boehner has been asking for or receiving military transport to and\/or from his district.<\/p>\n

Going by the old theory that the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, Moorhead and her bosses at Politifact, decided that this merited an \u201cIn The Works\u201d label\u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cIn The Works.\u201d You\u2019d think it would be either \u201cTrue\u201d or \u201cFalse,\u201d but that\u2019s just because you don\u2019t know any better.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Treacher’s conclusion:<\/p>\n

I like PolitiFact\u2019s style: \u201cWe can\u2019t prove you\u2019re lying, Speaker Boehner. In fact, there\u2019s absolutely no proof of our suspicion whatsoever. Nice try!\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Moral of the story: \u00a0Any time a Media or Democrat (ptr) figure calls themselves a “fact checker”, assume they’re a narrative-buffer until proven otherwise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jim Treacher notes what many conservative observers have long known; that thing the leftymedia and lefty “alt” media refer to as “fact-checking” is really no more than Democrat narrative-buffing. “Politifact”, it seems, is less interested in “facts” than in “upholding the Democrat side of the story“. Matthew Hoy writes:   In 2009, Judicial Watch made […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,230],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lefty-alt-media","category-media","category-the-fact-check-scam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28509"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30102,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28509\/revisions\/30102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}