{"id":40860,"date":"2013-12-31T12:30:21","date_gmt":"2013-12-31T18:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=40860"},"modified":"2013-12-31T10:17:36","modified_gmt":"2013-12-31T16:17:36","slug":"eurasia-has-never-been-at-war-yadda-yadda-bla-bla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=40860","title":{"rendered":"Eurasia Has Never Been At War Yadda Yadda Bla Bla"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you read this blog, you know that “Politifact”, the WaPo’s “Fact-Check” column, accepted as the sine qua non\u00a0<\/em>of political fact-checking by many in the industry (and more of the less-informed outside it).<\/p>\n

Those people might not know that “Politifact” has been carrying President Obama’s water on the key claims about the Democrat’s flagship Obamcare legislation since the\u00a0 beginning.\u00a0 What they might not know is that : “Politifact” and its editor, Angie Drobnic Holan, have not only completely flip-flopped on the story, but are burying the fact that what they called the “Lie of the Year” in 2013, they called “True” with a side order of “you are an ignorant redneck for even asking” in 2008:<\/a><\/p>\n

The highlight of Holan\u2019s 2013 \u201cLie of the Year\u201d article was that it completely ignored Holan\u2019s own \u201cTrue\u201d rating of the \u201ckeep your plan\u201d claim back in 2008. A sidebar to the article listed as \u201crelated rulings\u201d Holan\u2019s 2013 articles about Jarrett and Obama, and Jacobson\u2019s 2012 article rating the claim as \u201cHalf True.\u201d The text of the article cites also the 2009 \u201cHalf True\u201d report. But nowhere does the \u201cLie of the Year\u201d piece even acknowledge that its author once gave Obama\u2019s promise its 100 percent \u201cTrue\u201d seal of approval.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now, if you’re\u00a0a conservative, you know <\/em>“Politifact” is a Democrat propaganda machine.<\/p>\n

The only real question is; do the media – especially those that call themselves “no rant, no slant” objective journalists<\/a> – know?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you read this blog, you know that “Politifact”, the WaPo’s “Fact-Check” column, accepted as the sine qua non\u00a0of 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,230],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-the-fact-check-scam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40860","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=40860"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40880,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40860\/revisions\/40880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}