Update on PolitiFact's FALSE rating given to Rand's federal compensation numbers

[jct74]

They acknowledge they received strong negative feedback to their "FALSE" rating, but they don't respond in any way to the points brought up in the letters they received. There were also some media outlets that criticized the rating, but they don't mention that.

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2010/nov/24/mailbag-good-stuff-overcomes-annoyance/


Here is the original article in question:
http://politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2010/nov/11/rand-paul/rand-paul-says-federal-workers-paid-120000-private/
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[ronaldo23]

They acknowledge they received strong negative feedback to their "FALSE" rating, but they don't respond in any way to the points brought up in the letters they received. There were also some media outlets that criticized the rating, but they don't mention that.

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2010/nov/24/mailbag-good-stuff-overcomes-annoyance/


Here is the original article in question:
http://politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2010/nov/11/rand-paul/rand-paul-says-federal-workers-paid-120000-private/
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glad they included this, but the problem is that all the other disputed claims aren't nearly as unequivocally incorrect as the original one was.

All the other disputes in this article are ambiguous at best, while the original Rand "false" was one of the most politically charged claims that PolitFact has ever made in its history as a fact-checking website.

[sailingaway]

Yeah, I saw that, but they aren't saying it was true, and when Boehner jumped on the band wagon and said the same thing, they said that was false, too.