Swordsmyth
10-19-2018, 11:12 PM
PolitiFact, which is absolutely a non-partisan “fact-checking” organization (and don’t you dare suggest otherwise, you looney conspiracy theorist) was forced to retract a bogus ruling that sought protect Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) from a Republican attack ad.
“You know, that’s one thing the United States has that nobody else has, is the freedom to fly around and be affordable where a normal person can afford it,” a constituent told McCaskill at a 2017 town hall.
The constituent was referring to his own own private plane, which McCaskill confirmed (https://freebeacon.com/politics/mccaskill-clarifies-course-not-normal-private-plane/) to Free Beacon at the time.
“Will you remind them when they come after me about my husband’s plane that normal people can afford it?” McCaskill responded to her constituent.
But when the Senate Leadership Fund ran an ad (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcDYse2R-W0&feature=youtu.be) attacking McCaskill for being out of touch with her constituents for thinking that “normal people” can afford private planes, it struck a chord with the arbiters of truth over at PolitiFact.
“Did Claire McCaskill say normal people can afford a private plane? No,” the organization said definitively, attaching a link to its story.
https://bigleaguepolitics.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Screen-Shot-2018-10-19-at-9.26.57-AM.png
Shortly thereafter, they unpublished the story, claiming that they received “new evidence” that may not support their “False” rating of the original story.
https://bigleaguepolitics.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Screen-Shot-2018-10-19-at-9.26.28-AM-1.png
To be clear, that “new evidence” was readily available before they published the original story – they either chose to ignore it, or did not properly research the evidence before publishing their story. After all the hoopla, PolitiFact issued a new “fact-check.”
This time they labeled the ad “half-true,” claiming that it “exaggerated” McCaskill’s statements.
More at: https://bigleaguepolitics.com/politifact-tries-to-protect-dem-candidates-exposed-for-bogus-fact-checking/
“You know, that’s one thing the United States has that nobody else has, is the freedom to fly around and be affordable where a normal person can afford it,” a constituent told McCaskill at a 2017 town hall.
The constituent was referring to his own own private plane, which McCaskill confirmed (https://freebeacon.com/politics/mccaskill-clarifies-course-not-normal-private-plane/) to Free Beacon at the time.
“Will you remind them when they come after me about my husband’s plane that normal people can afford it?” McCaskill responded to her constituent.
But when the Senate Leadership Fund ran an ad (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcDYse2R-W0&feature=youtu.be) attacking McCaskill for being out of touch with her constituents for thinking that “normal people” can afford private planes, it struck a chord with the arbiters of truth over at PolitiFact.
“Did Claire McCaskill say normal people can afford a private plane? No,” the organization said definitively, attaching a link to its story.
https://bigleaguepolitics.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Screen-Shot-2018-10-19-at-9.26.57-AM.png
Shortly thereafter, they unpublished the story, claiming that they received “new evidence” that may not support their “False” rating of the original story.
https://bigleaguepolitics.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Screen-Shot-2018-10-19-at-9.26.28-AM-1.png
To be clear, that “new evidence” was readily available before they published the original story – they either chose to ignore it, or did not properly research the evidence before publishing their story. After all the hoopla, PolitiFact issued a new “fact-check.”
This time they labeled the ad “half-true,” claiming that it “exaggerated” McCaskill’s statements.
More at: https://bigleaguepolitics.com/politifact-tries-to-protect-dem-candidates-exposed-for-bogus-fact-checking/