Politifact Fact Check: Ron Paul right about foreign aid distribution Arabs v Israel

[Kotin]

http://www.politifact.com/texas/stat...nations-get-t/

So where does that leave us?

On the face of it, stacking one nation’s foreign aid dollars against 40 others may not be a meaningful comparison. Regardless, based on the most recent decade of U.S. foreign aid data, Paul’s statement is correct: Collectively, the 40-plus Arab and Muslim countries drew far more than double what Israel got.

We rate the statement Mostly True.

[ItsTime]

Well it is a meaningful comparison. Paul is trying to point out that we fund Israels enemies many times over than we fund Israel.

[tsai3904]

Why didn't they rate his statement "True" instead of just "Mostly True"? Is it because they didn't know the specific countries RP was referring to?

[sailingaway]

so of course they call it 'mostly right' because they don't like his policies, not because his facts are wrong.

Politifact is all politics and little fact.

[ItsTime]

^rep+

[Bruno]

Not saying what is untrue and then calling it only mostly true is mostly biased.

[tsai3904]

so of course they call it 'mostly right' because they don't like his policies, not because his facts are wrong.

Politifact is all politics and little fact.

Yea, they say "Foreign aid fact straight, but is comparison meaningful?"

Fact is right yet they don't rate it "True" because they are judging the usefulness of the comparison. Makes no sense.

[Maximus]

That was the most convoluted article I have ever read

[FrankRep]

Already posted in Foreign Affairs.

Ron Paul: Arab, Muslim Nations Get Twice as Much Money as Israel
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthr...oney-as-Israel

[BlackTerrel]

Man people here are never pleased. I think this is a pretty positive piece.

U.S. Rep. Ron Paul says "the Arab and the Muslim nations" get twice as much foreign aid as Israel

Collectively then, the 2009 aid to these nations was more than seven times the aid to Israel

Ron Paul said twice as much, it is actually 7 times as much. So it is not exactly true. Nevertheless Paul's point is made and this article points it out.

[Humanae Libertas]

FactCheck.org also did a smear job on him.

[tsai3904]

Man people here are never pleased. I think this is a pretty positive piece.

This is their justification for rating his statement "Mostly True" instead of "True":

Foreign aid fact straight, but is comparison meaningful?

They are not rating it mostly true because Muslim countries get 7 times as much instead of twice as much. They rate it mostly true because they don't see the comparison as meaningful, which has nothing to do with whether RP's statement is factually correct or not.

[ds21089]

This is their justification for rating his statement "Mostly True" instead of "True":



They are not rating it mostly true because Muslim countries get 7 times as much instead of twice as much. They rate it mostly true because they don't see the comparison as meaningful, which has nothing to do with whether RP's statement is factually correct or not.

Exactly. So if anything it should've been "even more true than he knew!" because it emphasizes his point all the more.

[Epic]

Politifact is a leftist organization. It's gonna put out some serious suckage this campaign.

[BlackTerrel]

This is their justification for rating his statement "Mostly True" instead of "True":

They are not rating it mostly true because Muslim countries get 7 times as much instead of twice as much. They rate it mostly true because they don't see the comparison as meaningful, which has nothing to do with whether RP's statement is factually correct or not.

Ignore their reasoning for a moment: his statement isn't exactly true is it? It isn't.

If you're demanding perfection and everyone treat Ron Paul as the greatest thing since sliced bread you're never going to get it. That struck me as a pretty positive article.

[specsaregood]

Ignore their reasoning for a moment: his statement isn't exactly true is it? It isn't.

Actually it pretty much is. They include Afghanistan and Iraq in their summing of aid to muslim/arab countries. Those countries are defacto US territories now since we occupy them. They are also are the greatest sum of money. If you remove them from the list you get: 5.6billion which is really close to double Israel at 2.4billion. Also, we increased the amount of money going to Israel this year. So yeah, his statement is as reasonably close to exactly true without getting into decimals. 5.6/2.4 = 2.333 == rounds to whole number of 2.

[RSDavis]

So, how many of those countries could be reliably labelled "enemies of Israel?"