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NY Times: Trump's Lies vs. Obama's (the Wee Wee only told 18 whoppers in 8 years alert)
NY Times ^ | December 14, 2017 | David Leonhardt, Ian Prasad Philbrick and Stuart A. Thompson

Posted on 12/14/2017 2:23:14 PM PST by Zakeet

After we published a list of President Trump’s lies this summer, we heard a common response from his supporters. They said, in effect: Yes, but if you made a similar list for previous presidents, it would be just as bad.

We’ve set out to make that list. Here, you will find our attempt at a comprehensive catalog of the falsehoods that Barack Obama told while he was president. (We also discuss George W. Bush below, although the lack of real-time fact-checking during his presidency made a comprehensive list impossible.)

We applied the same conservative standard to Obama and Trump, counting only demonstrably and substantially false statements. The result: Trump is unlike any other modern president. He seems virtually indifferent to reality, often saying whatever helps him make the case he’s trying to make.

In his first 10 months in office, he has told 103 separate untruths, many of them repeatedly. Obama told 18 over his entire eight-year tenure. That’s an average of about two a year for Obama and about 124 a year for Trump.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: lies; mediabias; obama; presidentfelicia; thebrownclown; trump

and the Royal Idiot never told a really big whopper ... and you dumb old Freepers can believe that because that's what it says in the Times ... !!

1 posted on 12/14/2017 2:23:14 PM PST by Zakeet
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To: Zakeet

If you like your president, you can keep your president.


2 posted on 12/14/2017 2:27:07 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (Headline: Muslims Fear Backlash from Tomorrow's Terror Attack - Mark Steyn)
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To: Zakeet
Wee Wee McFuzznutz would NOT recognize the TRUTH if it is in any way avoidable... Via, et Veritas, et Vita!
3 posted on 12/14/2017 2:30:59 PM PST by heterosupremacist (Domine Iesu Christe, Filius Dei, miserere me peccatorem!)
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To: Zakeet

The guy’s entire life is a lie. What’s his real name - Barack Barry Hussein Sotero Obama? What grades did he get in school? What’s in his records from this government work in Illinois? etc.


4 posted on 12/14/2017 2:31:41 PM PST by Stosh
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To: Zakeet

Are liberals loathsome creatures?


5 posted on 12/14/2017 2:33:19 PM PST by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism us truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: Zakeet

That rattlesnake never spoke the truth and the truth was not in him. He was the father of lies, the master of flies, the horned one, the one with the scarred head, the yellow one, the one that smelled bad in the morning, the evil, the corrupt, the devil his own seff.


6 posted on 12/14/2017 2:36:37 PM PST by ichabod1 (Smoke does not mean fire when someone threw a smoke grenade.)
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I’d still like to see Hussein’s college admissions and academic records. And that LA Times video of Hussein’s comments at an islamic gathering.


7 posted on 12/14/2017 2:39:55 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Jeff Chandler
If you like your president, you can keep your president.

Irony fail...

8 posted on 12/14/2017 2:42:43 PM PST by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: Zakeet
Now we have twitter. People respond to things before it's been clarified just exactly what happened. They tweet about what they think was happening at the time. That accounts for some of these accusations. Differences of opinion account for others.

Also, most politicians do their lying during the election campaigns, so the comparison of Trump's tweets (many) with Obama's remarks while in office doesn't give the most accurate picture of Obama's credibility or lack of.

Howie Carr is on now asking people for examples of more Obama lies.

9 posted on 12/14/2017 2:44:10 PM PST by x
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Related...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3613637/posts


10 posted on 12/14/2017 2:48:04 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (MAGA!)
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Who is the bigger liar? Obama or the NY Slimes? Hard to tell. They were made for each other.


11 posted on 12/14/2017 2:52:44 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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The NYT appears to love to flaunt their bias by printing FAKE NEWS stories instead of factual news.

Hopefully the dinosaur known as the NYT will soon be dead.


12 posted on 12/14/2017 2:58:52 PM PST by Robert357 ( Dan Rather was discharged as "medically unfit" on May 11, 1954.)
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To: Zakeet

That half-breed, homosexual, muslim jihadi wanna be is a lie in and of himself.


13 posted on 12/14/2017 3:32:24 PM PST by MissEdie (I am South Carolina Strong.)
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To: Zakeet

The entire Kenyanesian Usurpation was a lie.


14 posted on 12/14/2017 4:12:30 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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But Barry’s lies are much more heavily weighted.


15 posted on 12/14/2017 4:20:27 PM PST by KosmicKitty (Waiting for inspiration)
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To: Zakeet

What?! No COMMENTS??

The right-leaning crowd would have made mince-meat out of the douche if they had.


16 posted on 12/14/2017 5:10:50 PM PST by i_robot73 ("A man chooses. A slave obeys." - Andrew Ryan)
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His hero, Saul Alinsky, and his bible, “Rules for Radicals” are based on lies.

Brings to mind the old saying “Are you gonna believe The New York Times, or your own lying eyes?”


17 posted on 12/15/2017 4:55:43 AM PST by rlmorel (Liberals: American Liberty is the egg that requires breaking to make their Utopian omelette.)
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To: Zakeet

Cleaning out my Explorer File Manager, I ran across an old Word doc, “252 Obama Lies”, from back in 2013. So is it 8 or 252?


18 posted on 12/19/2017 4:57:01 PM PST by MayflowerMadam
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