Posted on 05/29/2013 6:01:51 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Study: PolitiFact says Republicans lie more
By DYLAN BYERS | 5/29/13 8:11 AM EDT
The fact-checking organization PolitiFact has found Republicans to be less trustworthy than Democrats, according to a new study.
Fifty-two percent of Republican claims reviewed by the Tampa Bay Times fact-checking operation were rated "mostly false," “false” or “pants on fire,” versus just 24 percent of Democratic statements, according to George Mason University's Center for Media and Public Affairs. By the same token, 54 percent of Democratic statements were rated as "mostly true" or "true," compared to just 18 percent of Republican statements.
The CMPA looked at 100 statements -- 46 by Democrats, 54 by Republicans -- that were fact-checked by PolitiFact between January 20 and May 22.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
After Kenyan Obama, two election frauds, IRS lies,
benghazi lies, Fast&Furious lies, lies, lies,
the story is obviously FABRICATED.
Look who posted it. Politico.
Odungo is in the s***z so lets have a "new study"
...only to conservatives.
PolitiFact, eh? More like PolitiFabrication.
That's an oxymoron.
Uber-partisans did a study did they?
Go figure...
I didn’t know Muslims worked for Politico.
Maybe they have a point.
Study: Politifact lies more
“We will stand up to 0bama”, another lie.
Its an illusion because Conservatives judge truth relative to actual facts, not just crap they made up and believe.
The thing is, if you lie and then insist it’s the truth, it’s “controversial”. If you say something that can be proven incorrect, it’s a lie. So you can lie all day long about Benghazi, the IRS, AP, and F&F scandals and it’s not a lie as long as you don’t admit it to be.
The biggest controversy Politifact got in was when they fessed up that Republicans weren’t ending Medicaid and they were excoriated for it. They also ranked Romney as lying even though Jeep eventually started building Jeeps in China.
Just former Washington Post editors.
This proves that the Tampa Bay Times lies about Republicans, just as all Leftist news outlets do. The Austin (Un) American Statesman never finds Democrats’ statements to be False. That assessment is strictly reserved for Republicans.
You would think that George Mason students would be smarter than this article indicates.
This is the moron whose Mitt Romney 2012 “Lie of the Year” has since become an Obama scandal.
Examples of PolitiFact ratings:
Pants on Fire: Michele Bachmann decries “huge national database” run by IRS with "personal, intimate" details. (May 15, 2013)
Remember, this is their best example, the only one they mention at the link. Who are you going to believe, "PolitiFact" or your own eyes?:
"IRS Looking at Facebook, Twitter Pages"
http://foxnewsinsider.com/2013/04/09/irs-looking-at-facebook-twitter-pages-judge-napolitano-says-of-course-they-will-because-the-info-is-public
Whoops. Not exactly. I conflated two stories. Anyway the Lie of the Year committee has lied.
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