Sharyl Attkisson Exposes So-Called 'Fact Checkers' for Who They Really Are

Townhall ^ | August 4, 2020 | Katie Pavlich

[yoe]

If you spend any time engaged in the media space or consuming news, you've no doubt seen the phenomenon of "fact-checking."

On Twitter, so-called fact-checkers are censoring President Trump's tweets but allowing (calls for genocide) by other world leaders to stand. On Facebook, fact-checkers regularly flag news articles published by conservative outlets for "misinformation."

Fact-checkers are portrayed as non-biased arbiters of truth and respected because they work for "legitimate" and "credible mainstream" news outlets, but a deep dive by investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson shows what we long suspected about their bias.

From (RealClearPolitics:)

[yoe]

An Interesting read.....

[Paladin2]

https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2020/08/04/investigative_issues_the_troubling_fact_that_media_fact-checkers_lean_left_124663.html?mc_cid=a1cbc35bd6&mc_eid=8547ebfb81

[kiryandil]

Attkison delivers, as usual.

I instantly switch off my information receptors when I see the phrase "fact check". I've been doing this since 2015.

Interestingly, I never saw the phrase during the whole reign of the Jug-Eared, Purple-Lipped Halfrican Lying Machine, Æthelblack the Unready.

[Steely Tom]

Ironic since the Liberals were the ones telling us “there is no such thing as truth” and “facts are societal constructs” back in the ‘60s and ‘70s. Now it’s “facts are what we say they are.”

[kiryandil]

One on the worst of them is that four-eyed, sniveling little XiNN POS, Daniel Dale.

[kiryandil]

One of the worst of them is that four-eyed, sniveling little XiNN POS, Daniel Dale.

[jimtorr]

Don’t forget the currently Biden’s entry, “we choose truth over facts.”

[Gay State Conservative]

Anyone with an IQ over 70 knows that the “fact checkers” quoted by See BS,the Amazon Compost,etc,etc,etc don’t have the slightest interest in facts.

[sauropod]

bump for later read

[jimtorr]

Errr, I sound just as out of it as Biden!....but then, it’s my privilege as a veteran freeper to be incoherent.

[Fido969]

“Lean left”? They are far-left.

[tsowellfan]

Any right leaning fact checker websites out there? If not, at the very least something more in the center?

[gattaca]

bmp

[KarlInOhio]

Fact Checker? More like fact Cheka.

"In the basements of the Cheka" by Ivan Vladimirov (1919)

If you disobey the Party you will be eliminated.

[marktwain]

Ironic since the Liberals were the ones telling us “there is no such thing as truth” and “facts are societal constructs” back in the ‘60s and ‘70s. Now it’s “facts are what we say they are.”

Those concepts are essentially the same.

It all amounts to leftists saying "we will tell you what to think and believe".

"Anyone who thinks different than us is lying."

[urtax$@work]

That Sharyl Attkisson is a gem!

[polymuser]

“Now it’s “facts are what we say they are.””

Joe Biden: “We choose truth over facts.”

https://youtu.be/DFPH4NCHZZo

[polymuser]

Doublethink: The act of simultaneously accepting two mutually contradictory beliefs as correct. Even to understand the word—doublethink—involved the use of doublethink. Four examples of doublethink used throughout 1984 include the slogans: War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength, and 2 + 2 = 5.

"“He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself." -1984