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What percentage of political donations from self-identified fact checkers go to Democrats? Hint: it rounds off to 100
American Thinker ^ | 06/13/2023 | Thomas Lifson

Posted on 06/13/2023 6:15:00 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Most conservatives understand that so-called journalists who call themelves “fact-checkers” function as enforcement arms for the current Narrative being pushed by the Democrat-media complex. But there are plenty of other people, who read only what the progressive media bubble allows, that still believe the job title has some legitimacy. For them, this nifty bit of research performed by Robert Schmad in today’s Free Beacon will be enlightening. Cutting to the chase for the answer to the headline above:

The Free Beacon reviewed political donations over the past four election cycles from those who identified their occupation as "fact checker." $22,580 of the $22,683 in political donations that came from self-identified fact checkers during that time—a whopping 99.5 percent—went to Democrats and liberal groups. Only three of the fact checker donations made during that period went to Republicans. Top recipients include socialist Vermont senator Bernie Sanders, who during the seven-year period received ten times more fact checker money than every Republican combined.

That rounds off to 100%, of course, but those 3 exceptional souls do deserve some notice, so the Freeb’s headline is best:

“Fact Check: Nearly 100 Percent of Political Contributions From Fact Checkers Go to Democrats”

Just leaving it at that and not reading the whole article would deprive you of some delicious nuggets, such as:

The [New York] Times fact checker, Cecilia Nowell, contributed three times to Warren's failed presidential bid from 2019 to 2020 and still accepts "fact-checking assignments" from the outlet on a freelance basis, according to her LinkedIn. Reuters, meanwhile, from 2020 to 2021 employed Carrie Monahan, daughter of veteran journalist Katie Couric, as a "fact check producer." Monahan during that time contributed to Biden, Harrison, and Georgia Democratic senator Jon Ossoff.


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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: democrats; donations; factcheckers; followthemoney

1 posted on 06/13/2023 6:15:00 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
And:

In a 2020 fact check, for instance, the Times accused Arkansas senator Tom Cotton of flirting with conspiracy theories when the Republican suggested that COVID-19 may have originated in a Chinese research lab. Federal investigations have since corroborated the lab leak theory Cotton promoted.

Fact checkers working for Facebook, meanwhile, last year erroneously designated as misinformation a Free Beacon report on Biden's Department of Health and Human Services, which was set to fund the distribution of safe smoking kits with crack pipes. Facebook's fact checker, Lead Stories, kept the piece in place even after the Free Beacon proved that federally-funded harm reduction organizations distributed crack pipes.

Fact checkers have even gone as far as to tell readers how they can (and can't) respond to factual information. When the Free Beacon in July reported that the Biden administration sold one million Strategic Petroleum Reserve barrels to a Chinese state-controlled gas giant, the Washington Post acknowledged in a subsequent fact check that the sale happened. Still, the Post's Glenn Kessler wrote, there's "no reason for outrage" and "anyone who suggests the Biden administration is doing something wrong here … earns Three Pinocchios."


2 posted on 06/13/2023 6:16:00 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

I tried to explain this 15 years ago (elsewhere) to some regarding Snopes. During the run-up to Obama.

Basically to no avail.


3 posted on 06/13/2023 6:18:33 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: SaveFerris

It’s been a frustrating battle. How do you debate someone who refuses to the obvious ?


4 posted on 06/13/2023 6:35:42 AM PDT by SomeCallMeTim ( The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them!)
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To: SeekAndFind

And a lot of these limited information voters are independents and republicans.
Many of my pub acquaintances still know nothing of the Burisma scandal.


5 posted on 06/13/2023 6:37:10 AM PDT by ArtDodger
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To: SomeCallMeTim

Dunno. They banned me for not be respectful enough to the Usurper. Fine by me. They can have him and all that goes with him.

In many ways, it was for the better. Let me know where they really were. I was surprised a bit but shouldn’t have been.

Especially after one of them exclaimed: “I think he’s a Christian!”.

The blindness was truly astonishing.


6 posted on 06/13/2023 6:39:44 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: SeekAndFind
From the linked Washington Free Beacon article:

One of the few fact checkers who contributed to Republicans seemingly felt the need to obscure her identity—the Google employee listed her address as "123 No Name Drive." Conservative tech employees have long said they feel the need to self-censor their views

More evidence of the "tolerance" of the leftists - if you don't agree with them, you live in fear of being fired, ostracized, or even assaulted by them.

7 posted on 06/13/2023 6:45:42 AM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell>)
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To: SaveFerris

Snopes: An ultraliberal couple and their cat. The cat is the smartest one of the three.


8 posted on 06/13/2023 6:54:10 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: Vigilanteman

Yep, but he got rid of the fat wife and traded her for another gal long ago.


9 posted on 06/13/2023 6:56:17 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: SeekAndFind
The contemporary meaning of "Fact Checker" is one whose role to establish the dogma of the ruling social/economic/political class at that moment as the tautological truth, without any regard for counter evidence or contradictions with previous positions.

These "Fact Checkers" are real life manifestations of Orwell's MINITRUE.

10 posted on 06/13/2023 6:59:39 AM PDT by SecondAmendment (This just proves my latest theory ... LEFTISTS RUIN EVERYTHING !!!)
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To: SaveFerris

Not as fat, just as loony left?


11 posted on 06/13/2023 7:14:01 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: Vigilanteman

From 2017

https://nypost.com/2017/07/25/bitter-divorce-fuels-snopes-slow-demise/


12 posted on 06/13/2023 7:18:20 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Vigilanteman

This was the wife that followed IIRC

https://www.instagram.com/p/CSiciq8A8Mx/


13 posted on 06/13/2023 7:22:30 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: SaveFerris

Love it! The lefty husband fund raised from other leftists to keep it afloat, then looted the company. Do you suppose this is where Black Lives Matter came up with the idea?


14 posted on 06/13/2023 7:24:07 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: Vigilanteman

Dunno - IIRC there was once an article where wife #2 could be rented for like $5,000 a day or something. (prior to then)

Been a long time since I saw it. It was here on FR at that time.


15 posted on 06/13/2023 7:27:39 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: SeekAndFind

Purer than Ivory Soap.


16 posted on 06/13/2023 7:33:54 AM PDT by rwa265
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To: SeekAndFind

Bernard Goldberg pointed out the liberal media bias in 2001 in his book aptly titled “Bias”. It was a seminal read for me, like someone finally turned the lights on in a dark room.
Of course, Back then in the good old days the ratio was only 93% liberal.
https://www.amazon.com/Bias-Insider-Exposes-Media-Distort/dp/0895261901


17 posted on 06/13/2023 9:33:08 AM PDT by Skid289 (In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not. )
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