PolitiFact Weirdly Unable To Discuss Facts

Slate:

After this week, plenty of pundits are well and done with the national version of PolitiFact. The local versions? They're great. I was actually pretty fond of how one of them debunked an ad that misued one of my quotes, attributing it to a candidate, in 2010. Alas, PolitiFact Editor Bill Adair has committed the main site to a factually dubious "Lie of the Year" claim. PolitiFact claims that it's a "lie" to say that the Path to Prosperity ends Medicare. ActualFacts tell us that this is not a lie.

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Comments

[safara]

06:08 PM on 12/26/2011

Politifact with its overiding desire to achieve popular acceptance by trying to convince us of its "non-partisan" leanings has earned it a no confidence vote. Politifact no longer serves a useful pupose.

[Jeff Bunting]

02:04 PM on 12/23/2011

I guess politifact has now reduced itself to call anyone that 'dares' to question their 'facts' as silly and childish. Big surprise.

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2011/dec/22/fact-checking-echo-chamber-nation/

[stageplay]

12:09 PM on 12/23/2011

This completely destroys Politifact's credibility. Period.

[sharpstick]

11:50 AM on 12/23/2011

Just goes to show you that the greedy right wing agenda always rears it's ugly head...

... if you are paying attention of course ;)

[2tellthetruuth]

10:58 AM on 12/23/2011

Of course they are impartial even Michele said that they supported her claims...

[Sergeantfreedom]

10:44 AM on 12/23/2011

Vouchers to go privatized... isn't ending Medicare as we know it? Are you kidding me?

So much for PolitiFact's credibility.

[MasterfullyInept]

10:36 AM on 12/23/2011

EPIC FAIL

[OneLiberalLady]

10:21 AM on 12/23/2011

Adair concedes that the Ryan plan would privatize Medicare, yet doesn't see this as a scheme to "end Medicare as we know it:"
"At times, Democrats and liberal groups were careful to characterize the Republican plan more accurately. Another claim in the ad from the Agenda Project said the plan would "privatize" Medicare, which received a Mostly True rating from PolitiFact. President Barack Obama was also more precise with his words, saying the Medicare proposal "would voucherize the program and you potentially have senior citizens paying $6,000 more." "
AMAZING!

[OneLiberalLady]

10:13 AM on 12/23/2011

PolitiFact never did explain how replacing a single payer play with a voucher plan is maintaining Medicare "as we know it."

[somearelost]

10:16 AM on 12/23/2011

sad

[OneLiberalLady]

10:12 AM on 12/23/2011

You can strip the guts from a Ferrari, insert the engine of a Volkswagen Beetle, and still call it a Ferrari - if you're PolitiFact.

[somearelost]

10:16 AM on 12/23/2011

sad

[hk usp 45]

10:31 AM on 12/23/2011

Actually, a Ferrari with a VW engine would still be a Ferrari.

[DaydreamNation]

10:09 AM on 12/23/2011

I guess we have our official online equivalent to Fox News now.

[hk usp 45]

10:05 AM on 12/23/2011

We may not be able to trust Politifact, anymore, but we still have the NY times, Dan Rather, Maddow, and Pravda.

[Michael Doane]

09:53 AM on 12/23/2011

The biggest lie of the year is that we mustn't tax the rich because they are the job creators. (Blame this one on Frank Luntz, the Goebbels of our time).

[RU Mad II]

09:53 AM on 12/23/2011

Are you guys still here trying to explain away the 'Biggest Lie of the Year'?

Sad little bunch.

[oheart]

09:57 AM on 12/23/2011

You're on the wrong forum; you want Faux News.

[RU Mad II]

10:03 AM on 12/23/2011

No actually I am here to poke even more fun at the narrow minded. This story is over a week old and yet here you guys are still trying to discredit politifact by splitting hairs on the semantics.

Keep it up though, the rest of the world is entertained by your feeble attempts.

[Sergeantfreedom]

10:45 AM on 12/23/2011

A Freeper?

[monk6272]

09:49 AM on 12/23/2011

Typical Huff Post BS! Your "react" options listed above don't include, as they should: "Where in the h--l did you study journalism!?!?" PLEASE, AOL! Free us from this Huff Post torture!!!!!

[OneLiberalLady]

10:15 AM on 12/23/2011

We're sure there is a point in there somewhere.
Didn't AOL go bankrupt?