Krugman: When Facts Aren’t Facts (Politifact is at it again - updated)

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Last edited Wed Jan 25, 2012, 12:59 PM - Edit history (1)

When Facts Aren’t Facts

The criterion, according to Politifact, seems to be that a fact isn’t a fact if it helps a Democratic narrative.

Jared Bernstein watches the train wreck. Obama said:

In the last 22 months, businesses have created more than three million jobs. Last year, they created the most jobs since 2005.

which is just true. Period.

But Politifact rated it as only “half true” because he was “essentially taking credit for job growth”. He didn’t actually take credit — and even if he had, a fact is still a fact.

I do not think that word means what Politifact thinks it means.

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/25/when-facts-arent-facts/

Updated to add that the hacks at Politifact changed their rating to "mostly true," with the following disclaimer:

EDITOR’S NOTE: Our original Half True rating was based on an interpretation that Obama was crediting his policies for the jobs increase. But we've concluded that he was not making that linkage as strongly as we initially believed and have decided to change the ruling to Mostly True. The original article is archived here.

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2012/jan/25/barack-obama/have-private-sector-jobs-grown-22-months-best-annu/

[ProSense]

1. Kick! n/t

[annabanana]

2. so they edited from "Horseshit"

"mostly horseshit"

idiots

[bigtree]

3. kick

[uponit7771]

4. RIGHT!!! They were doing this on NPR this morning, they weren't address the statement they were...

...addressing peripherals that were somewhat made up