Politifact strikes again!

[Proud Liberal Dem]

They've rated Marco Rubio's claim that Obama ran more negative ads during the 2008 Election "Mostly True".

http://www.politifact.com/florida/statements/2012/feb/06/marco-rubio/marco-rubio-no-candidate-has-run-more-negative-ads/

*ugh*

[Proud Liberal Dem]

2. I can't wrap my head around it either

My only conclusion is that they've got to do a certain number of negative Obama/Democrat pieces to "balance" what I'm sure is a potential tsunami of negative GOP pieces and, while I'm sure the neither side has their hands completely clean when it comes to telling the unvarnished and absolute truth, it feels like they have to s--t--r--e--t--c-h, contort, and twist a lot of things to arrive at a negative ruling for Obama/Democrats. The fact of the matter is that Democrats just don't say as much dumb/false stuff as Republicans IMHO (or at least they keep it to themselves and don't actually say it out loud where the media circus could pick up on it).

[One of the 99]

3. Another Epic Fail!

They really seem to be bending to the right these days.

[EC]

4. Politifact

already proven to be bought.

[grantcart]

5. the whole statement

Rubio said. "No candidate has run more negative ads in American history than Barack Obama did in 2008, especially in the general.’’ In sheer numbers, that statement is correct: Obama bought many more ads than McCain did, both positive and negative. Nevertheless, two studies suggest that, overall, Obama's ads were not significantly more negative than his rival. He ran the most negative ads because he ran the most ads. We rate Rubio's statement Mostly True.

[rocktivity]

8. But by their OWN admission, "more" can have more than one meaning in this case

Last edited Tue Aug 7, 2012, 10:28 PM - Edit history (11)

Did Obama put out a LARGER NUMBER of negative ads? Yes. Then in terms of the NUMBER of ads, Rubio's statement is 100% true.

But were Obama's ads more negative IN SUBSTANCE than everyone else's? Based on their research, they say no. Then in terms of the SUBSTANCE of the ads, Rubio's statement is 100% FALSE.

That leaves ONLY ONE possible rating for Rubio's statement -- based on their own criteria, it HAS to be "HALF true!"


rocktivity

[Drunken Irishman]

6. It's unfortunate a site like politifact has become so obviously flawed...

It was really a legit source to smack down lies and now they push 'em.

'Mostly true'? Bullshit. It's not mostly true. It's a deceptive comment.

[Obama3_16]

7. is there a way to make them as reviled of a source as FoxNews?

that is our only hope. I don't think politifact is going anywhere....so time to utterly discredit them so no one pays attention to them the way they do Snopes.com