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Ino

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10. Let's check this out...
Sun Apr 24, 2016, 02:13 AM
Apr 2016

The dailynewsbin article states Politifact has rated Hillary's "contentious claims... most highly contested claims."

If you go to the Politifact site, you will see that they rated 192 Hillary statements, dating all the way back to the 2008 campaign, vs only 93 Sanders statements.

Hillary's statements are padded out with LOTS of non-contentious statements of fact that no one disagrees with, such as "Tax rates were significantly higher 'in the '40s, the '50s, and the '60s'" and "African-American children are 500 percent more likely to die from asthma than white kids."

Here's my favorite -- they are also padded out with many silly, not highly-contested claims like "Could I just point out that ... I seem to get the first question all the time?"

In other words, Politifact can get the result it wants by its choice and number of statements to analyze. And dailynewsbin mischaracterizes the statements analyzed as being contentious/highly-contested, when they are in many cases NOT.

I rate this dailynewsbin article as FALSE.

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