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Journalism: If media "fact checkers" are just impartial guardians of the truth, how come they got their own facts wrong about Paul Ryan's speech, and did so in a way that helped President Obama's re-election effort?
Case in point was the rush of "fact check" stories claiming Ryan misled when he talked about a shuttered auto plant in his home state.
Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler posted a piece "Ryan misleads on GM plant closing in hometown" saying Ryan "appeared to suggest" that Obama was responsible for the closure of a GM plant in Janesville, Wis.
"That's not true," Kessler said. "The plant was closed in December 2008, before Obama was sworn in."
What's not true are Kessler's "facts." Ryan didn't suggest Obama was responsible for shuttering the plant. Instead, he correctly noted that Obama promised during the campaign that the troubled plant "will be here for another hundred years" if his policies were enacted.
Also, the plant didn't close in December 2008. It was still producing cars until April 2009...
...when CNN looked more carefully at the evidence, it to its credit concluded that what Ryan said was "true."
Media fact-checkers also complained about Ryan's charge that Obama is cutting $716 billion from Medicare to fund ObamaCare. Not true, they said. Medicare's growth is just being slowed.
But Obama achieves that slower growth by making real cuts in provider payments. And in any case, the media always and everywhere call a reduction in the rate of federal spending growth a "cut." So why suddenly charge Ryan with being misleading for using that same term...?
The rest of Ryan's alleged factual errors aren't errors at all; it's just that the media didn't like how he said it. But since when is it a fact-checker's job to decide how a politician should construct his arguments...?
The problem is that the mainstream press is now abusing the "fact check" label, using it to more aggressively push a liberal agenda without feeling the need to provide any balance whatsoever. And, as the reaction to the Ryan speech shows, they are now blatantly using it to provide air support for Obama.
Is it any wonder that soon after Ryan's speech ended, the Obama campaign rushed out an ad using the media's "fact check" stories as its source?
Your gonna be one busy fact checker with richie rich & boy blunder lying across
America .
The "reality" is..that Ryan suggested that Obama's policies failed to help the plant..and that his Medicare "cuts" are impacting people who use it.
Both "facts" are lies.
The "reality" is..that Ryan suggested that Obama's policies failed to help the plant..and that his Medicare "cuts" are impacting people who use it.
Both "facts" are lies.
Your gonna be one busy fact checker with richie rich & boy blunder lying across
America .
And Obama sets the gold standard for truth.
Is it true what they say? Is ignorance bliss?
The "reality" is..that Ryan suggested that Obama's policies failed to help the plant..and that his Medicare "cuts" are impacting people who use it.
Both "facts" are lies.
Republicans run their election campaign based on a quote from their old friend Hitler:
It is not truth that matters, but victory.
-Adolf Hitler
Your gonna be one busy fact checker with richie rich & boy blunder lying across
America .
And Obama sets the gold standard for truth.
Is it true what they say? Is ignorance bliss?
No Obama is checked also . You guys & gals really need to stop listening to rush
& hanninty . The main stream media is not out to get you
The "reality" is..that Ryan suggested that Obama's policies failed to help the plant..and that his Medicare "cuts" are impacting people who use it.
Both "facts" are lies.
Republicans run their election campaign based on a quote from their old friend Hitler:
It is not truth that matters, but victory.
-Adolf Hitler
THERE IT IS!
Stupidity at it's finest!
And Obama sets the gold standard for truth.
Is it true what they say? Is ignorance bliss?
No Obama is checked also . You guys & gals really need to stop listening to rush
& hanninty . The main stream media is not out to get you
Yeah, Obama is checked, by the same people who want him elected... Whatever helps you sleep at night...
Oh, and I don't listen to Rush or Hannity. Can't stand either one...
Apparently, no one...
Media 'Fact Checkers' Always Seem To Favor Obama - Investors.com
Journalism: If media "fact checkers" are just impartial guardians of the truth, how come they got their own facts wrong about Paul Ryan's speech, and did so in a way that helped President Obama's re-election effort?
Case in point was the rush of "fact check" stories claiming Ryan misled when he talked about a shuttered auto plant in his home state.
Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler posted a piece "Ryan misleads on GM plant closing in hometown" saying Ryan "appeared to suggest" that Obama was responsible for the closure of a GM plant in Janesville, Wis.
"That's not true," Kessler said. "The plant was closed in December 2008, before Obama was sworn in."
What's not true are Kessler's "facts." Ryan didn't suggest Obama was responsible for shuttering the plant. Instead, he correctly noted that Obama promised during the campaign that the troubled plant "will be here for another hundred years" if his policies were enacted.
Also, the plant didn't close in December 2008. It was still producing cars until April 2009...
...when CNN looked more carefully at the evidence, it to its credit concluded that what Ryan said was "true."
Media fact-checkers also complained about Ryan's charge that Obama is cutting $716 billion from Medicare to fund ObamaCare. Not true, they said. Medicare's growth is just being slowed.
But Obama achieves that slower growth by making real cuts in provider payments. And in any case, the media always and everywhere call a reduction in the rate of federal spending growth a "cut." So why suddenly charge Ryan with being misleading for using that same term...?
The rest of Ryan's alleged factual errors aren't errors at all; it's just that the media didn't like how he said it. But since when is it a fact-checker's job to decide how a politician should construct his arguments...?
The problem is that the mainstream press is now abusing the "fact check" label, using it to more aggressively push a liberal agenda without feeling the need to provide any balance whatsoever. And, as the reaction to the Ryan speech shows, they are now blatantly using it to provide air support for Obama.
Is it any wonder that soon after Ryan's speech ended, the Obama campaign rushed out an ad using the media's "fact check" stories as its source?
It would seem that "facts" are open to interpretation...
The Liberal Media's fact-checkers are just the same liberal liars with the same pretense of objectivity.
There are "fact checkers" and there are politically motivated "nit-pickers". The ironic thing is that the left loves the tax exempt Media Matters left wing propaganda source that hires little squads of "fact checkers" that monitor only conservative speech.
