Do you think PolitiFact's name is an oxymoron?

[nawpar]

Do you think PolitiFact is trying to mislead people, into thinking it's political opinion, and fact at the same time? I think it's an important question, because they can be sued for what they call fact, but not for political opinion.

 

[Muhammed]

Just the fact that they use a scale of truthfulness proves that are bogus. A statement of fact is either true or false. There is no in between.

 

[aaronleland]

Have they been sued, and lost in the many years they've been around?

 

[Godboy]

Have they been sued, and lost in the many years they've been around?

Can you be sued for being wrong?

 

[Polishprince]

Have they been sued, and lost in the many years they've been around?

Can't be sued for being full of shit, at least not here in America.

 

[aaronleland]

Can you be sued for being wrong?

Yes, you can be. Ever wonder why news channel prefice everything with "allegedledy"?

 

[Godboy]

Yes, you can be. Ever wonder why news channel prefice everything with "allegedledy"?

"Allegedly" is a word used to avoid "defamation". Im not sure if that applies here.

 

[Dragonlady]

Just the fact that they use a scale of truthfulness proves that are bogus. A statement of fact is either true or false. There is no in between.

As usual, you could not be more wrong. You can use a true statement to support a lie. Like: Democrats don't want to build the Wall. They favour open borders. While it's true that Democrats didn't want to build the Wall, it's not true that they favour open borders. So that statement is only partly true.

Republicans are really good at taking a fact, and twisting it into something that really wasn't said. Just like Azog did with my post on Jews invented whining. I posted that I was grateful that I escaped progroms, Holocaust, and discrimination against Jews I saw all around me growing up post WWII by being born a Christian, and Azog cut all that out and turned my post into a slur against Jews.

That kind of shit.

 

[Ridgerunner]

Politifact's fact-check of Va Lt. Gov. appears to have missed something (Update)

hotair.com

Imagine that...

 

[BackAgain]

Do you think PolitiFact's name is an oxymoron?​

No. I think it’s a flat out deliberate lie.