PolitiFact Slams Rick Scott as 'False' for Citing Actual Green New Deal Document

[The Purge]

Yes the FACT CHECKERS are part of the DeathRAT Party and the swamp!

The “fact checkers” keep sounding like they’re merely doing aggressive spin for the Democrats. On February 25, PolitiFact flagged Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) as “False” for writing in an Orlando Sentinel op-ed that the Green New Deal has a goal of “ending air travel.”

Just like the Washington Post “fact checkers who hammered Rep. Liz Cheney on this,” PolitiFact’s Amy Sherman says “climate advocates” insist everyone should ignore the FACT that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s team put out a Frequently Asked Questions document that explicitly said “We set a goal to get to net-zero, rather than zero emissions, in 10 years because we aren’t sure that we’ll be able to fully get rid of farting cows and airplanes that fast.”

PolitiFact went further, insulting Team AOC by suggesting perhaps their proposal was “in jest!” Sherman concluded:

(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...

 

[airplanemechanic]

Newsbusters?

 

[Marion Morrison]

Everyone should be their own fact-checkers, to not be is intellectual laziness.

Then again, there's a whole generation raised to be incapable of doing their own fact-checking.

To be more precise, parts of a whole generation raised in certain areas of the country.

 

[Deplorable Yankee]

whats wrong with news busters ?
they just report on the MSMs shenanigans
OH thats right they call themselves a conservative organization

 

[JimBowie1958]

To leftists, if they dont like it, it is not true.

 

[Missourian]

Water is wet, the sky is blue, the media is corrupt, journalism is dead...

 

[Marion Morrison]

Yes the FACT CHECKERS are part of the DeathRAT Party and the swamp!

The “fact checkers” keep sounding like they’re merely doing aggressive spin for the Democrats. On February 25, PolitiFact flagged Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) as “False” for writing in an Orlando Sentinel op-ed that the Green New Deal has a goal of “ending air travel.”

Just like the Washington Post “fact checkers who hammered Rep. Liz Cheney on this,” PolitiFact’s Amy Sherman says “climate advocates” insist everyone should ignore the FACT that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s team put out a Frequently Asked Questions document that explicitly said “We set a goal to get to net-zero, rather than zero emissions, in 10 years because we aren’t sure that we’ll be able to fully get rid of farting cows and airplanes that fast.”

PolitiFact went further, insulting Team AOC by suggesting perhaps their proposal was “in jest!” Sherman concluded:

(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...

That would be called "running cover".

 

[SassyIrishLass]

PoliticFact is about as reliable as Snopes...in other words avoid them

 

[JimBowie1958]

PoliticFact is about as reliable as Snopes...in other words avoid them

I dont think that 'unreliable' does them enough justice.

They are hired Dimocrat shills.

 

[Eric Arthur Blair]

PoliticFact is about as reliable as Snopes...in other words avoid them

These are left wing sites whose effectiveness, to the degree they are effective, is in portraying itself as straight down the middle arbiters of issues and facts in a disinterested non partisan way.

Of course Snopes and Politifact lie and their entire purpose is to give left wingers a place where they can go and claim
this impartial fact finder validates what they are claiming, which is a lie.
Snopes Lies Again, Claims New York Bill Didn’t Really Legalize Abortions Up to Birth | LifeNews.com

 

[RealDave]

The fact remains that most Republicans are lying about the NGD

 

[SassyIrishLass]

PoliticFact is about as reliable as Snopes...in other words avoid them

These are left wing sites whose effectiveness, to the degree they are effective, is in portraying itself as straight down the middle arbiters of issues and facts in a disinterested non partisan way.

Of course Snopes and Politifact lie and their entire purpose is to give left wingers a place where they can go and claim
this impartial fact finder validates what they are claiming, which is a lie.
Snopes Lies Again, Claims New York Bill Didn’t Really Legalize Abortions Up to Birth | LifeNews.com

They give left loons a warm and fuzzy and a false sense of security in their beliefs

 

[Eric Arthur Blair]

They give left loons a warm and fuzzy and a false sense of security in their beliefs

Politifact and Snopes' job is to support that illusion through carefully crafted lies and language.