Media outlets desperately tried to find anything they could to fact check President Trump’s State of the Union address — but
Not Trump.
Politico was slammed big time on social media for declaring that president Trump’s claim that “one in three women is sexually assaulted on the long journey north” to America was only partly true — because it’s actually 31 percent.
Politico went to the trouble of making a little GIF, that was quickly “
SOTU fact check: Trump said “one in three women is sexually assaulted on the long journey north.” That's partly true.
— POLITICO (@politico) February 6, 2019
Full story: https://t.co/tgPJtI2Ojx
Transcript + annotations + analysis: https://t.co/vm3oMapatc pic.twitter.com/cewA0uneVn
Activist Obianuju Ekeocha responded with a woman using a magnifying glass captioned, “Politico fact checkers desperately looking to find the difference between 31% and 1 in 3.”
Politico fact checkers desperately looking to find the difference between 31% and 1 in 3… pic.twitter.com/qLRno9jOLK
— Obianuju Ekeocha (@obianuju) February 6, 2019
“Well thank you
Well thank you politico for pointing out to us that he rounded up 2% in his quote.
— Josh Peach (@JoshTPeach) February 6, 2019
NPR posted a fact check that critiqued president Trump’s State of the Union address for praising the record number of women in Congress simply because he didn’t mention that most of them are Democrats.
FACT CHECK: President Trump praised the record number of women in Congress, but that's almost entirely because of Democrats, not Trump’s party. https://t.co/cbixnX8mnk pic.twitter.com/GBppTBkZTI
— NPR Politics (@nprpolitics) February 6, 2019
Free Beacon managing editor David Rutz called the NPR fact-check “super-petty”, while social media strategist Caleb Hull pointed out that Trump “never claimed his party was responsible” for the increase in women in Congress.
“God Almighty this is embarrassing, even for the sad annals of fact-checking,” Rutz wrote.
Trump actually does something magnanimous for once and NPR does a super-petty "fact check," God Almighty this is embarrassing, even for the sad annals of fact-checking https://t.co/4rbzIjwjrY
— David Rutz (@DavidRutz) February 6, 2019
Media Research Center vice president Dan Gainor said Wednesday that “so-called ‘fact checks’ are one of the most discredited ways journalists now attack the right.”
“They are founded in a mix of liberal agenda and a desire to take snarky swipes at the president,” Gainor said. “In reality, they are fact checks on journalism itself and journalism is proven the worse for it with each stupid allegation.”
“Much as politically driven journalism has damaged the credibility of mainstream news media, so too politicized ‘fact checking’ is destroying the credibility of the fact-checking industry. In the age of Trump, ‘fact-checking’ too often is just a mask for political attacks,” Cornell Law School professor William A. Jacobson added.
New York Times White House correspondent Annie Karni criticized the president for saying “they came down from heaven” when quoting Holocaust survivor Joshua Kaufman, who was a prisoner at Dachau.
Trump just ad-libbed "they came down from heaven" when quoting a Holocaust survivor watching American soldiers liberate Dachau. Jews don't believe in heaven.
— Annie Karni (@anniekarni) February 6, 2019
“Jews don’t believe in heaven,” the Times reporter tweeted before backtracking after she was challenged by followers.
“Ironically, nowhere is the collapse of objective journalism more on display than with the so-called fact checkers. The ‘fact-checkers’, Hell-bent to prove Trump wrong, have become just another tool of advocacy journalism,” conservative strategist Chris Barron told Fox News.
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