Kamala Harris agreed to discuss the Puffball panel from the National Association of Black Journalists on September 17, and it was announced that Politifact would be involved in “checking facts”. Their Twitter channel displayed 14 Kamali answer controls. The first was marked as “false”, and all the rest was “real”, “accurate” or basically Okey-Dokey.
On September 11, Politifact achieved a modern milestone in leftist aggression. Former President Donald Trump was hit by the tag “Pants on Fire” for the 200th time with “Eating animals” in Springfield, Ohio. From June 1, he was marked with burning pants from June 1.
However, Harris has zero. For the first time she was elected in the entire state in California in 2010. This year, your two candidates, not exactly the “neck and neck” for 200 to nothing.
Compare this now with national politicians since Politifact appeared on the stage in 2007. Joe Biden has seven “pants” ratings, and only one as a president. Barack Obama has nine, Hillary Clinton has nine, Bill Clinton has three, and Bernie Sanders has the perfect zero like Kamala.
Even Republicans have nothing like 200. George W. Bush has zero, John McCain was eight, Ted Cruz has 11, Newt Ginggrich is 12, and surprising, Mitt Romney has 19 – and 18 of them arrived in 2011 and 2012, when he threw Obama by the White House. Their strangest Romney’s “pants” appeared when he said: “We are only a few centimeters since we are no longer a free economy.” You can argue that we did not have a free market near Obama in 2012.
Bryan White from politifactbias.com claims that this raw burning assessment “counts so basically, if not completely subjective.” This does not mean that some lies are not whoppers. This is when they hate something that is not as bad as they say.
In April, White distinguished “pants on fire” for Trump, claiming that he “did much better” in the elections in Wisconsin in 2020 than 2016, and “after finding offenses, people said:” Well, he actually won. ” The other half is false: Wisconsin lost narrowly.
But the first half is mathematically true: the number of Trump’s votes in 2020 was 1 610 184 in Wisconsin, and in 2016 there were 1 405 284 votes. So he had more votes. “He did better.” Only that he won the state in 2016 and lost it in 2020. It sounds like “real half”, not “pants”.
On September 4, Trump was assessed as “pants on fire” for calling Harris a “communist”. It is as if the host of CNN Hunt’s cash register recorded during the democratic convention “does not identify as a communist.”
Now turn around it to the other side. Many democrats and leftists called Trump “fascist”. Search a policy about a difficult assessment in this matter, and you will not find it. What you find is the rating of “in the middle of real” on Madeline Albright comparing the rhetoric “Drenare the Swamp” by Trump with the fascist Benito Mussolini.
When Biden compared the Republicans with the segregations of Jim Crow regarding the provisions regarding the integrity of voting, Politifact argued that the topic was too complicated for evaluation. They claimed: “Some historians say that the rhetorical point of Biden was justified as a way to emphasize the dangers of reviving with a seriously passing vote rights.”
These dramatic double standards regarding “facts” emphasize why so many voters do not trust “checking actual”. Trump has 1051 facts, and 805 of them are “mostly false” or worse – 76.6% of the wrong. Bernie Sanders has 176 facts, and 44 were on the false side – 25%. Bernie can call Trump a “fascist” and is good.
