{"id":7661,"date":"2012-08-07T18:32:41","date_gmt":"2012-08-07T22:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=7661"},"modified":"2012-08-07T18:47:21","modified_gmt":"2012-08-07T22:47:21","slug":"politifacts-bias-reid-romney-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2012\/08\/07\/politifacts-bias-reid-romney-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Yet Another PolitiFiction Limerick"},"content":{"rendered":"

After last year’s Politifact \u201cLie of the Year\u201d debacle,<\/a> I’ve been trying to just ignore Politifact’s Truth-O-Meter fakery.<\/a><\/p>\n

But Politifact is to “truth” what Fox News is to “fair and balanced,” and it does a tremendous amount of damage. Here’s Scott Lemieux<\/a> on Politifact’s latest just-pretend truth-telling regarding Harry Reid’s claim<\/a> that he was told Romney didn’t pay taxes for ten years:<\/p>\n

\nOnce again, [Politifact has] awarded a \u201cpants on fire\u201d award, in this case to Harry Reid, despite providing no evidence whatsoever that Reid lied. Here\u2019s the problem:<\/p>\n

“Many readers asked us to put Reid\u2019s claim to the Truth-O-Meter. We conclude that Reid, despite repeating the claim on at least two occasions, has not produced any solid evidence it is true.”<\/p>\n

This does not, in fact, constitute a \u201clie.\u201d If it is, then Romney has told \u201cpants on fire\u201d lies about what he\u2019s paid in taxes in the years we don\u2019t have returns released for as well. And PolitiFact is double-pants-on-fire-with-an-additional-Pinocchio lying, since they haven\u2019t provided the slightest evidence that Reid wasn\u2019t told by someone that Romney hasn\u2019t paid taxes. As always, PolitiFact simply doesn\u2019t understand what facts and lies are, which is kind of a problem when you purport to be a fact-checker.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yet Another PolitiFiction Limerick
\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n

Dear Politifact, kindly stop lying.
\nThough you claim to check facts, I’m not buying.
\nYou pretend to the role
\nOf a fact-checking soul,
\nBut it’s pro-Romney lies you’re supplying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After last year’s Politifact \u201cLie of the Year\u201d debacle, I’ve been trying to just ignore Politifact’s Truth-O-Meter fakery. But Politifact is to “truth” what Fox News is to “fair and balanced,” and it does a tremendous amount of damage. Here’s Scott Lemieux on Politifact’s latest just-pretend truth-telling regarding Harry Reid’s claim that he was told […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21,20,196,126,6,7,3,9],"tags":[192,194,2826,275,1250,2056,1733,2030,2055],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7661"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7661"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7683,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7661\/revisions\/7683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}