By naming this ‘lie of the year,’ PolitiFact showed itself to be less seeker of truth than servant of power.”. FactCheck.org’s Jackson has even said he’s not comfortable with PolitiFact’s Truth-O-Meter that rates some political claims as “Pants on Fire.” “I’ve never been able to see an academically defensible way to hand out those kinds of ratings,” Jackson said (Human Events, Aug. 30, 2012).

Seattle, WA 98109 Ayers was a former member of the homegrown terrorist group, the Weather Underground, which took credit for bombing the Pentagon, the Capital Building, and the New York City Metro Police Department plus 30+ other bombings during the Vietman War era. But later, PolitiFact admitted that what its gumshoes called the “Lie of the Year” was the “literal truth.”.

License: https://goo.gl/QPEoSg. Bill Gates’ was a member of China’s Academy of Sciences who built the lab and he was awarded their highest honor.

Two police officers were killed in 1981, when members of the Weathermen and Black Liberation Army stole $1m from an armoured car. We disagree about how to improve U.S. health care, and we disagree about how each other’s proposals to change it should be characterized. “It’s about time.” The chief competitor to FactCheck.org engaged in some gloating as well. Cheney said “FactCheck.com”— rather than “.org”—had defended his actions while he was CEO of Halliburton. Part of that body of work in 2008 included rating as “true” the promise by candidate Obama that “if you’ve got a health care plan that you like, you can keep it” under his health care proposal. Those rumors are untrue. The Obama camp has yet to supply the documents to the judge. Yet, that’s what the PolitiFact stats would have the public believe. For a time, Democrats sough to blame fake news for Hillary Clinton’s loss before President Donald Trump snatched the term to describe questionable reporting by the liberal mainstream media. "I understand why there is so much emotion, but conflating these issues will slow down progress for tens of millions of women. * A certified copy of Obama’s Certification of Citizenship Just 22 percent of those liar ratings were given to Democrats (Weekly Standard, Dec. 19, 2011). If the obviously rhetorical “death panel” phrase was taken literally for a fact-check and called the “Lie of the Year,” wouldn’t consistency demand the same for these instances of inflammatory Democratic rhetoric? But again, don’t forget that when candidate Obama was running for president in 2008, the website went out on a limb to falsely certify this very claim as true. But the Chicago Annenberg Challenge most certainly knew who it was aligning itself with in Ayers, a notorious former leader of the Weather Underground group that took credit for bombing the U.S. Capitol and the Pentagon in the 1970s. Our rating still stands, however, because the ad distorts Trump’s views on access to public bathrooms.”, The fact-checking website doubled down on its conclusion after it was backed into a corner.

This rating came in an Oct. 9, 2008 article, about a month before the election.

License: https://goo.gl/yzNjnQ. Obama and Ayers sat together on the board’s Governance Committee. Catching politicians in lies is no doubt a worthy endeavor.

On September 29, Judge Barclay Surrick denied the motion to dismiss and ordered three separate items to be delivered to the judge in three days: * A certified copy of Obama’s birth certificate This site uses cookies and similar technologies to store information on your computer or device. PolitiFact essentially had no choice but to stop defending the law. In the amended post, the phrase “it’s not accurate to say that transgender women are men,” became, “it’s not entirely accurate for Cruz to define a transgender woman as ‘a grown man pretending to be a woman.’”.

The two pioneering fact-checking organizations are affiliated with nonprofit groups. Ayers co-chaired the Chicago Annenberg “Collaborative”, which set education policy for the “Challenge”. –Times Online. Or that the controversies surrounding Obama, such as his ties to Bill Ayers, a former member of the violent Vietnam War era Weather Underground terrorist group, and the veracity of Obama’s “birth certificate” are both linked to Factcheck and Annenberg. Factcheck.org “verified” the Obama birth certificate yet intrepid bloggers Atlas Shrugs as well as Yid With A Lid have found several inconsistencies which call into question whether the certificate is “authentic”. The judge ordered on September 29 for the three documents to be presented by Obama within 3 days.
Conservative writer Ramesh Ponnuru said the Democratic claim misled seniors but wasn’t a lie. Rumors have circulated across the web that the judge “dismissed” the case. All Rights Reserved. Out of a total of 98 statements, Republicans were associated with 74 of the “False” or “Pants on Fire” ratings on the Truth-O-Meter.
After all, the rest of us ordinary Average Joe’s have to fork over a copy of our birth certificates every now and then to prove we’re citizens in order to get a something as mundane as a driver’s license. Both of these groups go far beyond what they say they do, claiming to fact-check subjective things like political rhetoric that are not susceptible to fact-checking. The Left’s New Radicals and the Big Money Behind Them, Hayden Ludwig on Arabella Advisors, Dark Money, and the Upcoming Election, A “Perversely Bold” Idea: Eliminate Private Foundations. Both FactCheck and PolitiFact are routinely criticized for leaning left, particularly PolitiFact. Cato Institute health analyst Michael Cannon, who had previously agreed to do interviews with PolitiFact, stopped talking to its resident fact-checkers over the so-called lies from 2009 and 2010. Factcheck was also chosen by the Obama campaign as the arbitrar of whether Obama’s birth certificate, which purportedly proves he’s a citizen of the United States, is authentic. The timing was a coincidence, the subject, Ayers’ memoir, Fugitive Days: ”I don’t regret setting bombs,” Bill Ayers said. Berg’s suit claimed that Obama is not a natural born citizen of the United States is therefore uneligible to run for President. Similar Annenberg Challenge programs were established in other cities. Roy said a proper calculation shows Gingrich was correct, even though FactCheck.org claimed it was false.

Although it now accepts donations from the public, the private Annenberg Foundation has been its main benefactor, giving the project $87,502,844 since 2004. Jackson and Jamieson co-authored UnSpun in 2007 to explain how to see through lies and spin. 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Bill Ayers was pictured standing on the American flag. The foundation has roots as a traditional grantmaking institution and In situations like that—which I agree are common—what should journalists committed to truth-telling do? Brooks Jackson, the director emeritus of FactCheck.org, claimed responsibility for leading the media charge to keep the candidates honest.

The docuseries pushed the need for the Gates’ Foundation to receive funding to carry on virus research to prevent the next PANDEMIC! Should the absence of a formal GOP declaration of war against women in 2012 qualify as a lie? Clarification – It was inaccurate to say the judge has demanded the documents: the judge in Berg v Obama has not ruled on various motions yet. Even something as highly regarded as the Congressional Budget Office’s 10-year revenue and spending projections can’t be fact-checked per se, because of unforeseen wars or natural disasters that might occur, or plain old irresponsible spending. In 2014, the “Lie of the Year” ended up being less controversial: “Exaggeration about Ebola.” Perhaps the worst one could say about the conclusion is that “exaggeration” is by definition something short of a lie. The goal of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge was to distribute millions of dollars to the Windy City’s government-run schools in partnership with other nonprofit groups. Usurped Powers By Repetition Unconstitutional Annenberg Foundation Gives $1 million and its Annenberg Space for Photography Collection to Library of Congress. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. * Obama’s first fundraiser for Illinois Senate hosted by Ayers and Dohrn, * The link between Michelle Obama and Ayers visa-a-vis a panel to discuss a book written by Ayers, * A longtime radical friend of Ayers who blogs for Obama. Program: United States

In 2008, at a critical point in the presidential campaign, PolitiFact rated the ‘keep your plan’ promise as ‘True,’” Avik Roy wrote. Lord knows the decision about a Truth-O-Meter rating is entirely subjective,” he said.

“It’s really remarkable to see how big news operations have come around to challenging false and deceitful claims directly,” he said. In the 1970s, he was a head of the radical Weathermen and one of America’s Ten Most Wanted, along with his wife, Bernardine Dohrn, but he is now a distinguished professor of education at the University of Illinois in Chicago. In Chicago, the program assumed a decidedly ideological slant, which shouldn’t be shocking considering the involvement of Obama and Ayers. http://www.sunnylands.org. A study two years later from George Mason University’s Center for Media and Public Affairs similarly ruled: “PolitiFact.com has rated Republican claims as false three times as often as Democratic claims during President Obama’s second term, despite controversies over Obama administration statements on Benghazi, the IRS and the AP” (U.S. News and World Report, May 28, 2013). A Rasmussen poll before Election Day found that 29 percent of likely voters believe the media’s fact-checking of political candidates, while 62 percent think the media just “skew the facts to help candidates they support.”. From September through Election Day, Republicans overall received a “Pants on Fire” ranking 28 times, and half of those went to Trump. Purpose: to provide conference support for Sunnylands Math Strategy Group as it convenes three workshops in 2013

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Charges against Ayers were dropped after the FBI was accused of using illegal wiretaps. Still, Roy gave the site the benefit of the doubt for a faulty calculation, a more generous analysis than he gave other fact checkers, and added, “FactCheck.org only makes one appearance on this list, and I generally consider them the best of the bunch in terms of the fewest obvious errors” (Forbes, Nov. 5, 2012). PolitiFact expanded into 11 other states through partnerships with major metropolitan newspapers such as the Austin American-Statesman, the Atlanta Journal- Constitution, and the Miami Herald. Palin used the phrase “death panels” in describing Obamacare. Ayers and Obama were “part of a group of four instructed to draft the bylaws that would govern CAC”.

Allison Holmes. “in its article detailing why the President’s promise was a lie, PolitiFact neglected to mention an essential detail.