{"id":1354858,"date":"2022-03-02T11:54:05","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T16:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1354858"},"modified":"2022-03-02T12:09:04","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T17:09:04","slug":"politifact-faceplants-with-hilariously-bad-fact-check-of-maria-bartiromo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/politifact-faceplants-with-hilariously-bad-fact-check-of-maria-bartiromo\/","title":{"rendered":"PolitiFact Faceplants With Hilariously Bad \u201cFact Check\u201d of Maria Bartiromo"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpolitifact-faceplants-with-hilariously-bad-fact-check-of-maria-bartiromo%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1354858&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/GettyImages-532703250.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"wpsdc-drop-cap\">I<\/span>n what may be a first for the alleged fact checkers at PolitFact, a claim by Maria Bartiromo has been found to be both true, and also false at the same time!<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, misinformation merchant Yacob Reyes attempted to fact check Bartiromo\u2019s statement that \u201cWe have doubled our oil imports from Russia in the last year,\u201d rating it mostly false, stating \u201cThe U.S. did not double oil imports from Russia in the last year.\u201d Then when you scroll down two paragraphs in his article, we learn that \u201cThe U.S. did double the amount of crude oil imported from Russia last year. But Russia accounts for only about 3% of overall U.S. crude oil imports in 2021.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So it\u2019s \u201cmostly false\u201d\u2026 but also literally true.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PolitiFact?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@PolitiFact<\/a> &#038; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yacob_reyes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@yacob_reyes<\/a> should be banned for spreading misinformation on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Twitter?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Their game usually goes as follows: Deceiving headline &#038; meter, and the truth found buried in the article, knowing that most people only read headlines.<\/p>\n<p>Malicious deception.<\/p>\n<p>Prime example \ud83d\udc47\ud83c\udffb <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vmkKNp5m9Y\">pic.twitter.com\/vmkKNp5m9Y<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Reagan Battalion (@ReaganBattalion) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ReaganBattalion\/status\/1498699588823359493?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 1, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Since what Bartiromo literally said is literally true, Reyes decided to also editorialize on the \u201cimplications\u201d of her comment, which he uses to justify the \u201cmostly false\u201d rating.<\/p>\n<p>Reyes writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The U.S. more than doubled its crude oil imports from Russia, to about 208,000 barrels a day in the first 11 months of 2021, from 76,000 barrels a day in 2020. But Bartiromo\u2019s broader point was about the extent of U.S. reliance on Russian oil, which remains fairly modest. Russia accounted for only about 3% of overall U.S. crude oil imports in 2021 \u2014 a 2 percentage point increase from 2020.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>What Bartiromo implied from her factual statement as it pertains to a greater narrative is irrelevant, as that\u2019s not the claim being fact checked. Reyes is free to evaluate that separately, but his \u201cmostly false\u201d rating is specifically applied to the claim that \u201cWe have doubled our oil imports from Russia in the last year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the piece continues in the theme of fact checking a version of Bartiromo\u2019s claim that Reyes simply made up in his head. While Bartiromo was clearly speaking about crude oil, and a spokesperson for Bartiromo confirmed to Politifact their claim was about crude oil imports, Reyes then decides to ignore that and point out that the increase in imports hasn\u2019t been as large if you include refined products such as gasoline and kerosene (in which the case increase would\u2019ve been 28%).<\/p>\n<p>And that wasn\u2019t all.<\/p>\n<p>In another widely-mocked fact check yesterday, PolitiFact went after Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin\u2019s claim that \u00a0\u201cVirginia is one of only a handful of states that actually taxes our veterans\u2019 retirement\u201d all of which ultimately came down to how one defines the term \u201chandful.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">All told, 15 states tax military pensions. That\u2019s a minority, but certainly more than the &#8220;handful&#8221; Youngkin describes.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/E9sYZKuAuZ\">https:\/\/t.co\/E9sYZKuAuZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 PolitiFact (@PolitiFact) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PolitiFact\/status\/1498647906311618562?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 1, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Virginia is one of three states to fully tax military pensions, while twelve more tax them at reduced rates, for fifteen states in total taxing pensions. \u201cThat\u2019s a minority,\u201d Politifact\u2019s Warren Fiske writes, \u201cbut certainly more than the \u2018handful\u2019 Youngkin describes,\u201d before awarding his claim a \u201chalf-true\u201d rating.<\/p>\n<p>As for how one exactly defines what a \u201chandful\u201d of states is, PolitiFact can\u2019t even be consistent on. In one <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politifact.com\/factchecks\/2012\/sep\/14\/paul-summers\/summers-says-appeals-court-judges-used-be-picked-h\/\">prior PolitiFact \u201cfact check\u201d from 2012<\/a>, the writer describes a group of 34 members of the Democratic Executive Committee as a \u201chandful of party officials.\u201d While 34 used to be a \u201chandful\u201d at PolitiFact, the definition apparently shrinks to something less than 15 when a Republican uses the word.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Matt Palumbo is the author of\u00a0<i data-stringify-type=\"italic\"><a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/posthillpress.com\/book\/man-behind-the-curtain-inside-the-secret-network-of-george-soros\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https:\/\/posthillpress.com\/book\/man-behind-the-curtain-inside-the-secret-network-of-george-soros\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-977\">The Man Behind the Curtain: Inside the Secret Network of George Soros<\/a><\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Don\u2019t miss The Dan Bongino Show<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what may be a first for the alleged fact checkers at PolitFact, a claim by Maria Bartiromo has been found to be both true, and also false at the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1354858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1354858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1354858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1354858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1354858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}