{"id":1463487,"date":"2022-05-04T10:14:34","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T14:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1463487"},"modified":"2022-05-04T10:14:40","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T14:14:40","slug":"politifact-fact-checker-learns-his-employer-is-source-of-claim-hes-trying-to-debunk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/politifact-fact-checker-learns-his-employer-is-source-of-claim-hes-trying-to-debunk\/","title":{"rendered":"PolitiFact \u201cFact Checker\u201d Learns His Employer Is Source Of Claim He\u2019s Trying to Debunk"},"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\">28<\/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-fact-checker-learns-his-employer-is-source-of-claim-hes-trying-to-debunk%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=1463487&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--><p><span class=\"wpsdc-drop-cap\">I<\/span>n the latest example of a PolitiFact \u201cfact checker\u201d stepping on a rake, reporter Yacob Reyes reached out to Ron DeSantis\u2019 Press Secretary Christina Pushaw for comment on the his recent claim that almost 60% of outstanding student loan debt is graduate school debt.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHello, I am writing a fact-check on a quick deadline following Gov. Ron DeSantis claim: \u2018The student debt that it out there, almost 60% of it is graduate school debt.\u2019 If you would like to provide supporting material for the claim, I would need to hear by 9 p.m. Meanwhile, I\u2019ll be continuing my own research and interviews\u201d he wrote in an email to Pushaw.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unclear how much research Reyes had done at the time of writing, as the source of DeSantis\u2019 claim was the non-profit journalism school and research organization Poynter, of which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poynter.org\/author\/yacob-reyes\/\">Reyes is himself<\/a> a staff writer for.<\/p>\n<p>Pushaw fired back at Reyes; \u201cHi Yacob, your own employer, Poynter, recently published research about this topic finding that 56% of outstanding student debt is owed by households that hold graduate degrees. I think 56% qualifies as \u2018almost 60%.\u2019 Thanks.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Florida fact-checking fail of the day <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PolitiFact?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@PolitiFact<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3sshvJc402\">pic.twitter.com\/3sshvJc402<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Christina Pushaw \ud83d\udc0a \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@ChristinaPushaw) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChristinaPushaw\/status\/1521610487426859010?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 3, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The article in question, published one day before Reyes emailed Pushaw for comment, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poynter.org\/reporting-editing\/2022\/can-and-will-biden-cancel-student-debt-for-43-million-americans\/\">noted that<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The foundation of that argument that debt forgiveness would benefit richer white Americans is found in the fact that people working in higher-income positions \u2014 for example, doctors and lawyers \u2014 took on a significant amount of student debt attending graduate and post-graduate school. The Brookings Institute says 56% of the outstanding student debt is owed by households that hold graduate degrees.<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Reserve Bank of New York spelled this out in a study that shows lower-income households would not benefit nearly as much as higher-income households.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Despite this misfire, Reyes still has yet to top his historic feat in mental gymnastics from just last March, where he attempted to fact check Maria Bartiromo\u2019s statement that \u201cWe have doubled our oil imports from Russia in the last year,\u201d rating the claim mostly false, stating \u201cThe U.S. did not double oil imports from Russia in the last year.\u201d Then two paragraphs into his article, Reyes writes 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>\n<p>I await his future work with glee.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Matt Palumbo is the author of\u00a0<i data-stringify-type=\"italic\"><a class=\"c-link\" tabindex=\"-1\" 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\" data-remove-tab-index=\"true\">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 the latest example of a PolitiFact \u201cfact checker\u201d stepping on a rake, reporter Yacob Reyes reached out to Ron DeSantis\u2019 Press Secretary Christina Pushaw for comment on the his<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1463487","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\/1463487","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\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1463487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463487\/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=1463487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1463487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1463487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}