{"id":1772424,"date":"2022-12-12T11:23:34","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T16:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1772424"},"modified":"2022-12-12T11:33:35","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T16:33:35","slug":"some-more-fact-checker-fails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/some-more-fact-checker-fails\/","title":{"rendered":"Some More Fact-Checker Fails"},"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\">8<\/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%2Fsome-more-fact-checker-fails%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=1772424&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>When debunking the so-called \u201cfact-checkers,\u201d I\u2019ve often quipped, paraphrasing Donald Trump, that \u201cthe fact-checkers aren\u2019t sending their best.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After reviewing hundreds of their \u201cfact-checks,\u201d it turns out I was wrong. This really is the best they have.<\/p>\n<p>Here are just three more absurd examples of fact-checking gone awry.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Ninth Circus<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In early 2017, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politifact.com\/factchecks\/2017\/feb\/10\/sean-hannity\/no-9th-circuit-isnt-most-overturned-court-country-\/\">PolitiFact\u2019s<\/a> Lauren Carroll rated Sean Hannity\u2019s unquestionably true statement that the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals is \u201cthe most overturned court in the country\u201d false.<\/p>\n<p>Carroll reviewed the stats from 2010 to 2015 and found that the Supreme Court reversed 79 percent of cases from the Ninth Circuit, which made it the third most reversed court by percentage.<\/p>\n<p>In calculating those percentages, Carroll had to look up the number of Ninth Circuit cases overturned and the total number of cases appealed to the SCOTUS\u2014yet the numerator in her equation doesn\u2019t get a mention.<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s because had Carroll mentioned them, she would\u2019ve had to admit that from 2010 to 2015, the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2017\/02\/21\/4-recent-examples-show-why-no-one-trusts-media-fact-checks\/\">Ninth Circuit<\/a> was overturned by the SCOTUS seventy-seven times\u2014while the next highest (the Sixth Circuit) was overturned twenty-eight times\u2014and that the Ninth Circuit had the most cases overturned every year.<\/p>\n<p>The overturned decisions by Circuit courts from 2010 to 2015 were as follows:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/content_9th.png\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/p>\n<p>As can be gleaned from the chart above, the Ninth Circuit is indeed the most overturned court in the nation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pete Buttigieg and the Case of the Racist Bridge<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In its most transparent act to save a Democrat from embarrassment to date, after Pete Buttigieg made the case that asphalt was part of systemic racism, the Washington Post was there to defend him\u2026and then reverse course after they realized they were wrong.<\/p>\n<p>In line with the Democrats \u201ceverything is racist\u201d approach to public policy, Buttigieg said at a press conference, with a straight face: \u201cIf a highway was built for the purpose of dividing a white and a black neighborhood, or if an underpass was constructed such that a bus carrying mostly Black and Puerto Rican kids to a beach, or would have been, in New York, was designed too low for it to pass by, that that obviously reflects racism that went into those design choices.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As conservatives roasted Buttigieg for the comical and borderline cartoonish picture he painted, the WaPo\u2019s Glenn Kessler said that the claims were backed up by a book on urban developer Robert Moses called The Power Broker. Kessler <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GlennKesslerWP\/status\/1457809268971868162\">quoted the following passage<\/a> to defend Buttigieg:<\/p>\n[Robert Moses] began to limit access by buses; he instructed Shapiro to build the bridges across his new parkways low &#8212; too low for buses to pass. Bus trips therefore had to be made on local roads, making the trips discouraging, long and arduous. For Negroes, who he considered inherently \u2018dirty,\u2019 there were further measures. Buses needed permits to enter state parks; buses chartered by Negro groups found it very difficult to obtain permits, especially to Moses\u2019s beloved Jones Beach; most were shunted off to parks many miles further on Long Island.<\/p>\n<p>Kessler learned of the passage from his colleague Philip Bump, who wrote an entire article defending Buttigieg that quoted from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/08\/this-is-why-its-useful-talk-about-historic-examples-institutionalized-racism\/\">The Power Broker<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Then, a mere two days later, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/10\/robert-moses-saga-racist-parkway-bridges\/\">Kessler tweeted<\/a> out: \u201cADDENDUM: Experts increasingly doubt this story,\u201d which was accompanied by an article he wrote explaining that it turns out this story about roads and bridges \u201chas largely been debunked.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also admitted that he was wrong to do a \u201cknee jerk\u201d defense of Buttigieg accusing infrastructure of racism.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no word on if your local overpass is sexist or homophobic, however.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fact-Checker Spins Out-of-Touch Claire McCaskill Comment, Immediately Realizes He\u2019s Wrong After Pressing \u201cPublish\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politifactbias.com\/2018\/10\/washington-free-beacon-politifact.html\">Missouri Democrat Senator Claire McCaskill<\/a> was quoted as saying that \u201cnormal people\u201d could afford private planes in a National Republican Senatorial Committee ad, PolitiFact\u2019s Louis Jacobson jumped to her defense to help pretend she didn\u2019t say something so embarrassingly out of touch.<\/p>\n<p>Jacobson took aim at an ad from the Senate Leadership Fund that quoted McCaskill as saying that, which he claims is out of context.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid McCaskill really say that \u2018normal people can afford private plans?\u2019 Jacobson asks. No \u2014 the ad leaves out the lead-in question from an audience member that prompted the remark.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jacobson tracked down video from the town hall where McCaskill made the remark, elaborating: \u201cIt doesn\u2019t show the full town hall\u2014or even the full comment that McCaskill was replying to\u2014but it shows enough to undermine the ad\u2019s argument.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The transcript of the eighteen-second clip he located in question captured the following exchange:<\/p>\n<p>Audience member: You know, that\u2019s one thing the United States has that nobody else has, is the freedom to fly around and be affordable where a normal person can afford it.<\/p>\n<p>McCaskill: Will you remind them when they come after me about my husband\u2019s plane? That normal people can afford it.<\/p>\n<p>Jacobson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politifact.com\/mccaskillarchived\/\">concludes from the remarks<\/a>, \u201cOne can argue with the wisdom of making this wisecrack. But it doesn\u2019t appear that McCaskill said that \u2018normal people can afford\u2019 private planes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After publishing his article, Jacobson was then sent the full town hall video which destroyed the entire premise of his fact-check, and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politifact.com\/factchecks\/2018\/oct\/17\/senate-leadership-fund\/did-claire-mccaskill-say-normal-people-can\/\">correction now appears<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Initially, we published this fact-check with a rating of False, because based on the video available, it did not appear that McCaskill was talking about private planes. After publication, we received more complete video of the question-and-answer session between McCaskill and a constituent that showed she was in fact responding to a question about private planes, as well as a report describing the meeting. We re-assessed the evidence, archived the original version here, and published the version you see here with a new rating of Half True. We apologize for the error.<\/p>\n<p>But even the revision from \u201cFalse\u201d to \u201cHalf True\u201d is inappropriate.<\/p>\n<p>The justification for the initial \u201cFalse\u201d rating was that: \u201cThe footage in the ad leaves out the lead-in comment that prompted McCaskill\u2019s remark. The full footage makes it clear that McCaskill is echoing an audience member\u2019s observation about how the US commercial aviation system is available to a \u2018normal person\u2019\u2014not saying that ordinary Americans can afford private planes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the revised article, the justification for the \u201cHalf True\u201d rating is: \u201cShe said those words, but the footage in the ad leaves out both the lead-in comment that prompted McCaskill\u2019s remark and the laughter that followed it. The full footage makes it clear that McCaskill was wrapping up a policy-heavy debate with a private-aviation manager and with a riff using the airport manager\u2019s words. In context, she was referring to \u2018normal\u2019 users of private planes, as opposed to \u2018normal\u2019 Americans more generally.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>How is \u201cnormal users of private planes\u201d for newspeak?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Matt Palumbo is the author of\u00a0<a data-remove-tab-index=\"true\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" data-stringify-link=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1637588208\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1637588208\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" tabindex=\"-1\" target=\"_blank\">Fact-Checking the Fact-Checkers: How the Left Hijacked and Weaponized the Fact-Checking Industry<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<i data-stringify-type=\"italic\"><a aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-46\" data-remove-tab-index=\"true\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" data-stringify-link=\"https:\/\/posthillpress.com\/book\/man-behind-the-curtain-inside-the-secret-network-of-george-soros\" href=\"https:\/\/posthillpress.com\/book\/man-behind-the-curtain-inside-the-secret-network-of-george-soros\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" tabindex=\"-1\" target=\"_blank\">The Man Behind the Curtain: Inside the Secret Network of George Soros<\/a><\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Don&#8217;t miss The Dan Bongino Show\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When debunking the so-called \u201cfact-checkers,\u201d I\u2019ve often quipped, paraphrasing Donald Trump, that \u201cthe fact-checkers aren\u2019t sending their best.\u201d After reviewing hundreds of their \u201cfact-checks,\u201d it turns out I was wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1772427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[5458,8125,8126,3819],"class_list":["post-1772424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-bongino","tag-fact-checker","tag-fails","tag-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772424","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=1772424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1772427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1772424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1772424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1772424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}