Fact Checking The White House

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The AP fact-checker faulted Obama “gloss[ing] over some inconvenient truths” in his global warming lecture Tuesday, particularly in regard to his claims about America’s attempts to clean up emissions at home and his insistence that emissions reductions do not have an impact on the economy.
The fact-check says that not only did Obama distort the numbers to claim that in the last eight years the U.S. reduced total carbon pollution “by more than any other nation on Earth”—Europe actually reducing theirs by a larger percentage in that time—Obama is hiding the fact that the U.S. has largely lowered those emissions by “sending dirty fuel abroad to pollute the same sky.”

http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/ap-fact-check-shreds-obama-un-speech#.VCL9rMlKVx8.twitter

AP Fact-Check Shreds Obama UN Speech
Debunks key claims about America’s response to global warming
9.24.2014

Bradford Thomas

Fact Checkers Need Fact Checking

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the concerned folks at MSNBC opted to stop covering the speeches whenever a minority took the stage.
If the coverage of this convention is an indication of the trajectory the media will follow for the rest of the campaign, you can be sure of three things: Lies will be defined as facts that are inconvenient to President Obama, racists will be understood to be Republicans who are winning an argument, and truth will be slapped around like a hockey puck.

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/315558/correcting-reality-jonah-goldberg

National Review
AUGUST 31, 2012 12:00 A.M.
Correcting Reality
The liberal media brings out the hockey pucks.
By Jonah Goldberg

Is SNOPES Pure Bull?

David and Barbara Mikkelson are the husband-and-wife duo behind the myth-busting Web site Snopes.com.
Guy Raz/NPR
[Attributed to Alan Strong]
Is SNOPES pure bull?

Snopes is often quoted as the be all and end all for Truth Verification on many sites.

Maybe we should believe nothing of what we hear and 1/2 of what we see??
About _SNOPES.COM_ (http://snopes.com/) '
Who watches the watchers?
For the past few years _http://www.snopes.com/_ (http://www.snopes.com/)
has positioned itself, or others have labeled it, as the 'tell-all final
word' on any comment, claim and email. But for several years people tried to
find out who exactly was behind _http://www.snopes.com/._
(http://www.snopes.com/)
Only recently did Wikipedia get to the bottom of it - kinda made you
wonder what they were hiding. Well, finally we know. It is run by a husband and
wife team - that's right, no big office of investigators and researchers,
no team of lawyers. It's just a mom-and pop operation that began as a
hobby. David and Barbara Mikkelson in the San Fernando Valley of California
started the website about 13 years ago - and they have no formal background
or experience in investigative research. After a few years it gained
popularity believing it to be unbiased and neutral, but over the past couple of
years people started asking questions who was behind it and did they have a
selfish motivation?
The reason for the questions - or skepticisms - is a result of
_http://www.snopes.com/_ (http://www.snopes.com/) claiming to have the bottom line
facts to certain questions or issue when in fact they have been proven wrong.
Also, there were criticisms the Mikkelsons were not really investigating
and getting to the 'true' bottom of various issues.
A few months ago, when my State Farm agent Bud Gregg in Mandeville hoisted
a political sign referencing Barack Obama and made a big splash across
the internet, 'supposedly' the Mikkelsons claim to have researched this issue
before posting their findings on _http://www.snopes.com/._
(http://www.snopes.com/) In their statement they claimed the corporate office of State
Farm pressured Gregg into taking down the sign, when in fact nothing of the
sort 'ever' took place. I personally contacted David Mikkelson (and he
replied back to me) thinking he would want to get to the bottom of this and I
gave him Bud Gregg's contact phone numbers - and Bud was going to give him
phone numbers to the big exec's at State Farm in Illinois who would have
been willing to speak with him about it. He never called Bud. In fact, I
learned from Bud Gregg no one
[url=fromhttp://_www.snopes.com/][url=fromhttp://www.snopes.com/][url=fromhttp://www.snopes.com/]fromhttp://www.snopes.com/[/u rl][/url][/url_
(http://www.snopes.com/][url=fromhttp:/www.snopes.com/][url=fromhttp:/www.snopes.com/]fromhttp:/www.snopes.com/[/url][/url][/url) ]
ever contacted anyone with State Farm. Yet, _http://www.snopes.com/_
(http://www.snopes.com/) issued a statement as the 'final factual word' on the
issue as if they did all their homework and got to the bottom of things - not!
Then it has been learned the Mikkelsons are Democrats and extremely
liberal. As we all now know from this presidential election, liberals have a
purpose agenda to discredit anything that appears to be conservative. There
has been much criticism lately over the internet with people pointing out the
Mikkelsons liberalism revealing itself in their website findings. Gee,
what a shock?
So, I say this now to everyone who goes to _http://www.snopes.com/_
(http://www.snopes.com/) to get what they think to be the bottom line facts ...
'proceed with caution.' Take what it says at face value and nothing more.
Use it only to lead you to their references where you can link to and read
the sources for yourself. Plus, you can always Google a subject and do the
research yourself. It now seems apparent that's all the Mikkelsons do.
After all, I can> personally vouch from my own experience for their 'not'
fully looking into things.
_http://www.wikipedia.org/_ (http://www.wikipedia.org/)
_http://www.snopes.com/_ (http://www.snopes.com/)
I have found this to be true also! Many videos of Obama I tried to verify
on Snopes and they said they were False... Then they gave their Liberal
slant...!!! I have suspected some problems with snopes for some time now, but
I have only caught them in half-truths. If there is any subjectivity they
do an immediate full left rudder. Truth or Fiction's web-site
_http://www.truthorfiction.com/_ (http://www.truthorfiction.com/) is a better source
for verification, in my opinion.
I have recently discovered that is _http://www.snopes.com/_
(http://www.snopes.com/) owned by a flaming liberal and this man is in the tank for
Obama. There are many things they have listed on their site as a hoax and yet
you can go to YouTube yourself and find the video of Obama actually saying
these things. So you see, you cannot and should not trust
_http://www.snopes.com/_ (http://www.snopes.com/) for anything that remotely resembles
truth (SIC ESPECIALLY WHEN IT COMES TO LIBERAL vs CONSERVATIVE CONCERNS)! I
don't even trust them to tell me if email chains are hoaxes anymore.
A few conservative speakers on MySpace told me about
_http://www..snopes.com/_ (http://www..snopes.com/) a few months ago and I took it upon myself to do a little research to find out if it was true. Well, I found out for myself that it is true. Anyway just FYI, please don't use
_http://www.snopes.com/_ (http://www.snopes.com/) anymore for fact checking and make your
friends aware of their political leanings as well. Many people still think
_http://www.snopes.com/_ (http://www.snopes.com/) is neutral and they can be
trusted as factual. We need to make sure everyone is aware that that is a
hoax in itself.
Thank you,
Alan Strong, CEO/Chairman
Commercial Programming Systems, Inc.
4400 Coldwater Canyon Ave. Suite 200
Studio City, CA. 91604-5039
Phone: 888-277-4562 EX. 306/
Direct 888-812-9234 or 818-308-8561
Mobile 818-522-9319
FAX 818-301-2054.

Credibility Varies


Mike Millard says, "Wall Street sociopaths who lied for years about the soundness of mortgage-backed securities and credit default swaps still escaped real censure." (MIKE MILIARD, "Lie of the land, Lying liars, and the end of accountability," Boston Phoenix, October 7, 2009) The New York and California Attorneys General are or have investigated the three ratings agencies that gave Triple A ratings to the credit default swaps.

Millard observes that "more and more people flock to sites like Factcheck, Politifact and Snopes to double- and triple-check what they're hearing." What if one or all three of the fact checking sites are no different than the three ratings agencies? Who decides who to believe?

http://thephoenix.com/Boston/Life/90984-Lie-of-the-land/

Lie of the land
Lying liars, and the end of accountability
By MIKE MILIARD
Boston Phoenix
October 7, 2009

AP Fact Checks Obama (Finally)


http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/sns-ap-us-fact-check-obama,0,4021085.story

or

http://tinyurl.com/mjeobc

FACT CHECK: Obama offers escalating words of concern about the suppression of protests in Iran
ROBERT BURNS
Associated Press Writer
Chicago Tribune
2:06 AM CDT, June 24, 2009

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In a related story:


http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/Obama-teams-with-Philip-Morris-to-beat-tobacco-industry_06_24-48935107.html

or

http://tinyurl.com/kr8jhb


Obama teams with Philip Morris to beat ‘tobacco industry’
By: Timothy P. Carney
Washington Examiner Columnist
June 23, 2009 7:23 PM EDT