Lol, I just stumbled over this gem:
https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/apr/23/mick-mulvaney/fact-check-did-top-democrats-vote-border-wall-2006/Quote (Mick Mulvaney)
"They voted for (a border wall) in 2006. Then-Senator Obama voted for it. Sen. Schumer voted for it. Sen. Clinton voted for it."
What does fact-check have to say to it?
Quote
Fact-check: Did top Democrats vote for a border wall in 2006?
[...]
Mulvaney said that Obama, Schumer and Clinton voted for a border wall in 2006.
They did vote for the Secure Fence Act of 2006, which authorized building a fence along about 700 miles of the border between the United States and Mexico.
Still, the fence they voted for is not as substantial as the wall Trump is proposing. Trump himself called the 2006 fence a "nothing wall."
Mulvaney’s statement is partially accurate, but ignores important context. We rate it Half True.
lolwut? They just acknowledged that Mulvaney's statement is entirely correct. It is 100% true. Rating it as just "half true" is clearly fake news and further proof for politifact's significant leftward bias.
That the 2006 bill and the border wall plans from 2018 cannot be compared one-to-one might be true, but this does not affect the correctness of Mulvaney's statement in the slightest, and politifact's job here was to judge this statement, not to use a fact-checking article to spread their preferred political spin.
This is not what neutral journalism or neutral fact-checking looks like. The correct verdict would clearly have been "The statement itself is true, but it implied a political context which can be considered misleading."
This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Jan 3 2019 01:35am