Quote (djman72 @ Apr 8 2019 08:19am)
hot shit;
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“Although memes are frequently grossly inaccurate, this one got the general idea correct,” Palma nevertheless wrote. “By our count, at least 34 Republican legislators who voted to repeal or partially repeal Obamacare will not be returning to Congress when the new session begins in January 2019.”
Despite Palma’s framing, the meme didn’t claim that 34 lawmakers who voted for Obamacare weren’t returning to Congress in January — it falsely claimed that “Everyone with an X has since been voted out of Congress.”
After TheDCNF reached out to Snopes for comment, the website edited its article to claim “the persons actually pictured in the accompanying photograph are difficult or impossible to identify.”
TheDCNF’s own fact check, however, successfully identified and reviewed all 34 people.
Snopes, which has struggled with accuracy in the past, did not inform its readers of the update.
I'm used to snopes just carrying water for democrats by passing off pure commentary / political arguments as 'fact checks' and smothering everything in as much spin as they can to reframe around their agenda
but that's just doing a piss poor job and being simply factually wrong and then dodging responsibility for it.
I think its like beating a dead horse to point out snopes' double standards, because if you used the same filter they use for any conservative to apply to any liberal it would be disparate on any claim. But can you imagine if all their fact checks of Trump's statements just handwaved any factual inconsistencies or false details and simply said, "Well, he's got the right idea overall, and he's making a political point we agree with, so its rated
True"
'the overall point is that the border is in a crisis, so anything Trump says about illegal immigration is
true!'
'the overall point is that the US is losing jobs to its trade deficit, so anything Trump says about trade is
true!'
This post was edited by Goomshill on Apr 8 2019 08:57am
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