Monday, November 30, 2015

PolitiFact struggles with a fact check

So the story starts with gas bag Arsalan Iftikhar going on NBC's MEET THE PRESS this month and declaring, "59 percent of Americans today believe that Barack Obama is still a Muslim."

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And Louis Jacobson handles what passes for a fact check at POLITIFACT.

Jacobson goes to great length to disprove the figure and eventually to rate the claim false due to the figure.

And this is a fact check?

Do they know how to read at POLITIFACT?

Can they comprehend?


The gas bag did not say, "59 percent of Americans today believe that Barack Obama is a Muslim."

He said, "59 percent of Americans today believe that Barack Obama is still a Muslim."

Still.

They never address that claim.


While insisting they are disproving the claim that Barack is a Muslim.

The statement is false and that's not just for the 59% figure -- it's also because the gas bag is declaring that Barack was a Muslim at some point.







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