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Title: Let the Distortions Begin (preparing for 2012)
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factcheck
URL Source: http://factcheck.org/2010/12/let-the-distortions-begin/
Published: Dec 23, 2010
Author: factcheck
Post Date: 2010-12-23 14:52:15 by go65
Keywords: None
Views: 2087
Comments: 9
It has been seven whole weeks now since the midterms, and – like you, perhaps – we’ve enjoyed watching football and "Glee" uninterrupted by campaign ads. But that doesn’t mean there’s no campaigning going on. Potential Republican presidential aspirants are off and running, jockeying for exposure on the airwaves and before audiences in key primary states. We have been keeping track, and have noticed some twisting of the truth – already! (We know, you’re shocked.) Sarah Palin revisits her earlier claim of "death panels" in the health care law, attributing the term to a different board than she did before the law was passed. But the claim is just as false: The Medicare advisory board doesn’t have the power to ration care, and its recommendations can be changed by Congress. Mike Huckabee maintains that he never supported a mandatory cap-and-trade system for reducing carbon emissions. But there’s ample evidence in a 2007 speech in New Hampshire — where he referred to "true cap and trade" — that he was endorsing a mandatory program, and has only recently flip- flopped. Mitt Romney’s attempts to differentiate his Massachusetts health care overhaul from the federal law enacted this year ring hollow. The laws have many similarities. And he’s wrong when he says the federal law cuts half-a-trillion dollars from "the private side of Medicare": cuts to the Medicare Advantage program total $136 billion over 10 years. Ron Paul’s claim that the estate tax "especially harms small and family-owned businesses" misses the mark — farms and businesses accounted for less than 10 percent of taxable estates even before the Obama/GOP compromise took effect, and most of them weren’t very small. Also, Paul’s claim of double taxation is only partly true. Much of the value of big estates is capital gains that has never been taxed. Tim Pawlenty writes that since January 2008, private sector employment has declined while public sector employment has increased. But he’s dead wrong about the public sector, where employment has gone down, not up. He used information that was months out of date and distorted by temporary Census Bureau hiring.
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#1. To: go65 (#0)
No need to read further.
Yes, facts don't matter to you, screeds from neo-nazi's hold weight though.
#3. To: go65 (#2)
Owe-bama quotes: 2008 - 'J O B S is the only thing we will focus on' 2009 - 'We are going to focus on job creation...' 2010 - 'Now, we are totally focused on creating jobs...' (laughing) Demonstrating running for President is one thing, but actually DOING THE JOB is another thing entirely, and Owe-bama still thinks its just one big campaign, not a J O B.
LMAO. They say a picture is worth a thousand words... So, with regard to "factcheck," How 'bout ANOTHER one? What made "factcheck.org" famous? Posting a photoshopped "birth certificate." What else? Here's a good summary of factcheck.org: On several occasions, I have double checked FactCheck.org after their “facts” have been blindly used by liberals in debates I’ve been a part of. Many of them that I have double checked have been skewed, misrepresented or completely false. Keith Olbermann, probably the biggest douchebag on the planet, has often times referenced information from FactCheck.org and has been found to be wrong. Of course, he’ll deny that and say it’s anti-liberal smear and attack squads that are singling him out and discrediting “facts” because if you don’t agree with his widely distorted and fucked up views, than you are an idiot and a horrible person. Well, not only is Olbermann sucking the FactCheck cock, but so is MSNBC as a whole, well except for Rachel Maddow: she doesn’t like cock (she is a lesbian if you didn’t know, which you probably didn’t because her show gets such shitty ratings). So what’s the real story behind FactCheck and it’s liberal bias? Who owns it? Well, the answer to that question is the now liberal group, the Annenberg Foundation. The Annenberg Foundation was founded by Walter H. Annenberg, who was at one point a loyal Reagan conservative and diehard Republican. However, Old Walter’s family have changed their tune. Now, the family has close ties to Barack Obama, Bill Ayers and the liberal front in general. For those who don’t know who Bill Ayers is, do a google search. However, in a nutshell, he led a group of extreme leftists called the Weather Underground (or Weathermen) during the Vietnam War era. His group took credit for bombing the Pentagon, the Capital Building, and the New York City Metro Police Department, as well as over thirty other bombings. Basically, he’s a leftist nutcase psycho fucksack and he’s not in prison. So how is Obama tied to Ayers and tied to the Annenbergs and thus FactCheck.org? To start, Ayers was the key founder of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, which was a Chicago public school reform project from 1995 to 2001. Upon its start in 1995, Obama was appointed Board Chairman and President of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. Geesh, that alone connects all three. Well, it branches out even more from there. Ayers co-chaired the organization’s Collaborative, which set the education policies of the Challenge. Oddly enough, Obama was the one who was authorized to delegate to the Collaborative in regards to its programs and projects. In addition to that, Obama often times had to seek advice and assistance from the Ayer’s led Collaborative in regards to the programmatic aspects of grant proposals. Ayers even sat on the same board as Obama as an “ex officio member”. They both also sat together on the board of the CAC’s Governance Committee. Obama and Ayers were two parts of a group of four who were instructed to draft the bylaws that would govern the CAC. Keep in mind that the “A” in CAC is for Annenberg, the owners of FactCheck.org. The funding for Ayer’s projects and those of his cronies was approved by Board Chair, Barack Obama. Together, Ayers and Obama guided money to ACORN. Everyone in America should be familiar with the ACORN bullshit, well unless you’re on Olbermann’s cock or you’re off titty- fucking Chris Matthews. When analyzing the source of FactCheck.org, one has to also take into account that the Annenberg owned site is ran through the Annenberg School for Communication which is a part of the University of Pennsylvania. UPenn, which I am calling it for abbreviation sake, is a liberally biased institution that has had its fair share of controversies in the past. In recent years, they have had several free speech issues, even though they were awarded the highest possible free speech rating by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. So, doesn’t all this make FactCheck.org, the Annenberg owned company, at least a little bit biased towards the left? When the issue of Obama’s birth certificate came up, FactCheck.org nipped it in the bud before it had the chance to truly become a scandal. They denied that the birth certificate was even an issue and Obama turned to them to “prove” that his birth certificate was legitimate. Clueless Americans and biased media outlets accepted the “proof” because, well.. it came from a website that no one knows much about. I’ve heard of faith in God, faith in man, faith in one’s self but never have I heard of faith in a mysterious website. I guess people just need something to believe in and Kool-Aid is tasty. Now I am not a so-called “birther” but I do not trust FactCheck.org’s findings and facts to be authentic. The birth certificate issue is just the tip of the iceberg. Their bias towards the left and especially Obama is obvious to anyone with half a brain cell. They demonize Republican politicians much more so than the Democratic ones. Every questionable thing Obama does is seemingly justified and logical if you reference FactCheck. While the often times common sense approach of libertarians and some in the GOP is stripped down and made to look like pipe dreams and idiotic wishful and naive thinking. So when it comes down to it, FactCheck.org’s power and legitimacy comes from “We the People”. Perception is king and if you perceive their “facts” to be facts, well then, in you’re mind, they are facts. Unfortunately, the internet has made people lazy. People no longer question things and look for the answers and the facts for themselves. They just do a google search and take either the first thing that pops up or they take the version that best suits their needs or what they already believe or perceive. But anyway, who the fuck am I? This could all be complete bullshit. You’ll never know though unless you look into it for yourself. In the end, depending upon where you stand, the truth could be anything or it could be nothing. I just tell myself that it’s all lies. So who is fact checking FactCheck.org?
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#2. To: Capitalist Eric (#1)
No need to read further.
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#6. To: go65 (#2)
Yes, facts don't matter to you...
Often times, I find myself in arguments with liberal peons and sometimes with blind hardcore conservative nuts. As far as the conservatives go, I pretty much disregard any “fact” (based on faith) that the religious contingent tries to throw my way. As far as the liberals go, I find myself having a hard time just accepting the “facts” that they use as the foundation of their arguments. The reason for my disregarding liberal “facts” is because more often than not, they come from their favorite go-to website, FactCheck.org. That’s cool and all but who the fuck are they? Who has made them the authority? Who the fuck funds them? And most importantly, who the fuck is checking their facts? It’s a fucking website, you may as well just take everything you read on Wikipedia as gospel. Hell, maybe every tweet you read is a short psalm of fact based liberal logic. Maybe every status update on Facebook is an agenda-less piece of liberal law as widely regarded and factual as anything that comes out of the mouths of liberal deities Al Gore and Barack Obama.
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