Posted on 01/25/2019 11:30:23 AM PST by rktman
Snopes refused to correct an inaccurate fact-check calling it “unproven” that American Indian activist Nathan Phillips falsely claimed to be a Vietnam veteran. It’s a proven fact that Phillips falsely claimed to be a Vietnam veteran. Both Facebook and Google give Snopes preferential treatment on their platforms.
Snopes, a left-leaning fact-checking website given preferential treatment by both Facebook and Google, flubbed its fact-check of American Indian activist Nathan Phillips’ false claim of being a Vietnam veteran.
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You expected otherwise?
Sometimes the jokes make themselves up.
The toothless drug addicted alcoholic drum beater is a protected species. They must cover his tracks.
“botches”??
That’s hilarious. (I know you didn’t write that)
Snopes is run by lying Democrat thugs.
Hey, you’re gonna give thugs a bad name by comparing them to the lying Democrats at Snopes.
Snopes Introduces New 'Factually Inaccurate But Morally Right' Fact Check Result
Didn’t botch, didn’t flub. This is SOP for them.
Snopes = LIEberal = LIEs!
And, yet, at the bottom of the Snopes entry is the following revealing statement:
“In an older, rambling self-made Facebook video that surfaced after the controversy broke, though, Phillips can seemingly be heard to say (at around the 9:35 mark) ‘I’m a Vietnam vet, and I served in Marine Corps 72 to 76. I got discharged May 5th, 1976 … I don’t talk much about my Vietnam times. I usually say I don’t recollect, I don’t recall those years’”
“I never said I was a recon ranger, I said I was Freon changer.”
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: I think that there’s a lot of people more concerned about being precisely, factually, and semantically correct than about being morally right.
We don’t need no stinking facts.
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