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Bizarre State of the Union 'fact checks' fall flat, as media accused of nitpicking
Fox News ^ | Feb. 6, 2019 | Brian Food

Posted on 02/06/2019 1:02:04 PM PST by gattaca

Media outlets bent over backwards Tuesday night to fact check President Trump's State of the Union address -- but were accused of reaching with a string of rapid-response tweets and other analysis that came off as nitpicking.

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1 posted on 02/06/2019 1:02:04 PM PST by gattaca
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To: gattaca
#meblackfacetoo. I want to apologize for the wearing of a black face in my younger years. Sorry, but that wasn't me. Sorry, but I must apologize for saying that it wasn't me. I apologize for apologizing about my apology. Oh, make this stop.

By the way, I really never, ever wore a black face in my life. And, I never ever invited a female to my room under the pretext that I "had to papers" to pick up. I should run for office now.

2 posted on 02/06/2019 1:14:25 PM PST by Purdue77 (Okay, I'm too cheap to afford a tag line.)
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To: gattaca

Hey, hey, hey, those “reporters” had to go through a hell of a lot of Twitter posts to do their “fact checking”.

Give ‘em a break. They’re not exactly the fastest flies on the poop pile.


3 posted on 02/06/2019 1:14:25 PM PST by Da Coyote
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To: Purdue77

Oops. This should have appeared in another thread.


4 posted on 02/06/2019 1:16:28 PM PST by Purdue77 (Okay, I'm too cheap to afford a tag line.)
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It works. The media never bothers to fact check Dems.


5 posted on 02/06/2019 1:20:46 PM PST by gattaca ("Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives." Ronald Reagan)
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Yeah. I wondered where all the fact check articles, reports, and articles were this morning. Fact checks that proved Trump was a liar and he made up numbers and his statistics were wrong and so forth.

There were none. Because the facts speak for themselves. However, that did not exclude the fact that the Democrats and the lying media will still, and did still, make up their own lies as they distorted the truth. But that’s what they do.


6 posted on 02/06/2019 1:23:30 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
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did the media ever fact check Obama?


7 posted on 02/06/2019 1:24:14 PM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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Doesn’t matter if the masses don’t care much for what the media did - have to remember that there likely no bigger group of smug, self-satisfied egomaniacs in the world than those known collectively as ‘journalists.’


8 posted on 02/06/2019 1:52:18 PM PST by Quality_Not_Quantity (Even my cat voted Republican)
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The biggest “lie” the prog media has been hustling is that Trump’s claim of 5.4 million jobs is exaggerated. The rats and their minions all suddenly chimed in that the “real” number is 4.9 million, so...Trump Lied!

What drivel they were reduced to.

9 posted on 02/06/2019 1:55:26 PM PST by hinckley buzzard (Power is more often surrendered than seized.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

NEVER


10 posted on 02/06/2019 2:25:13 PM PST by SomeCallMeTim ( The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them!it)
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11 posted on 02/06/2019 4:04:41 PM PST by Para-Ord.45 (Americans, happy in tutelage by the reflection that they have chosen their own dictators.)
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