Fact check: First night of the Republican National Convention features more dishonesty than four nights of DNC [says CNN ]

CNN ^ | Tami Luhby, Anneken Tappe, Holmes Lybrand, Daniel Dale, Tara Subramaniam, Caroline Kelly and Paul P.

[MarvinStinson]

The Republican National Convention started off with a parade of dishonesty, in stark contrast with last week's Democratic convention.

While CNN also watched and fact-checked the Democrats, those four nights combined didn't have the number of misleading and false claims made on the first night of the Republicans' convention.

Here are some of the most noteworthy falsehoods from night one of the RNC:

[MarvinStinson]

"CNN holds elected officials and candidates accountable by pointing out what's true and what's not."

[MarvinStinson]

CNN's lead fact checker Daniel Dale.

Politico named Dale one of the "Breakout Media Stars" of the 2016 election.

[Cowgirl]

At some point we should be able to write CNN off. Like CNN? Never heard of um.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

Wow, that article took seven people I’ve never heard of to put out.

[Maudeen]

The picture says it all.

[Steely Tom]

[CNN] == [Fake News].

[Dilbert San Diego]

Is there any question about media bias going on?

They didn’t fact check the Democrat convention, but now, all of a sudden, it’s vitally important to fact check the Republicans???? Really?????

If they need to fact check one party but not the other, what does that tell you about their desire to fact check our political operatives????

[CatOwner]

You can try to write off, but CNN will remain heavily funded behind the scenes.

[Cowgirl]

True, but so is the drug industry and we generally don’t them attention unless you’re the police. We should write them off.

[P-Marlowe]

They are just handing over more ammunition to Trump.

[Timmy]

IF you can stomach reading the article, the “fact checks” are comically inaccurate. I didn’t see a single one that was legit.

[caww]

Why even post such nonesense....CNN is a propaganda entitity.

[billyboy15]

“Why even post such nonesense....CNN is a propaganda entitity.”

I agree and question the motives of those who seem to enjoy posting this crap.

[blue state conservative]

One of Trump’s “lies”, according to CNN, was his claim the pre -COVID economy was the best in US history. They claim that according to some group’s scorecard (that no one has ever heard of) it was better during the Eisenhower administration back in the 50s. You know back when the middle class could not afford a color tv.

[gov_bean_ counter]

https://youtu.be/nLEL-Gewt6E

[Spirit of Liberty]

I lurk at Democratic Underground from time to time (don’t have an account so I can’t post and out myself when my blood pressure goes through the roof). I knew the RNC was leaving a mark last night with all the screeching posts of ‘LIES!!!’ over there.

[Olog-hai]

Dale used to be at the Toronto Star. He hit the late Rob Ford with a lawsuit for “suggesting” he was a pedophile . . .

[joshua c]

I can see the Goebbels resemblance

[caww]

There's so much of CNN’s trash posted on FR anymore that it indeed raises suspicion about those posting it all the time. There's plenty of other news sites reporting instead of this trash.... CNN covets the attention with this junk reporting and we're giving them that.

[jmaroneps37]

Ha ha ha truth hurts.