Posted on 04/08/2017 8:37:14 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
PolitiFact has pulled a 2014 fact-check on remarks about Syria by former Secretary of State John Kerry after the claim the Obama administration “got ‘100 percent’ of chemical weapons out of Syria” turned out to be false.
“Kerry said in a television interview that in Syria, ‘we got 100 percent of the chemical weapons out.’ Syria had agreed in 2013 to an ambitious program to destroy its chemical stockpiles under international supervision, as part of a deal brokered by Russia,” they explained. “When Kerry spoke in July 2014, the process seemed far along. Based on reports from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons — which later won the Nobel Peace Prize for its efforts — we rated that claim Mostly True."
".....One way or another, subsequent events have proved Kerry wrong.”
PolitiFact is often heralded as a reliable and neutral fact-checking source by the mainstream media and political establishment, despite numerous revelations over the past few years that the site is largely biased towards the left-wing.
Last year, it was reported that Politifact, which is partially funded by a large Clinton Foundation Donor, had made 13 errors in a fact-check on the Clinton exposé book, Clinton Cash.
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Memory hole.
“mostly true”. Is that “Blatherism (Dan Rather Speak)?”
It is entirely possible that all the Chemical Weapons were removed and destroyed in 2013, Juan McCrazy goes to Syria quite often, how do we know he isn’t Delivering a Fresh Supply everytime he goes???
Obama Lied About Removing All Chemical Weapons from Syria
Rush Limbaugh.com ^ | April6, 2017 | Rush Limbaugh
Posted on 4/6/2017, 2:28:24 PM by Kaslin
Obama Lied About Removing All Chemical Weapons from Syria
Apr 6, 2017
RUSH: There’s a fact-check outfit out there called PolitiFact, and it’s like all the other fact-check outfits. The Washington Post has one; the AP has one. These fact-check outfits exist only to discredit and impugn Trump. Well, the PolitiFact has had to retract a story they categorized as “mostly true” three years ago, and this story is big. Three years ago, Barack Obama and his Regime were an abject disaster. But they were claiming success after success after success, particularly in the Middle East.
One of the things that the Obama administration was celebrating was that they had completely removed chemical weapons from Syria. Obama drew that red line and the Syrians and everybody else realized the bad actor they were dealing with, and they cowered in fear, and they did remove 100% of their chemical weapons. There’s a problem now, though. Those chemical weapons were just used in an attack in Syria on Syrian citizens. So how could the Obama administration have gotten rid of all of these? The Obama… You know what the claim was? They claimed they gave all of that chemical weapons stock to the Russians.
Oh, yeah! Yeah, folks! The Obama administration — now the dire enemy of the Russians, victimized by the Russians — gave the chemical weapon stocks in Syria to the Russians.
Which means the Russians probably gave it right back to the Syrians. But the PolitiFact story retracts a 2014 article that said it was “mostly true” that the Obama administration “helped broker a deal that successfully removed 100% of chemical weapons from Syria.” So a story that was a lie backed up by PolitiFact for three years has been retracted, and the upshot is the Obama administration did not succeed in successfully removing all of Syria’s chemical weapons, as we now know because those weapons were used recently.
For full article go to the link below:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3541780/posts
There goes PolitiFact into the fake category.
Ha ha ha ha just go away Frenchie you’re a jerk and Obama’s puppet.
PolitiFact is an established member of the Fake News Club, issuing pompous pronouncements that are designed to set (or reset) a preferred narrative.
How can a definitive statement citing a specific number, be "mostly true"??? It's either true, or not true. The number can be 10%, 67% or 99%, but if it's anything less than 100%, it's a FALSE statement.
I always laugh when I hear Rush Limbaugh say that his latest ratings prove that he's 'almost always right 99.75% of the time', and imagine liberal heads exploding when they hear it, because they think he's bragging about being within a hair's breadth of perfection. It's a very clever statement he's making and doesn't really mean what it sounds like at first listen.
So, it wasn’t a fact after all. Makes you wonder what “fact” will fall next.
Obama: “the sky is blue”
Politifact: “100% true”
Trump: “the sky is blue”
Politifact : “100% false”
i thought I had lived long enough to not have to see or hear the name John Kerry again.
From another thread, the statement omitted "declared" in front of "chemical weapons", and the declared weapons were old and ineffectual, oh, and probably from the inventory list that the BHO administration gave them as to what was to be destroyed to give BHO/Kerry the manure to spread.
are you kidding? ol’ lurch is comedy gold! i wish he would run again...
He was for the removal of chemical weapons before he was against it.
Can I get me a WMD?
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