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Who's a 'Smear Machine'? PolitiFact Hails Harsh Parkland Teen Leftists on 'Lie of the Year'
newsbusters.org ^ | 12/12/2018 | Tim Graham

Posted on 12/12/2018 7:57:03 AM PST by rktman

The "independent fact checkers" at PolitiFact displayed their liberal stripes again this week by hailing the liberal student activists of Parkland High School as the victimized heroes of their 2018 "Lie of the Year." The "online smear machine" that tried to "take down Parkland students" was singled out as the very worst.

The PolitiFact online ballot for their liberal audience consisted of five Trump statements, one by Trump adviser Larry Kudlow, the Parkland "smear machine"....and then one each by socialists Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: 1a; 2018review; 2a; banglist; demlies; demoliars; florida; parkland
You will notice in the picture in the piece that apparently a so called nazi salute is acceptable. Civics? What's that?
1 posted on 12/12/2018 7:57:03 AM PST by rktman
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To: rktman

PRINT VERSION without ads and pics:

https://www.newsbusters.org/print/236072


2 posted on 12/12/2018 7:57:28 AM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: rktman

The little faggot needs a comeuppance................


3 posted on 12/12/2018 8:02:59 AM PST by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: rktman
Funny.

For a moment, I thought they were giving the "lie of the year" award to the leftist anti-Second Amendment students.

4 posted on 12/12/2018 8:03:46 AM PST by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: marktwain

That’s the way the headline reads.


5 posted on 12/12/2018 8:11:39 AM PST by OKSooner (Whatever happened to, "The midterms are safe."?)
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To: Red Badger

We got to install microwave ovens, custom kitchen deliveries
We got to move these refrigerators, we gotta move these color TV’s....


6 posted on 12/12/2018 8:12:13 AM PST by Hatteras
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To: Hatteras

That’s the way to do it!..................


7 posted on 12/12/2018 8:14:32 AM PST by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: Red Badger

The little faggot wants his own jet airplane.
The little faggot wants to be a millionaire.


8 posted on 12/12/2018 8:15:46 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: OKSooner

They’re just trying to “be more smarter” than us, yet again, by confusing us. Heil hoggmeister.


9 posted on 12/12/2018 8:19:52 AM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: NorthMountain

“The little faggot wants to be a millionaire.” Sadly, he probably will be. Just another chapter in the book of “Life Ain’t Fair”.


10 posted on 12/12/2018 8:21:08 AM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: NorthMountain

He’s in Dire Straits................


11 posted on 12/12/2018 8:21:33 AM PST by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: marktwain

That parkland thing like the Vegas one
Have deep state prints all over them


12 posted on 12/12/2018 8:24:37 AM PST by Truthoverpower (The guvmint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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To: Red Badger

Playing guitar on MTV?

Nah ... hasn’t the talent for that.

He’s telling lies on the CNN.


13 posted on 12/12/2018 8:31:35 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Hatteras

Since you started it.
How did we get from there to here & Dire Straits?


14 posted on 12/12/2018 8:49:23 AM PST by major-pelham
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To: Hatteras

Since you started it.
How did we get from there to here & Dire Straits?


15 posted on 12/12/2018 8:49:23 AM PST by major-pelham
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To: major-pelham

haha, don’t blame me, it’s that little faggot’s fault! :-)


16 posted on 12/12/2018 10:23:28 AM PST by Hatteras
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To: rktman

What a stupid “lie” to call the “lie of the year”.

The entire Politifact story is about how “horrible” it was, these constant “lies”.

But really, there was one falsehood, and it wasn’t even really a lie, it was people coming to the WRONG CONCLUSIONS.

That was the ‘lie’ that Hogg was from california, and therefore was probably a crisis actor hired. There was “evidence” for this, like the interview on a california TV station; it turned out he happened to get interviewed while on vacation, and he HAD lived in California previously, so that’s why he was in a california high school yearbook.

The point being, reasonable people could see those things, and reach an OPINION, and opinions are not lies, they are simply wrong.

And how did this hurt him? Not at all, even he says it helped him gain followers and fame. So it was a lie of no consequence, a lie that didn’t really hurt anybody.

They then talk about general comments about “crisis actors”, about other true statements attacking the kids (without calling them lies, but in an article about lies leaving the implication they were lies).

They even smeared the person who simply asked “how could hogg be at school, if he said he had to ride his bike 3 miles from home to GET to school to do interviews” (note that was not a claim, just a question, and once the question was answered, the person included the answer and apologized, so that’s hardly a “lie of the year”, like Obama telling millions of people they could keep their doctor, thus buying support for a bill that took their doctors from them).


17 posted on 12/12/2018 12:44:56 PM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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