The Associated Press, as usual, obsessed only about the POTUS under the headline "Trump's exaggerated 'great American comeback.'" They offered nine checks on Trump's veracity and zero fact checks on Whitmer.
The Washington Post - under fact-checker extraordinaire Glenn Kessler, who insists he has a running count of more than 16,200 "False or misleading claims" by President Trump - offered 31 checks of Trump and zero of Whitmer.
FactCheck.org offered 14 checks of Trump and one sentence on how Whitmer was wrong to say that wages "Stagnated" under Trump.
Add up all these evaluations and Trump had 111 fact checks to Whitmer's three.
David Harsanyi at National Review offered a terrific article just taking apart The Washington Post fact check, calling these fact-checkers "Janissaries of the Obama legacy." Harsanyi noted that The Post "Mentions Obama 13 times in a piece about Trump's speech." What resulted was "a litany of partisan arguments masquerading as factual correctives."
Harsanyi observes: "It's quite the trick to not only censure Trump for bragging about oil and gas production but then, in the same fact check, confer on all the credit on Obama, who did everything in his power - including banning drilling on most public lands - to inhibit exploration and production."
Did these Obama defenders gear up to attack Obama's State of the Union addresses? A quick peek at Obama's speech in 2012, his reelection year, found PolitiFact could only muster three fact checks of Obama - and two of Sen. Marco Rubio's Republican rebuttal - compared with its 21-0 smacking of Trump.
https://townhall.com/columnists/brentbozellandtimgraham/2020/02/07/attack-of-the-factchecking-clones-n2560905
The Washington Post - under fact-checker extraordinaire Glenn Kessler, who insists he has a running count of more than 16,200 "False or misleading claims" by President Trump - offered 31 checks of Trump and zero of Whitmer.
FactCheck.org offered 14 checks of Trump and one sentence on how Whitmer was wrong to say that wages "Stagnated" under Trump.
Add up all these evaluations and Trump had 111 fact checks to Whitmer's three.
David Harsanyi at National Review offered a terrific article just taking apart The Washington Post fact check, calling these fact-checkers "Janissaries of the Obama legacy." Harsanyi noted that The Post "Mentions Obama 13 times in a piece about Trump's speech." What resulted was "a litany of partisan arguments masquerading as factual correctives."
Harsanyi observes: "It's quite the trick to not only censure Trump for bragging about oil and gas production but then, in the same fact check, confer on all the credit on Obama, who did everything in his power - including banning drilling on most public lands - to inhibit exploration and production."
Did these Obama defenders gear up to attack Obama's State of the Union addresses? A quick peek at Obama's speech in 2012, his reelection year, found PolitiFact could only muster three fact checks of Obama - and two of Sen. Marco Rubio's Republican rebuttal - compared with its 21-0 smacking of Trump.
https://townhall.com/columnists/brentbozellandtimgraham/2020/02/07/attack-of-the-factchecking-clones-n2560905
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