Checking the Checkers: Clinton vs Trump speeches

Comparing how the AP "Fact Checked" two speeches. The double-standard is hysterical, in both meanings of the word. Comparing how the AP "Fact Checked" two speeches. The double-standard is hysterical, in both meanings of the word. ℹ️ Info           ~ Aristotle Sabouni Created: 2017-05-27

The AP (Administration's Press) did a couple of comedy pieces, playing a DNC water carrier, poorly disguised as fact checking. (WaPo, PBS, ABC, Yahoo, and a few other places ran these pieces, so they own that bias as well).

The idea appears to have been to cherry pick the worst 11 things Trump said, and play pedantics to make them look worse, while ignoring 57 things he said that were correct facts. Then compared that to the 11 best things Hillary said (with a few sacrifices to look objective), then excusing most of them, while ignoring 60 things they could have criticized her on, if they were measuring her by the same yardstick as Trump. Michael Moore couldn't have done it better.

The article's below summarize each of the two speeches and "FactChecks" to show not only how they use selection bias, standards bias, and other techniques within each "fact check" -- but also how massively obvious the bias is when you compare them side-by-side. (Assuming you believe that both side's politicians lie equally).

NOTE: Personally, I think the left lies more. Not because of any moral superiority on the right wing, but just because the right is held more accountable by the left wing media. So they normally are bullied into behaving better, while the left is excused, or the biased of the editors/fact checkers misses the lies in the first place. And that's generous (less cynical) -- the alternative is that they're liars and misleading the public on purpose.

Checking the Checkers: Trump Speech (or) Checking the Checkers: Clinton Speech • [2 items]

Checking the Checkers: Clinton Speech
For Trump, the FakeFactCheckers twisted 11 truths into lies and ignored 43 true facts. With Hillary, they went the other way. They ignored 59 lies, and checked 16 points. 8 of which were used to attack Trump on, 8 others were watered down. The point is the Fact Checkers embarassed themselves with their blatant bias/double-standards.

Checking the Checkers: Trump Speech
The AP (Administration's Press) did the DNC version of fact checking; which is to spin everything for the Democrat. It's embarrassingly bad journalism, and really just an op-ed piece by a Clinton supporter. Basically true 43 facts they ignored, 11 they tried to correct (but were wrong on 8), 3 were poorly worded.

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Bias Disproportionate weight for or against a person, place, idea or thing, usually ignoring evidence against.

Donald Trump A list of articles on Trump, his accomplishments, scandals (real and imagined).

Hillary Clinton Hillary's scandals that the media ignored or diluted, but defined her, them and her supporters. They were OK with all of this.

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