Who's the Real Liar? by David A. Schwinghammer
Last edited: Wednesday, November 23, 2016
Posted: Wednesday, October 12, 2016
The national media has helped portray Hillary as untrustworthy. She won't confess to something she didn't do. But Politifact has done a study on which of the candidates lies more, and it's not even close. Let's hear more from the national media about how untrustworthy Trump is. Of course they won't do it; they'd lose ratings points.
I read an article on independent voters who didn't think they had much of a choice for president. One was a liar, the other a dirty old man. But where does that liar business come from? Bi-partisan Politifact did a fact-checker analysis of the two candidates which revealed the real liar:
Hillary Clinton Donald Trump
(263 rulings) (275 rulings)
True 23% True 4%
Mostly True 28% Mostly true 11%
Mostly False 15% Mostly False 17%
False 10% False 35%
Pants of Fire 2% Pants of Fire 17%
Pretty clear, huh? Hillary has a 27% rating between Mostly False and Pants of Fire. Trump has a 69% rating between Mostly False and Pants on Fire. When Hillary was Secretary of State she had a 65% approval rating. Then the Republican propaganda machine went to work on Benghazi (9 investigations that revealed no wrong doing and cost millions of taxpayer dollars). When that didn't work, Breitbart found out she used a personal server to send and receive e-mails. What the media doesn't say is that she had a security person who shut down the machine during the only time it looked like it was being hacked. She then hired three more guys to do around-the-clock security. She was never hacked. The State Department, on the other hand, using a server Hillary was supposed to use, has been hacked several times. Hillary wanted to do her job in the quickest most efficient way possible, something we can't say about the other party, who went home for three weeks before they finally passed a bill to fund Zika research. Everybody in Florida could be dead by now if they were depending on Congress to prevent an epidemic. I almost forgot Cheney. Does anybody really believe he didn't out Valery Plame, a CIA agent? He was investigated once, despite his initials being found on a memo discussing Plame. She didn't even do anything. Her husband wrote an op. ed. editorial questioning Bush/Cheney's contention that Saddam tried to get yellow cake uranium from Africa. He didn't. Trump did it again last night, blaming Hillary for what her husband supposedly did. Did you notice Trump's apology for his atrocious remarks about women didn't include any actual specific information he was sorry for? He's not sorry for anything he's ever done. Narcissists don't make mistakes.
A good analysis with a clear understanding of the facts. My sister has her pants on fire for Hillary, claiming that she is a criminal (Trump's assumption as well) and has engaged in all sorts of plots that have people killed and silenced. She wrote me yesterday that it was, "All in the news back then." Not reading tabloids, I probably missed it. ;-)
Like Trump, she blames the media and anyone who comes up with anything contrary to his/her assertions. She says that the fact checkers are all "liberal." She also includes the media and universities in this classification, even though I believe most the media is owned by rich, conservatively leaning interests.
As a source, she uses books by Roger Stone. You and I can distinguish between history and historical fiction. Apparently she cannot. Conspiracy theories are her.
Enough of my sister, a Tea Party member who said she was not voting for either. But she still is defending Trump.
thought provoking article!!
Never stop writing!!
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Like Trump, she blames the media and anyone who comes up with anything contrary to his/her assertions. She says that the fact checkers are all "liberal." She also includes the media and universities in this classification, even though I believe most the media is owned by rich, conservatively leaning interests.
As a source, she uses books by Roger Stone. You and I can distinguish between history and historical fiction. Apparently she cannot. Conspiracy theories are her.
Enough of my sister, a Tea Party member who said she was not voting for either. But she still is defending Trump.
Ron