Study: PolitiFact says Republicans lie more, a whole lot more....
The fact-checking organization PolitiFact has found Republicans to be less trustworthy than Democrats, according to a new study.
Fifty-two percent of Republican claims reviewed by the Tampa Bay
Times fact-checking operation were rated "mostly false," “false” or
“pants on fire,” versus just 24 percent of Democratic
statements, according to George Mason University's Center for Media and
Public Affairs. By the same token, 54 percent of Democratic statements
were rated as "mostly true" or "true," compared to just 18 percent of
Republican statements.
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The CMPA looked at 100 statements -- 46 by Democrats, 54 by
Republicans -- that were fact-checked by PolitiFact between January 20
and May 22. The study's findings are similar to a previous CMPA study,
which found that PolitiFact gave more negative ratings to the Romney
campaign than the Obama campaign in 2012.
See their complete findings here.
UPDATE (
9:45 a.m.): Bill Adair, the Tampa Bay Times' Washington bureau chief and editor of PolitiFact, emails:
PolitiFact rates the factual accuracy of specific claims; we do not seek to measure which party tells more falsehoods.
The authors of this press release seem to have counted up a small
number of our Truth-O-Meter ratings over a few months, and then drew
their own conclusions.
We've rated more than 7,000 statements since we started in 2007. We
are journalists, not social scientists. We select statements to
fact-check based on our news judgment -- whether a statement is timely,
provocative, whether it's been repeated and whether readers would wonder
if it is true.
Republicans LIE Three Times More Than Democrats
A new study from the nonpartisan Center For Media Affairs has
concluded that since the beginning of President Obama’s second term,
Republicans have lied three times more often than Democrats.
The Center For Media Affairs (CFMA) at George Mason University found
that PolitiFact rated Republican claims as false three times more often
than Democratic claims.
Not only do Republicans lie more often, but
Democrats are more truthful. By a 2 to 1 margin (22%-11%) PolitiFact
rated Democratic statements as completely true. The
CFMA also found that,
“A majority of Democratic statements (54%) were rated as mostly or
entirely true, compared to only 18% of Republican statements.
Conversely, a majority of Republican statements (52%) were rated as
mostly or entirely false, compared to only 24% of Democratic statements.
Despite controversies over Obama administration statements regarding
Benghazi, the IRS and the Associated Press, Republicans have continued
to fare worse than Democrats, with 60% of their claims rated as false so
far this month (May 1 – May 22), compared to 29% of Democratic
statements – a 2 to 1 margin.”
On this surface the fact that Republicans lie more than Democrats may
appear obvious, but beyond the numbers this study confirms that lying
is a major component of Republican political strategy.
The reason why Republicans can get away with lying so often is
because the mainstream media refuses to challenge them. The media has
become a willing accomplice in the GOP’s lie to win strategy by treating
lies as equal to facts.
Republicans know that they can go on television
and spread their false talking points with little or no resistance from
the media. Republicans have turned the press into empty headed
megaphones by refusing to speak to anyone in the media who will
challenge their lies. Republicans withhold access to anyone who refuses
to treat their lies as fact. That’s how the game works, and it is why
the corporate media turns a blind eye to blatant Republican falsehoods.
Republicans are claiming that
President Obama has a credibility problem with the American people,
when in reality the entire Republican Party lacks credibility. A
majority of Americans don’t believe what the Republican Party says
anymore. The Republican Party has so damaged their reputation that
anyone who runs as the Republican presidential nominee inherits a
credibility issue.
The CFMA study blows the media excuse that both sides do it out of
the water. Both sides don’t do it. Republicans are lying as part of an
intentional strategy to mislead the country. These aren’t a few false
statements by individual members of Congress. These lies are party wide
talking points. Congressional Republicans have based their
investigations of this president on lies, and they believe that if they
keep lying long enough, they can convince the American people that they
are telling the truth.
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FAT BASTARDO'S Op Ed:
The only Americans who believe that Republicans are not the biggest liars are either evil or stupid. Anyone who would vote for a Republican is either evil or stupid.
Confront the lying liars! It has been said that all politics is local so when some Republican is running for office confront that lying bastard and do it publicly. If it is legal in your state to record them without their knowledge DO IT and expose their lies.
Blog about their lies! Hound them about their lies. Challenge them publicly to take a polygraph test. Show these slime less respect that you would show to a pile of dog shit.
Some Republicans Lie More Than Others and Ted Cruz is One of Them!
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