Right But Misleading'? Mollie Hemingway Smacks the Pseudo-'Fact Checkers'
By Tim Graham | January 11, 2019 11:55 AM EST
Before the analysis ends on the first Trump prime-time Oval Office address, we must recommend Mollie Hemingway's Federalist smackdown of pseudo-"fact checks" attempting to discredit Trump's speech text. She found most of the "fact checks†were instead "critiques of opinions." Many journalists critiqued things not included in Trump’s speech, and sometimes “fact checkers†admonished the president for saying completely true things.
For example, Hemingway cited Washington Post checker Salvador Rizzo "right but misleading" verdict on the number of illegal aliens arrested. They don't like "illegal entry" being counted as a crime. "So the numbers add up, but they’re misleading. The total covers all types of offenses, including illegal entry or reentry. ICE does not break down arrests by type of crime, but 16 percent of the total charges and convictions (not arrests) in 2016 were strictly immigration offenses."
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https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/tim-graham/2019/01/11/mollie-not-coddling-pseudo-fact-checkers
