Fact-Checkers or Feelings-Checkers?

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January 30, 2019
Fact-Checkers or Feelings-Checkers?
By Andrew Syrios

Not even Trump’s most ardent supporters make the case that Trump doesn’t have a tendency to exaggerate and make false claims. (Or as he puts it, “truthful hyperbole.”) That being said, the American people have been bombarded with a new, unbridled form of arrogance that has been unleashed in a vain effort to destroy him. Of course, I am referring to the self-anointed “fact-checkers.”

One article from the Huffington Post back during the election drew my attention to this new scourge. It claimed “Donald Trump Made Up Stuff 71 Times In An hour.” Here are a few examples,

    “1. Claim: “[Ted Cruz]’s home state is Texas. It may be Canada.”

    “Reality: Canada is not a state and Ted Cruz, while born there, calls Texas home.”

Fact checking a joke. Good start.

Read more: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/01/factcheckers_or_feelingscheckers.html#ixzz5e5yeQjwg