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To: Alan Smithee who wrote (110312)	5/6/2022 8:14:43 AM
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Don Surber All errors should be reported to DonSurber@gmail.com Thursday, May 05, 2022 PolitiFact finds DeSantis was right, drops fact-check PolitiFact is a Marxist propaganda machine that lives off tax-free donations as if it were the Little Sisters of the Poor or some other worthy charity. My problem with PolitFact is that its propaganda is so blatant -- so obvious -- so phony. They rub their lies in our faces. And yes it lied in 2008 to get Obama elected president. For that it received a Pulitzer. Among other things, PolitiFact vouched for Obama's Big Lie that you could keep your doctor. PolitiFact said that was 100% true. Only after Obama was elected, Obamacare signed into law, and Obama re-elected did PolitiFact admit he lied. It falsely called it the Lie of the Year in 2013. Wrong year. Obama told that lie repeatedly in 2008, not 2013. For 6 years now, PolitiFact has distorted, mangled and twisted Trump's words. This year, PolitiFact has focused like a laser on DeSantis. Someone named Yacob Reyes from the organization messaged Christine Pushaw, the governor's press babysitter, on Monday saying he was fact-checking "on a quick deadline" the governor's statement that almost 60% of student debt is for graduate school. Reyes demanded proof! He sent the message at 4:26 PM, near the close of the business day for office workers. He set a 9 PM deadline. Pushaw responded 40 minutes later. She said his employer, Poynter, was the source of the almost 60% figure. It was actually 56%. Close enough for government work. So the statement was true, right? 9 PM Monday came and went. No post. No post on Tuesday. No post on Wednesday. No post so far today. Based in Florida, PolitiFact frequently fact-checks the governor. It did so at least once when he was a congressman. If you go by its scoreboard, he tells the truth only 3% of the time, while his statements are mostly false or worse 54% of the time. In fact, the only time PolitiFact said he told the truth came on January 21, 2013, when the congressman told Fox that the tax penalty that the government imposes if you don't buy health insurance "is lower than it would have cost to buy insurance." When an organization DEMANDS proof of some statement, once answered, it is obligated to publish that fact-check. PolitiFact refuses to be fair. It is partisan. It is obvious. It is laughably incompetent. I can hardly wait for the Republican Disinformation Czar to shut PolitiFact down. UPDATE: PolitiFact finally posted its fact-check and declared it Mostly False, even though what he said was based on reporting by PolitiFact's parent company. Hilarious. The reporter hunted around until he found a source that had a different number. Rather than saying Poynter lied, PolitiFact pinned it on the governor whose only mistake was believing PolitiFact's parent news organization. Blame the victim. That is the coward's way of journalism.