Deacfreak07
Ain't played nobody, PAWL!
Bone spurs...not bunions...still just an owie...
Also, he probably didn’t actually have bone spurs.
Bone spurs...not bunions...still just an owie...
Also, he probably didn’t actually have bone spurs.
Trump’s willingness to constantly repeat false claims has posed a unique challenge to fact-checkers. Most politicians quickly drop a Four-Pinocchio claim, either out of a duty to be accurate or concern that spreading false information could be politically damaging.
Not Trump. The president keeps going long after the facts are clear, in what appears to be a deliberate effort to replace the truth with his own, far more favorable, version of it. He is not merely making gaffes or misstating things, he is purposely injecting false information into the national conversation.
To accurately reflect this phenomenon, The Washington Post Fact Checker is introducing a new category — the Bottomless Pinocchio. That dubious distinction will be awarded to politicians who repeat a false claim so many times that they are, in effect, engaging in campaigns of disinformation.
The bar for the Bottomless Pinocchio is high: The claims must have received three or four Pinocchios from The Fact Checker, and they must have been repeated at least 20 times. Twenty is a sufficiently robust number that there can be no question the politician is aware that his or her facts are wrong. The list of Bottomless Pinocchios will be maintained on its own landing page.
The Fact Checker has not identified statements from any other current elected official who meets the standard other than Trump. In fact, 14 statements made by the president immediately qualify for the list.
Ugh. Maybe instead of extending the reference to a creepy 80-year old children’s movie, they should just call a “false claim repeated over and over again” what it actually is, a lie. In fact change the whole rating system to 100% true, mostly true, misleading, mostly false, 100% false, and lie. I think their readers will be able to figure it out without the pictures.
What number is "Donald Trump wouldn't lie because he cares about people like me?"
So, the president of the United States and leader of the Republican party spews bottomless pinocchio rated nonsense once daily. That's hardly even enough time for one false claim to settle in before another is introduced.
What number is "Donald Trump wouldn't lie because he cares about people like me?"
What number is "Donald Trump wouldn't lie because he cares about people like me?"
This 1 is no longer working on now former GM employees in OH & MI.