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August 28, 2012

NRO: Politifact Isn't
— Ace

Among its recent calls:

Its recent rulings on Medicare have demonstrated the point thrice over. PolitiFact said that RomneyÂ’s comment that Obama had Â“robbedÂ” Medicare of $716 billion to pay for Obamacare was Â“mostly false.Â” Among its reasons: Â“The money was not robbed in any literal sense of the word.Â” So if Romney led anyone to believe that Obama had held Medicare at gunpoint and ordered it to hand over its wallet, they can now rest easy, because PolitiFact is on the case.

PolitiFact Did, Surprisingly, Note This One as True... "Romney gave away his inheritance."

I hope Romney doesn't overplay this. It's true, but his dad died when Mitt had already made a lot of money, and Mitt began his life with a lot of money and other advantages. It's a good point to make; just don't over-make it into something that can be attacked.

Posted by: Ace at 09:12 AM | Comments (90)
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1 Facts are tricky things, apparently.

Posted by: huerfano at August 28, 2012 09:13 AM (bAGA/)

2 Anyone who believes "Politifacts" is simply a friggin idiot.

Posted by: Vic at August 28, 2012 09:13 AM (YdQQY)

Pilfered, maybe.

Robbed? certainly not.

Posted by: PolitiFact at August 28, 2012 09:14 AM (ixmGa)

Re-Allocated.

We could have lived with that.

Posted by: PolitiFact at August 28, 2012 09:15 AM (ixmGa)

5 Winston Smith, editor.

Posted by: nickless at August 28, 2012 09:15 AM (MMC8r)

or reallocated.

that, too.

Posted by: PolitiFact at August 28, 2012 09:15 AM (ixmGa)

7 PolitiFact said that RomneyÂ’s comment that Obama
had Â“robbedÂ” Medicare of $716 billion to pay for Obamacare was Â“mostly false.Â”

It's painfully obvious that this form of campaigning is just furthering the "n*ggerization" of Obama.

DUH....

Posted by: Touré at August 28, 2012 09:16 AM (UK9cE)

8 Pilfered, maybe.
Robbed? certainly not.
Posted by: PolitiFact at August 28, 2012 01:14 PM

Obliterated?

Posted by: huerfano at August 28, 2012 09:16 AM (bAGA/)

9 We have always been at war with Eastasia.

Posted by: brian at August 28, 2012 09:16 AM (PxOMB)

10 Well duh it's not robbery if I just steal your crap while you're out of the house. Oh wait it still is.

Posted by: Buzzsaw at August 28, 2012 09:16 AM (tf9Ne)

11 Politifucked.

Posted by: Countrysquire at August 28, 2012 09:16 AM (QB3JR)

12 Barack Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable tyrant.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at August 28, 2012 09:17 AM (8y9MW)

13 "Purloined" is acceptable. "Robbery" is a crime, however, and we can't accept major political candidates accusing others of crimes.

Posted by: Politifact at August 28, 2012 09:17 AM (NS2Mo)

14 you try not handing over money the law claims and see if men show up with guns. Politifact must think the law is voluntary and not something enforced.

Posted by: Team Longbow at August 28, 2012 09:17 AM (KHo8t)

15 'The $718 billion is still there, really. Trust us!' So sayeth Politifacts.
Just like all those billions of dollars are in a lock box for Social Security.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 28, 2012 09:17 AM (Z2fb7)

16 Anti-spent.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 28, 2012 09:17 AM (X3lox)

17 That 716 Billion was an attractive nuisance.

Posted by: PolitiFact at August 28, 2012 09:18 AM (ixmGa)

18 Pre-Wasted.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at August 28, 2012 09:19 AM (d0Tfm)

19 Politifact must think the law is voluntary and not something enforced.>>

Well being dems you could understand their confusion on that point couldn't you? I mean it's the way Barky's been doing it.

Posted by: Buzzsaw at August 28, 2012 09:19 AM (tf9Ne)

20 you mean a "fact checking" agency ran by al-Wa-Po's staff is not nonpartisan?

No...

Posted by: sven10077 at August 28, 2012 09:19 AM (LRFds)

21 Obama is in no-way fucking the entire United States of America. He won't even put his penis near 51.5% of the population, & he hasn't put his dick in very many of the rest of them. We rate the phrase "Barack Hussein Obama is fucking America" Liar Liar Pants on Fire.

Posted by: Choom Lord Soetoro at August 28, 2012 09:20 AM (m+u3O)

22 Lock. Box.

Posted by: Al Gore at August 28, 2012 09:20 AM (bAGA/)

23 "Robbery" just isn't accurate at all. However, Harry Reid has a point about those tax returns.

Posted by: Politifact at August 28, 2012 09:20 AM (NS2Mo)

24 The Preezy held Medicare at METAPHORICAL gunpoint. It's like actual gunpoint, but less blood and more fear urine.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO Supporter [/i][/u][/b] at August 28, 2012 09:20 AM (4df7R)

25 <a href=http://tinyurl.com/9ynw4dn>I beat up on Politifact</a> last week or so. They're just... bad and hackish.

Posted by: Matt S. at August 28, 2012 09:20 AM (moRRg)

26 I agree with the poster above. That is a racist word. Everyone associates robbery with blacks. You don't have to say it.

Posted by: Chrissy Matthews at August 28, 2012 09:21 AM (1qHOu)

27 Politifact: "The economy is not in a recession. It's just in a brief period of negative suckage".

Posted by: Tex Lovera at August 28, 2012 09:21 AM (wtvvX)

28 ~wiping spittle off chin~

Posted by: Chrissy Matthews at August 28, 2012 09:21 AM (1qHOu)

29 Apparently, HTML is bad. Previous link.

Posted by: Matt S. at August 28, 2012 09:21 AM (moRRg)

30 Poshitifact to the rescue! Obama's rescue, that is.

Posted by: soothsayer at August 28, 2012 09:22 AM (9Q7Nu)

31 "Purloined" is acceptable. "Robbery" is a crime, however, and we can't accept major ~~political~~ Republican candidates accusing others of crimes.

Posted by: Politifact at August 28, 2012 01:17 PM (NS2Mo)

Corrected for accuracy.

Posted by: © Sponge at August 28, 2012 09:22 AM (UK9cE)

32 What money?

Posted by: Jon Corizine at August 28, 2012 09:22 AM (aZcPb)

33 Chump change. When are we going to start talking about real money?

Posted by: Ben Bernanke at August 28, 2012 09:22 AM (zrO2Q)

34 Posted by: Chrissy Matthews at August 28, 2012 01:21 PM (1qHOu)

That wasn't spittle.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at August 28, 2012 09:22 AM (8y9MW)

Politifacts. The name says it all. Like when you see a country named "The People's Democratic Republic of (whatever)" you can be pretty sure it is not one of those things.

Same with "Politi-facts".

Posted by: Mikey NTH putting on the old hubris and stepping out at August 28, 2012 09:23 AM (hLRSq)

36 The worst part is the way these fact checkers are used to keep the lies rolling by news talkers. Somebody on our side points out the lie and news talker replies with "well this was fact checked and found not to be a lie"

Posted by: Buzzsaw at August 28, 2012 09:24 AM (tf9Ne)

37 The funds were liberated.

Posted by: General Woundwort at August 28, 2012 09:24 AM (06lNq)

Apparently, HTML is bad. Previous link.

Actually, HTML works well, just not here.

Here we have a new markup language called AceTML. Teh Ewok wants MicroSoft to buy him out, apparently.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at August 28, 2012 09:24 AM (d0Tfm)

39 [a href=http://tinyurl.com/9ynw4dn]I beat up on Politifact[/a] last week or so. They're just... bad and hackish.

Posted by: © Sponge at August 28, 2012 09:24 AM (UK9cE)

It kind of depends on what the meqaning of "facts" is.

BTW, are there any of these so-called political fact sites that have not been politicized or completely co-opted in a left leaning direction?

Posted by: RM at August 28, 2012 09:24 AM (TRsME)

41 Nope....doesn't work.

Posted by: © Sponge at August 28, 2012 09:24 AM (UK9cE)

42 FACT CHECK!

You write, "Among its recent calls," but the fact-check article you refer to was published on Aug. 15, THIRTEEN DAYS AGO! That's almost TWO WEEKS! That's not really "recent."

Therefore, we are awarding this blog post 15 Pinocchios, a huge Pantsuit-On-Fire, and we are labeling it MOSTLY FALSE.

Posted by: Democratic Party, er, Politi-fact at August 28, 2012 09:25 AM (+QKfp)

43 He literally stole it. And he was wearing a hoodie.

Posted by: Cricket at August 28, 2012 09:26 AM (DrC22)

44 Posted by: Â© Sponge at August 28, 2012 01:24 PM (UK9cE)

Drop it in the URL box of the posting box if you want it all clicky. Otherwise, copy-and-paste is all we get.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at August 28, 2012 09:26 AM (8y9MW)

45 We are also not robbing our children literally.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at August 28, 2012 09:26 AM (B+qrE)

46 $716 billion? I got it all right here, guys.

Posted by: Kate Upton at August 28, 2012 09:27 AM (zrO2Q)

47 Somebody on our side points out the lie and news talker replies with "well this was fact checked and found not to be a lie"

Posted by: Buzzsaw at August 28, 2012 01:24 PM (tf9Ne)

The whole "fact-checking" concept in publishing never had any meaning, at all. They trust the most untrustworthy, overtly conflicted sacks of shit on Earth and call that "fact-checking". It's beyond a joke.

Brazen Bulls for the lot of them. Just because.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 28, 2012 09:28 AM (X3lox)

48 So if Romney led anyone to believe that Obama had held Medicare at gunpoint and ordered it to hand over its wallet, they can now rest easy,

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Yeah, Obama didn't do that. Obama's got people with guns to do that.

Posted by: WalrusRex at August 28, 2012 09:28 AM (Hx5uv)

49 Siphoned? Raided? Misappropriated? What word, oh Gatekeeper of Truth, would be acceptable?

Posted by: no good deed at August 28, 2012 09:28 AM (mjR67)

50 TS Isaac? Cat-5, heading straight to Tampa.

Posted by: Politifact Weather Bureau at August 28, 2012 09:28 AM (FcR7P)

51
Drop it in the URL box of the posting box if you want it all clicky. Otherwise, copy-and-paste is all we get.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at August 28, 2012 01:26 PM (8y9MW)

I know. I was just experimenting. I've never tried anything other than the font changes via HTML in here since "the great HTML war of 2012" and wondered if it was a [ vs < thing......so I plagiarized his previous comment and modified it.

Posted by: © Sponge at August 28, 2012 09:28 AM (UK9cE)

52 We rate Mitt Romney's claim that Seamus was safe in a crate on top of his car "mostly false." the vehicle was clearly a station wagon, which is different from a car.

Posted by: Politifarce at August 28, 2012 09:29 AM (htu8n)

53 It's a good point to make; just don't over-make it into something that can be attacked.

Posted by: Ace at 01:12 PM The fact that Mitt flosses his teeth daily is enough for some to attack. They're just that deranged.

Posted by: Ms Choksondik extremely extreme radical extremist at August 28, 2012 09:29 AM (YOZSv)

54 Ace: I hope Romney doesn't overplay this. [...] It's a good point to make; just don't over-make it into something that can be attacked. the Akin fiasco has a lot of people shell-shocked, evidently

Posted by: soothsayer at August 28, 2012 09:30 AM (9Q7Nu)

They don't enforce laws with ginpoints? What were all those bullets for at the Social Security Office?

Posted by: Up with people! at August 28, 2012 09:30 AM (kzFo5)

56 Desparately parse words we much...

Posted by: Politifact at August 28, 2012 09:30 AM (v+QvA)

57 And who with more than two brain cells to rub together would trust any organization that thinks that counting in "pinnochios" has any meaning or relevance to the story of the fabled liar and measuring his lies? It was the length of his nose, you fetid fart-stains.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 28, 2012 09:30 AM (X3lox)

58 oh BTW, Anne Romney is going to hand the election to her husband today

put that in your pipe and smoke it.........

dude on TV earlier today said Hussein is on the 'knife edge' with his fake-likeablity. Heh. The Black Version of The Razor's Edge

edges are racist

Posted by: Bob in Baltimore at August 28, 2012 09:30 AM (Dll6b)

59 Siphoned? Raided? Misappropriated? What word, oh Gatekeeper of Truth, would be acceptable?

Posted by: no good deed at August 28, 2012 01:28 PM (mjR67)

--------------------------------------

Think of it as a tribute.

Posted by: Zuul at August 28, 2012 09:31 AM (zrO2Q)

60 Thus we have spoken

Posted by: PolitiFart at August 28, 2012 09:31 AM (8g9qq)

61 @4 I claim this womb of Kate Upton for Me.

Posted by: Hanoverfist at August 28, 2012 09:31 AM (LP7M9)

62 Hey Politifact, when did you stop banging 8 year old boys?

Posted by: Ms Choksondik, extremely extreme radical extremist at August 28, 2012 09:31 AM (YOZSv)

63 They don't enforce laws with ginpoints? What were all those bullets for at the Social Security Office?
Posted by: Up with people! at August 28, 2012 01:30 PM (kzFo5)

Is that like doing a shot, or something?

Posted by: © Sponge at August 28, 2012 09:31 AM (UK9cE)

Well, since Barack Obama is only half black, I guess all those accusations of racism against the right are false.

Posted by: Heralder at August 28, 2012 09:32 AM (+xmn4)

65
dude on TV earlier today said Hussein is on the 'knife edge' with his fake-likeablity. Heh. The Black Version of The Razor's Edge

edges are racist

Posted by: Bob in Baltimore at August 28, 2012 01:30 PM (Dll6b)

We'd really appreciate it if you wouldn't use us in your silly American political battles.

Posted by: AC/DC at August 28, 2012 09:32 AM (UK9cE)

66 58
They don't enforce laws with ginpoints? What were all those bullets for at the Social Security Office?

Posted by: Up with people! at August 28, 2012 01:30 PM (kzFo5)

Tell me more about these ginpoints. I should have a lot of them racked up.

Posted by: Ted Kennedy, Satan's handmaiden at August 28, 2012 09:33 AM (YOZSv)

67 Absconded with is also acceptable.

Posted by: Truck Monkey at August 28, 2012 09:33 AM (jucos)

68 The Republicans claim that Obama said, "you didn't build that." President Obama said that he didn't say that, so we rate the Republican claim as "mostly false."

Posted by: Politifarce at August 28, 2012 09:34 AM (GwyfB)

69 CNN uses their 'news analysis' of Romney to run Dem anti-Romney TV ads

I'm stunned; amazed; dumbfounded; crestfallen

Posted by: Bob in Baltimore at August 28, 2012 09:34 AM (Dll6b)

70 I claim this womb of Kate Upton for Me. Your nobility. I sees it.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD/Whiteboard 2012 at August 28, 2012 09:35 AM (VtjlW)

71 OT: Â“During the briefing, the President directed Administrator Fugate to make sure FEMA continues to coordinate closely with state and local officials in potentially impacted states and address the needs of local communities as the storm approaches,Â” In other words, Obama said, "go do whatever you do. I've got a tee-time"

Posted by: t-bird at August 28, 2012 09:35 AM (FcR7P)

72 Oh! speaking of pinnochios, did you hear about Boston Globe's Joan Vernocchi? (Or, as Howie Carr now calls her, Joan Vinnochio.) Joan Vernocchiohoweverthefuckyouspellit is a moonbat columnist for the Globe. She is currently (and very quietly) under suspension for plagiarism. Joan lifted quotes from a article about, get this, Joe Biden's plagiarism.

Posted by: soothsayer at August 28, 2012 09:35 AM (9Q7Nu)

73 Luap Nor just entered the convention. We're saved!

Posted by: Soona at August 28, 2012 09:35 AM (zrO2Q)

74 Well, since Barack Obama is only half black, I guess all those accusations of racism against the right are false. Less than half, so mostly false.

Posted by: t-bird at August 28, 2012 09:36 AM (FcR7P)

75 Politifact reasons like Vizzini.

Posted by: grognard at August 28, 2012 09:36 AM (NS2Mo)

76 new post up

Posted by: Vic at August 28, 2012 09:36 AM (YdQQY)

77 Somerset Maugham, not some unHeavy Metal band, dude.

Tyrone Power; the 1940s; the incredible bad Bill Murray re-make

Posted by: Bob in Baltimore at August 28, 2012 09:36 AM (Dll6b)

78 Posted by: AC/DC at August 28, 2012 01:32 PM (UK9cE)

Excuse me.

Posted by: W. Somerset Maugham at August 28, 2012 09:36 AM (mjR67)

79 I read something earlier that Jindal was asking for a Disaster Area declaration from the president and he responded with a State of Emergency.

Methinks he doesn't know the difference between the 2 and just blurted something out.

Posted by: © Sponge at August 28, 2012 09:36 AM (UK9cE)

80
Joan lifted quotes from a article about, get this, Joe Biden's plagiarism.
Posted by: soothsayer at August 28, 2012 01:35 PM (9Q7Nu)

LOL. "Hide in plain sight" ...

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 28, 2012 09:37 AM (X3lox)

81 Hey, that 716 billion tramp had it coming. You ever see the size of her Benjamins? And that skirt cut right up to Geithner's signature? Bitch was just asking to be appropriated.

Posted by: Baby Face Barky at August 28, 2012 09:38 AM (zF6Iw)

82 mulcted

Posted by: 66chevelle at August 28, 2012 09:39 AM (QjSgY)

83 "Romney gave away his inheritance."

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Well, Obama gave away our birthright for a bowl of porridge so he should get some credit, too.

Posted by: WalrusRex at August 28, 2012 09:55 AM (Hx5uv)

84 Get your facts straight Ace ... Mitt did not start life with alot of money and privilege ... he grew up middle class until his early teens ...

Posted by: JeffC at August 28, 2012 09:55 AM (IOfsQ)

85 And Obama was NOT bowing.... the Saudi had lost his contact.... really.... yeah..... thats the ticket....

Posted by: Politifact Spokesperson at August 28, 2012 10:16 AM (lZBBB)

and uh.... the Japenese guy?? Yeah.... Obama was not bowing, he was... uh.... just trying to look the guy in the eye as the Japanese guy was short.... yeah....

And Farrah Fawcett.... whom bowed to me...

Posted by: Politifact Spokesperson at August 28, 2012 10:18 AM (lZBBB)

Have to agree with #88. Romney was no Kennedy or even Bush. Romney's father was self made and Romney was there to be able to see what it took to do the same.

Ace's statement though confirmed that the democrat's meme was successful.

Posted by: polynikes at August 28, 2012 10:41 AM (m2CN7)

88 So here's the choice: A rich man who takes his father's inheritance and builds a school of public management with it as a tribute to said father's career, legacy and name. And an over-educated man who refuses to attend his mother's funeral. Did I get that right?

Posted by: Chipperoo at August 28, 2012 11:01 AM (+zT44)

89 Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable failure.

Posted by: steevy at August 28, 2012 11:58 AM (6o4Fb)

90 How the fuck can this be overplayed? The fact that he had his own money by the time his dad died, doesn't make it any less charitable that he gave away his inheritance... good grief, we have to quit apologizing for our virtues...

Posted by: fabrexe at August 28, 2012 01:18 PM (wyQqb)

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