Fact Wreck: Fact-Checking the Fact-Checkers at First Debate – IOTW Report

Fact Wreck: Fact-Checking the Fact-Checkers at First Debate

Breitbart:

11:00 p.m. EDT: Poor FactCheck.org. Their website crashed during the debate.

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Viewers were left to think for themselves. The HORROR.

10:20 p.m. EDT: Lester Holt bows to the Clinton campaign, and tries to “fact-check” Trump on his support for (or opposition to) the Iraq War.

It happens thus: Holt introduces, matter-of-factly, the premise that Trump supported the Iraq War. Trump pushes back, calling it “mainstream media nonsense.” Trump burns two minutes explaining how he did not support the war, citing Howard Stern and Sean Hannity.

At the end, Holt repeats the allegation again anyway. This is what the Clinton campaign and the mainstream media wanted him to do.

In one gesture, Holt proves everything that conservatives allege about mainstream media moderators, NBC News, and “fact-checking.”

10:07 p.m. EDT: The self-proclaimed fact-checkers join moderator Lester Holt and Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton for a real-time demonstration of how so-called “fact-checking” is really a guise for deliberate political attacks.

Step 1: Moderator asks setup question. In a segment on race relations, Holt asks Trump about the Birther conspiracy theory. He asks no similar questions about Clinton’s record, leaving Trump himself to bring up such Clinton hits as “superpredator.” Trump also notes that the Birther conspiracy theory started in the Clinton campaign.

Step 2: Democrat pounces on setup question. Clinton goes to town on Trump’s Birther past, denying her own. Trump counters, again, with examples of racism from Clinton’s 2008 campaign. But then…

Step 2a: Moderator interrupts Trump’s response. Holt reminds Trump that the segment is about race relations. Just to reinforce the underlying charge of racism.

Step 3: Fact-checker gives Trump a “false.” PolitiFact tweets a link to an article from Sep. 16 claiming that neither Clinton nor her campaign had anything to do with the Birther conspiracy theory. Of course they did, as Clinton’s campaign manager admitted. Trump points that out — and perhaps that is effective, but the point is that the left’s so-called “fact-checking” machine completes the cycle.

To review: Moderator sets up attack, Democrat attacks, fact-checker removes Republican’s defense.

9:58 p.m. EDT: Trump fact-checks Clinton when she claims crime is down in New York, including murder.

Trump is right.

14 Comments on Fact Wreck: Fact-Checking the Fact-Checkers at First Debate

  1. Eff their parlor tricks. The debates won’t matter in the end, as long as Trump can endure the MSM rigging. Looks like Hillary blew her wad last night on Trump smears to gain a Pyrrhic victory.

    Hillary and the MSM have no credibility with voters. Even her partisans know she’s got this rigged. I don’t think this will stop Trump’s momentum. Hillary is the new Teacher’s Pet From Hell.

  2. Who won the debate? A lot of hot air is now being expended on a worthless 90 minute so called debate! Big deal, we have known the Hillary and the Donald for 30+ years. What will we learn in 90 minutes that we don’t already know! We know that she is a snake and has always been one. If fact, if she and BJ Billy were placed in the Garden of Edan with the serpent it would be Hillary trying to get her fellow snake to eat the apple! The Donalds history is also an open book. What is left to decide at this point? Successful businessman Trump or lying, deceitful, greedy, traitorous , murderer Hillary the Asp!

  3. Hillary didn’t win anything. They tried to rig it so she would come out on top, but that failed. Everybody knows she is a lying, corrupt, evil, bitch – even her supporters.

    They tried real hard to trip up Trump. They expected him to lose big, they were wrong.

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