Republicans' claims are far more likely than Democrats' to be rated false by the fact-checking site PolitiFact, according to a study released Tuesday.

Since January, PolitiFact has rated 52 percent of Republicans' statements as mostly or entirely false, compared to just 24 percent of Democrats' statements, the study found. In the first three weeks of May, amid controversies over the attacks in Benghazi, Libya and investigations at the Internal Revenue Service and the Department Of Justice, 60 percent of Republicans' statements were rated as false, compared to 29 percent of those made by Democrats.

George Mason University's Center for Media and Public Affairs, which conducted the study, looked at 100 claims, 46 made by Democrats and 54 by Republicans.

Rep. Michele Bachmann's (R-Minn.) claim that the IRS runs a "huge national database" of personal details, for instance, got a "pants on fire" rating.

“While Republicans see a credibility gap in the Obama administration, PolitiFact rates Republicans as the less credible party,” George Mason University CMPA president Robert Lichter wrote in a release with the Tuesday report.

The center released similar findings last year when it compared the Obama and Romney campaigns, giving Obama higher marks on truthfulness.

The study is far from a scientific referendum on partisan honesty -- as PolitiFact's editor Bill Adair noted, the statements it chooses to check aren't a representative sample of what either party is saying.

Adair wrote in an email to Poynter's Andrew Beaujon that statements are selected on the basis of news judgment.

"PolitiFact rates the factual accuracy of specific claims; we do not seek to measure which party tells more falsehoods," he told Beaujon. “The authors of this press release seem to have counted up a small number of our Truth-O-Meter ratings over a few months, and then drew their own conclusions.”

PolitiFact itself is no stranger to controversy, often from both sides of the aisle. The site annually causes chagrin with its "Lie of the Year" award. It gave that designation to Mitt Romney's Jeep ad in 2012, and to the claim that Republicans voted to end Medicare in 2011, earning an "avalanche of criticism" for the latter.
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BeelowMe Wrote:
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> with its "Lie of the Year"
> award. It gave that designation to Mitt Romney's
> Jeep ad in 2012,

You mean the ad that ended up being true?

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/01/17/uk-fiat-marchionne-china-idUKBRE90G0O620130117

Sorry, if I don't think too highly of Politifact. They twist words as much if not more than politicians. I forget which politician it was about, but one time I saw them rate a politician's statement as half true because it didn't fit the narrative of their editorial board. Not a single word that pol said was untrue. In fact, it was 100% accurate but politifact rated it half true anyway. I don't even remember if the pol was a D or R, but I was pretty much done with them after that.

they blow Wrote:
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> BeelowMe Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > with its "Lie of the Year"
> > award. It gave that designation to Mitt
> Romney's
> > Jeep ad in 2012,
>
> You mean the ad that ended up being true?
>
> http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/01/17/uk-fiat-m
> archionne-china-idUKBRE90G0O620130117
>
> Sorry, if I don't think too highly of Politifact.
> They twist words as much if not more than
> politicians. I forget which politician it was
> about, but one time I saw them rate a politician's
> statement as half true because it didn't fit the
> narrative of their editorial board. Not a single
> word that pol said was untrue. In fact, it was
> 100% accurate but politifact rated it half true
> anyway. I don't even remember if the pol was a D
> or R, but I was pretty much done with them after
> that.


Well, that's as clear as mud.

Shockerz.

Nothing new. Various groups have noted Politifact's selection bias many times:

Selection Bias? PolitiFact Rates Republican Statements as False at 3 Times the Rate of Democrats

http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cspg/smartpolitics/2011/02/selection_bias_politifact_rate.php


In addition to having a more liberal bias to begin with:

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On January 1, 2012, the St. Petersburg Times was renamed the Tampa Bay Times; this stemmed from a 2006 decision of a lawsuit with Media General, the publishers of The Tampa Tribune, which allowed that paper to keep its exclusive right to use the name of its defunct sister paper, The Tampa Times, for five years after the decision.

As the newly rechristened Tampa Bay Times, the paper's weekday tabloid tbt*, a free daily publication trending progressive liberal and which used "(* Tampa Bay Times)" as its subtitle, became just tbt when the name change took place.[5] The St. Pete Times name was repurposed as a new name for the Times' neighborhood news sections in southern Pinellas County (formerly Neighborhood Times), serving communities from Largo southward.

Way to go GMU, doing a study to report that a site with a liberal bias treats liberals more favorably. Really ground breaking stuff.

This is the crap that gets passed off as academia now a days and we think everyone should go to college?

A real academic study would have looked at the fact check sights and graded their fact checking now just parrot what they say. 5 minutes on their website would have told you they only criticize liberals enough to be able to claim to be unbiased but most people see right through it.

When your lie of the year is actually true even the most uninterested person can see the bias. Theyre nothing more than another way to try and indoctrinate people

All colleges and college students and college professors are liberals.

It's a fact.

Liberal Logic 65 Wrote:
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> Way to go GMU, doing a study to report that a site
> with a liberal bias treats liberals more
> favorably. Really ground breaking stuff.
>
> This is the crap that gets passed off as academia
> now a days and we think everyone should go to
> college?
>
> A real academic study would have looked at the
> fact check sights and graded their fact checking
> now just parrot what they say. 5 minutes on their
> website would have told you they only criticize
> liberals enough to be able to claim to be unbiased
> but most people see right through it.
>
> When your lie of the year is actually true even
> the most uninterested person can see the bias.
> Theyre nothing more than another way to try and
> indoctrinate people


Lie of the year? Did you check your facts before stating such hyperbole bs?

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> Lie of the year? Did you check your facts before
> stating such hyperbole bs?


Can you not read? Romney was right about Jeeps which they gave the lie of the year to last year.

Im sorry if you need everything to be spoon fed to you by a website, facts are facts and politifact is consistently wrong with what they calls lies and has openly supported claims by Obama proven to be lies.

Gee, a bunch of liberals in a liberal program at a liberal college finds that a liberal site that supports liberals is good. What's not to like?

Next, we'll find that the US AG has found no wrongdoing by Eric Holder, the US AG.

Liberal Logic 42 Wrote:
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> Priapus Wrote:
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>
> > Lie of the year? Did you check your facts
> before
> > stating such hyperbole bs?
>
>
> Can you not read? Romney was right about Jeeps
> which they gave the lie of the year to last year.
>
>
> Im sorry if you need everything to be spoon fed to
> you by a website, facts are facts and politifact
> is consistently wrong with what they calls lies
> and has openly supported claims by Obama proven to
> be lies.


He has a small dick. That's why he worships the me, the god of lust and guys with small dicks. He doesn't have time to actually read the articles, as his mind is devote 99.9% of the time to his penis enlargement schemes. I make beaucoup dollars off this chump.

Gee, now that we know for a fact that the IRS was up to no good targeting people based on their political beliefs, it looks a little stupid for "Politifact" to call Bachmann out on this claim doesn't it? You'd have to have been either living in a cave the past couple of months, or a complete imbecile, to defend the IRS's neutrality these days.

And oh-by-the-way the "Data Services Hub" that Bachmann was talking about is a reality, not some right wing fantasy. Exactly how much information the IRS will be exchanging with the hub is TBD, but using this as an example of "Republican lies" is pretty dumb.

GMU students are just mad because obama promised free college and a corner office job with a window when they graduated.

Its true that I drive a prius and always have. I own a fleet of smart cars. I drive them one at a time for a week and charge the rest whether they need it or not. Its the same principle as printing out multiple pages of something for every page that gets put in a recycle bin. Whhhhhhheeeeee what fun.

Much of the staff and proffs at GMU are raging liberals. Much of the student body of GMU are Conservatives from the surrounding Virginia countryside. Fact.

liberal logic 42 Wrote:
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> Its true that I drive a prius and always have. I
> own a fleet of smart cars. I drive them one at a
> time for a week and charge the rest whether they
> need it or not. Its the same principle as
> printing out multiple pages of something for every
> page that gets put in a recycle bin.
> Whhhhhhheeeeee what fun.


Take your meds ferfux theyre for your own good.

No matter how much you troll or how much stupid shit you say politifact is going to get torn to shit in this thread now that people are actually going back and seeing all the bullshit they wrote and its blatantly obvious they were just actively campaigning for an Obama win.

liberal logic 42 Wrote:
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> Much of the staff and proffs at GMU are raging
> liberals. Much of the student body of GMU are
> Conservatives from the surrounding Virginia
> countryside. Fact.

You were actually half right. The professors are overwhelming liberal, the student body however is pretty liberal as well as they pride themselves on diversity for the sake of diversity instead of picking the best candidates to attend. Centers for media and public affairs is where dumb students end up who cant cut it in other majors or ultra liberals.

However ferfux, you could be a gay transgendered muslim asian from an interracial couple with two dads and still not get in there even with all the diversity points you would be awarded

George Mason is full of poorly educated, overentitled, overintoxicated, school spirit driven losers.

Mason Nation indeed (puke).

big yawn Wrote:
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> George Mason is full of poorly educated,
> overentitled, overintoxicated, school spirit
> driven losers.
>
> Mason Nation indeed (puke).


Somebody flunked out of GMU, methinks.

It is funny to hear the claims that GMU is a liberal university. For years it has been the darling of Republicans in Richmond. One reason is that it hosts several conservative think tanks such as the Mercatus Center. Check out who has been on the board: http://www.nndb.com/org/264/000053105/

The Koch brothers have given some $30 million to GMU. The money goes to members of the law school and the economics department, which pride themselves on being conservative.

what? Wrote:
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> It is funny to hear the claims that GMU is a
> liberal university. For years it has been the
> darling of Republicans in Richmond. One reason is
> that it hosts several conservative think tanks
> such as the Mercatus Center. Check out who has
> been on the board:
> http://www.nndb.com/org/264/000053105/
>
> The Koch brothers have given some $30 million to
> GMU. The money goes to members of the law school
> and the economics department, which pride
> themselves on being conservative.


Libtard.

I am a gay transgendered muslim asian from an interracial couple with two dads and I got into Harvard. Still paying off the student loans even.

what? Wrote:
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> It is funny to hear the claims that GMU is a
> liberal university. For years it has been the
> darling of Republicans in Richmond. One reason is
> that it hosts several conservative think tanks
> such as the Mercatus Center. Check out who has
> been on the board:
> http://www.nndb.com/org/264/000053105/
>
> The Koch brothers have given some $30 million to
> GMU. The money goes to members of the law school
> and the economics department, which pride
> themselves on being conservative


Can you tell me how the law school and economics department are connected to this study or the liberal social science departments at GMU?

It's just that Republicans know their audience. Mostly uneducated, uncurious, and easily misled.

The best example is when the life-long Republican Governor Mark Sanford of South Carolina ran off to South America with his mistress. In their coverage, Fox News put "D-SC" after Sanford's name. Now ten of millions of Fox followers think that Sanford was a Democrat. Nothing or nobody could now convince the idiots otherwise.

gop Wrote:
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> It's just that Republicans know their audience.
> Mostly uneducated, uncurious, and easily misled.
>
> The best example is when the life-long Republican
> Governor Mark Sanford of South Carolina ran off to
> South America with his mistress. In their
> coverage, Fox News put "D-SC" after Sanford's
> name. Now ten of millions of Fox followers think
> that Sanford was a Democrat. Nothing or nobody
> could now convince the idiots otherwise.

Yep youre right again ferfux, they all think hes a Dem which is why the reelected him to the Republican seat.

Idiot

Liberal Logic 16 Wrote:
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> what? Wrote:
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> > It is funny to hear the claims that GMU is a
> > liberal university. For years it has been the
> > darling of Republicans in Richmond. One reason
> is
> > that it hosts several conservative think tanks
> > such as the Mercatus Center. Check out who has
> > been on the board:
> > http://www.nndb.com/org/264/000053105/
> >
> > The Koch brothers have given some $30 million
> to
> > GMU. The money goes to members of the law
> school
> > and the economics department, which pride
> > themselves on being conservative
>
>
> Can you tell me how the law school and economics
> department are connected to this study or the
> liberal social science departments at GMU?

They aren't but I wont let fact checkers get in the way of my arguments.

Liberal Logic 16 Wrote:
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> gop Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > It's just that Republicans know their audience.
>
> > Mostly uneducated, uncurious, and easily
> misled.
> >
> > The best example is when the life-long
> Republican
> > Governor Mark Sanford of South Carolina ran off
> to
> > South America with his mistress. In their
> > coverage, Fox News put "D-SC" after Sanford's
> > name. Now ten of millions of Fox followers
> think
> > that Sanford was a Democrat. Nothing or nobody
> > could now convince the idiots otherwise.
>
> Yep youre right again ferfux, they all think hes a
> Dem which is why the reelected him to the
> Republican seat.
>
> Idiot

Dittohead, have you ever been to South Carolina?

I rest my case.

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> Dittohead, have you ever been to South Carolina?
>
>
> I rest my case.


Yes, apparently you havent though if you think its now some democrat strong hold which even if it were the case wouldnt explain why they voted for the guy with an R in front of his name.

Ill give you a hint you were think of NC that went blue in 08.

Just admit you tried to take a shot at Fox failed miserably and are now just digging a whole and it can be done with

Liberal Logic 16 Wrote:
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> gop Wrote:
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>
> > Dittohead, have you ever been to South Carolina?
>
> >
> >
> > I rest my case.


So you believed Fox when they said that labeling Sanford a Democrat was just a little mistake?



>
>
> Yes, apparently you havent though if you think its
> now some democrat strong hold which even if it
> were the case wouldnt explain why they voted for
> the guy with an R in front of his name.
>
> Ill give you a hint you were think of NC that went
> blue in 08.
>
> Just admit you tried to take a shot at Fox failed
> miserably and are now just digging a whole and it
> can be done with

Liberal Logic 16 Wrote:
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> what? Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > It is funny to hear the claims that GMU is a
> > liberal university. For years it has been the
> > darling of Republicans in Richmond. One reason
> is
> > that it hosts several conservative think tanks
> > such as the Mercatus Center. Check out who has
> > been on the board:
> > http://www.nndb.com/org/264/000053105/
> >
> > The Koch brothers have given some $30 million
> to
> > GMU. The money goes to members of the law
> school
> > and the economics department, which pride
> > themselves on being conservative
>
>
> Can you tell me how the law school and economics
> department are connected to this study or the
> liberal social science departments at GMU?

Try reading the posts in this thread and you might understand the relevance:

Quote

All colleges and college students and college professors are liberals.

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Gee, a bunch of liberals in a liberal program at a liberal college finds that a liberal site that supports liberals is good.

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Much of the staff and proffs at GMU are raging liberals.

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The professors are overwhelming liberal, the student body however is pretty liberal as well as they pride themselves on diversity for the sake of diversity instead of picking the best candidates to attend.

You and your sock puppets made the references to GMU.

Hey it was just a miss understanding, just ask barak and eric!
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they blow Wrote:
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> BeelowMe Wrote:
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> > with its "Lie of the Year"
> > award. It gave that designation to Mitt
> Romney's
> > Jeep ad in 2012,
>
> You mean the ad that ended up being true?
>
> http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/01/17/uk-fiat-m
> archionne-china-idUKBRE90G0O620130117
>
> Sorry, if I don't think too highly of Politifact.
> They twist words as much if not more than
> politicians. I forget which politician it was
> about, but one time I saw them rate a politician's
> statement as half true because it didn't fit the
> narrative of their editorial board. Not a single
> word that pol said was untrue. In fact, it was
> 100% accurate but politifact rated it half true
> anyway. I don't even remember if the pol was a D
> or R, but I was pretty much done with them after
> that.


Jesus christ, still with this horseshit. Hey asshole, the ad claimed Jeep was MOVING jobs to china, which is inaccurate. Almost ever car company has been building cars in the locations where they expect many of those cars to be bought, whether it is Jeep, Honda, or GM. Honda being the number one employer of car companies

IN THE US

You dumb fuck

Whatever, love the fox bubble you dumb shit. Be amazed when Fox Polls show your next turd burger being a huge hit, and then blame all those illegals for when he loses.

what? Wrote:
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> Try reading the posts in this thread and you might
> understand the relevance:
>
>

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All colleges and college students and
> college professors are liberals.

>
>

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Gee, a bunch of liberals in a liberal
> program at a liberal college finds that a liberal
> site that supports liberals is good.

>
>

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Much of the staff and proffs at GMU are
> raging liberals.

>
>

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The professors are overwhelming liberal,
> the student body however is pretty liberal as well
> as they pride themselves on diversity for the sake
> of diversity instead of picking the best
> candidates to attend.

>
> You and your sock puppets made the references to
> GMU.

I see comprehension isnt your strong suit. So two departments that lean conservative make a school that has over 100 departments conservative, got it

gop Wrote:
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> So you believed Fox when they said that labeling
> Sanford a Democrat was just a little mistake?


No your right its a huge conspiracy to get him elected having a graphic say D instead of R in a state where being a D is a disadvantage at the polls. Youre entering ferfux territory with this pathetic attempt to discredit Fox

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> Jesus christ, still with this horseshit. Hey
> asshole, the ad claimed Jeep was MOVING jobs to
> china, which is inaccurate.

They did move operations to China and are now building cars there dumbass. I know youre scared people wont blindly follow the bullshit politifact pretends is nonpartisan.

Even if what you stated is true they gave it the lie of the year meaning it was supposed to be some huge lie that had no merit of truth. Even your version of it doesnt remotely come close to spitting distance of lie of the year. Theyre partisan hacks facts are facts

Liberal Logic 05 Wrote:
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> Holy shit bags Wrote:
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>
> > Jesus christ, still with this horseshit. Hey
> > asshole, the ad claimed Jeep was MOVING jobs to
> > china, which is inaccurate.
>
> They did move operations to China and are now
> building cars there dumbass. I know youre scared
> people wont blindly follow the bullshit politifact
> pretends is nonpartisan.
>
> Even if what you stated is true they gave it the
> lie of the year meaning it was supposed to be some
> huge lie that had no merit of truth. Even your
> version of it doesnt remotely come close to
> spitting distance of lie of the year. Theyre
> partisan hacks facts are facts


They didnt reduce a single fucking position in the US. The job they "MOVED" to China was for a new plant they wanted their to MEET CHINESE DEMAND

YOU DUMB FUCKING CUNT

There isnt a single Jeep vehicle imported from China to the US market for sale you dumb fuck. The reason is because freight cost to move across the pacific makes it irrational to do so, so they build the amount they need in the country it serves.

Dumb faggot

Either way, they didnt MOVE a single position. They were NEW jobs.

Liberal Logic 05 Wrote:
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> Holy shit bags Wrote:
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> -----
>
> > Jesus christ, still with this horseshit. Hey
> > asshole, the ad claimed Jeep was MOVING jobs to
> > china, which is inaccurate.
>
> They did move operations to China and are now
> building cars there dumbass. I know youre scared
> people wont blindly follow the bullshit politifact
> pretends is nonpartisan.
>
> Even if what you stated is true they gave it the
> lie of the year meaning it was supposed to be some
> huge lie that had no merit of truth. Even your
> version of it doesnt remotely come close to
> spitting distance of lie of the year. Theyre
> partisan hacks facts are facts


PS I could give a flying fuck what you think is a partisan hack or not. I'm sure you enjoy the shit out of faux news and their Michelle Bachmann and Sarah Palin blowjob fest so fuck you.

Either way, Romney purposefully lied, and he got caught by the very people he was trying to impress, Ohioans

Sucks to be Romney, sucks to be the people who gave a shit load of money to his campaign, and it

SUCKS TO BE YOU BECAUSE YOU CAN"T FUCKING GET YOUR HEAD OUT OF YOUR ASS AND GET OVER IT YOU DOUCHE

But by all means, create 45 threads in the off topic and fairfax forums talking about how Obummerz is the worst evers, wah wah wah wah wah

fucker

Politifact called it the lie of they year post-election, because it was the most impactful commercial of the campaign. That ad single-handedly won obama Ohio, and

THAT

is why they called it the lie of the year.

For what it meant, not for being the "worst" lie of the year, which I assure you belongs to the dumb ass hag bitch named Michelle Bachmann. Just pick anything she says at any time and it is likely the dumbest and most deceitful thing spoken by a human being to date.

Ferfux is losing his shit again.

Come on ferfux you know you have to take your meds daily.

You typing stuff in bold doesnt make it true. You can throw all the temper tantrums you want it doesnt change the fact that politifact is a bunch of liberal partisan hacks who always pick the most insignificant democrat lie to claim to be non partisan.

Theres numerous instances of them being wrong on their fact checks, their lie of the year wasnt a lie, and they consistently claim things are lies based off of information directly from the Obama pr machine which are lies themselves. Real nonpartisan fact checkers dont use talking points as their source.

Ferfux and Gerrymander are just as faggy as you. Stuck in partisan hell and not understanding

NO ONE GIVES A FUCK

The choices have been made, America has spoken. I hated it when Bush was president, guess what, term limits and people seeing that administration for what it was eventually fixed that situation. If you hate the current administration, wait 3 years they'll be gone, and maybe if it is as bad as you think your guy will win next time.

I wouldn't bet on it based on how I see you sore losers whining all the fucking time and stuck in the 1950s when it comes to social issues, but what the fuck do I know.

What I do know is that the Jeep ad was received, judged, and found to be full of shit. Don't like it? Become a sci-fi writer and invent whatever alternate universe you'd like Elron.

Liberal Logic 05 Wrote:
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> what? Wrote:
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> -----
>
> > Try reading the posts in this thread and you
> might
> > understand the relevance:
> >
> >

Quote

All colleges and college students and
> > college professors are liberals.

> >
> >

Quote

Gee, a bunch of liberals in a liberal
> > program at a liberal college finds that a
> liberal
> > site that supports liberals is good.

> >
> >

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Much of the staff and proffs at GMU
> are
> > raging liberals.

> >
> >

Quote

The professors are overwhelming
> liberal,
> > the student body however is pretty liberal as
> well
> > as they pride themselves on diversity for the
> sake
> > of diversity instead of picking the best
> > candidates to attend.

> >
> > You and your sock puppets made the references
> to
> > GMU.
>
> I see comprehension isnt your strong suit. So two
> departments that lean conservative make a school
> that has over 100 departments conservative, got it


You are intellectually dishonest, and you know it.

what? Wrote:
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> Liberal Logic 05 Wrote:
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> > what? Wrote:
> >
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> > -----
> >
> > > Try reading the posts in this thread and you
> > might
> > > understand the relevance:
> > >
> > >

Quote

All colleges and college students and
> > > college professors are liberals.

> > >
> > >

Quote

Gee, a bunch of liberals in a
> liberal
> > > program at a liberal college finds that a
> > liberal
> > > site that supports liberals is good.

> > >
> > >

Quote

Much of the staff and proffs at GMU
> > are
> > > raging liberals.

> > >
> > >

Quote

The professors are overwhelming
> > liberal,
> > > the student body however is pretty liberal as
> > well
> > > as they pride themselves on diversity for the
> > sake
> > > of diversity instead of picking the best
> > > candidates to attend.

> > >
> > > You and your sock puppets made the references
> > to
> > > GMU.
> >
> > I see comprehension isnt your strong suit. So
> two
> > departments that lean conservative make a
> school
> > that has over 100 departments conservative, got
> it
>
>
> You are intellectually dishonest, and you know it.


Half those quotes arent even me ferfux.

We all know your ferfux your throwing a hissy fit in his classic style with his huge bold letters.

Its rather ironic someone posting the trash you do brings up the word intellectual. As always youre defending lies and its already been proven above so you switched your sn to come back and do it again.

If you want to be treated like an adult act like one

Republican Allegation - Obama has been the biggest spending President in history!
FALSE. Year to year spending increases have been less than 1% under Obama. They’re also at their lowest rate of year to year increases since President Eisenhower was President in the 1950's.

Republican Allegation - Obama has spent more than all other Presidents in history!
FALSE. On January 20, 2009 our national debt was $10.6 trillion. Today it’s $16.7 trillion. That is a $6.1 trillion increase. For the mathematically challenged, $6.1 trillion is less than $10.6 trillion. This also doesn’t factor in the money spent in 2009, which gets tagged to President Obama, but was actually passed under and signed into law by Bush - a Republican.

*This also doesn’t take into account that much of the costs for the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars were not put on our books or factored into expenditures or offset by tax revenue increases by the Bush administration.

Republican Allegation - Obama is a Muslim!
FALSE. Raised Christian. Attended and attends Christian Churches. Raising his Children Christian.

Republican Allegation - Obama isn’t an American!
FALSE. See birth certificate, drivers licenses, passports, and current office/employer records - as fully vetted code level TS/SCI, life style poly, code word. and color level cleared to launch the most powerful arsenal on earth.

Republican Allegation - Obama is a Communist/Socialist/Fascist!
FALSE. They’re all different — it is impossible to be all 3. With stocks setting new records, having their best stretch since 1996, and increasing by more than 100% since their lows in 2008 when Obama took over from Republican Bush...Obama would be the worst Communist, Socialist or Fascist that has ever existed because the DOW is now at over 15,400 and rising; Housing is up; Consumer Confidence is Up.

WTF you talkin about Willis?!

Republican Allegation - Obama is always on vacation!
FALSE. President Obama took 131 vacation days in his first 4 years in office. That puts him on pace for 262 days during his 8 years in the White House. By contrast, Bush took 1,020 days (including a 5-week vacation – the longest by any President in nearly 4 decades), and Reagan took 484 days. Once again for the mathematically challenged, Obama is on pace to take fewer vacations than both Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush.

Republican Allegation - The economy has gotten worse under Obama!
FALSE. In February 2009, we lost 651K jobs. In February 2013, we added 236K jobs. Again, for the mathematically challenged, that’s a positive shift of 887K jobs from our losses in February 2009 to our gains as of February 2013.

Republican Allegation - Those jobs numbers are a lie!
Fact: No, they are from the same source which Republicans have used to saddle Obama with job losses (from his first year in office - and only his first year). You can’t use a source to support your argument, then ignore that very same source, when it no longer supports what you want to believe.

Republican Allegation - Unemployment is at record highs!
FALSE. Unemployment hit a high during November 2009 at 10%, it is now at 7.7%.
The Republican rebuttal to this one, “But that doesn’t include the people who have stopped looking for work!” I hate to burst your bubble, but the unemployment rate never includes those who have given up looking for work. This isn’t a shift in what defines our unemployment rate - this is how it has been calculated for quite some time.

Fun history lesson: When Reagan took office, unemployment was at 7.5%. Within his first 18 months in office unemployment shot all the way up to 10.8%.


Republican Allegation - ObamaCare is unconstitutional!
FALSE. The Affordable Care Act was passed by Congress, signed into law by the President, and affirmed as the law of the land by the Supreme Court - which ruled that it was in fact Constitutional. The GOP Congress however has voted 37 times unsuccessfully to repeal it and spent a shit-load of tax payer dollars to do fail repeatedly to do so.

Republican Allegation - Obama wants to rule like a dictator through his Executive Orders as President!
FALSE. In his 4+ years, President Obama has issued 147 Executive orders, and is on pace to issue 288 by the end of his second term. By comparison, George W. Bush issued 291 Executive orders while in office and Ronald Reagan signed 381 during his 8 years in the White House. President Obama is on pace to issue fewer Executive orders than both George W. Bush and Ronald Reagan.

Republican Allegation - Obama has been terrible for business!
FALSE. Corporate profits are up 171% since President Obama took office and are at their highest levels, relative to the size of economic growth, since 1947.

Republican Allegation - Obama has waged a war on the rich!
FALSE. We’ve added over 300,000 new millionaires, for a total of 8.9 million, approaching the all-time high of 9.2 million.

Republican Allegation - Obama is out to take away our Second Amendment rights! FALSE. Well, not anymore than Ronald Reagan or George W. Bush wanted to. He wants to put back in place the assault weapons ban that was supported by Reagan and Bush that expired in 2004. He also wants to limit magazine size to 10 rounds and require universal background checks for all gun purchases–something that is overwhelmingly supported by most Americans, regardless of political affiliation.

The above statements comprise the vast majority of comments I read from Republicans, and they’re completely inaccurate.

This is why political debate in America goes absolutely nowhere these days. It’s hard to have a rational discussion with people who are starting their argument based on complete lies from Fox News and similar sources of complete and utter bullshit lies.

Democrats lie and twist facts. Unfortunately they only lie at about 50% the level of the Republicans.

The difference between a half truth, a white lie, and a complete lie is like the difference between a bullet, an artillery shell, and a nuclear bomb - higher casualty levels based on caliber.

A decade of Bush Temporary Tax Cuts never trickled down, saved the economy, or created jobs. Income disparity, however, skyrocketed.

The guy who just posted above isn't me you faggot

So suck my diiiiik

Whats wrong, you dont want to talk about how you are full of shit about the Jeep ad? You wanna cry some more about how Obummerz is president?

WAAAAAAAh

FairFacts Wrote:
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> This is why political debate in America goes
> absolutely nowhere these days. It’s hard to
> have a rational discussion with people who are
> starting their argument based on complete lies
> from Fox News and similar sources of complete and
> utter bullshit lies.


When you copy and past blogs word for word youre supposed to link them, or are you ashamed of where this trash came from?

All you did was copy and past a blog by Allen Clifton on forwardprogressives.com

http://www.forwardprogressives.com/debunking-almost-every-republican-lie-against-president-obama/

Don't debate that fucking moron, he's as dumb as you (though he is right about republicans being lying thieving bitches).

Respond to me about the jeep ad you little cunt. Whats wrong? You got pwnd on reality and dont like it?

Whats wrong

Elron

Just invent some alternate universe you little bitch monger chode munching trickle dick

Youre the same person ferfux, take your meds. If you want attention act like an adult and people would respond to you and you wouldnt need to have 100 sns that have all been completely discredited.

Ill address this one time and one time only.

Mitt Romneys ad said "Obama sold Chrysler to Italians who are going to build Jeeps In China."

100 percent true, jeeps are being built in china. It said nothing about closing down us plants.

Heres the ad so once again everyone can see how full of shit you are

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVv6w0EC7Qs&feature=player_embedded

Liberal Logic 05 Wrote:

>
> Ill address this one time and one time only.
>
> Mitt Romneys ad said "Obama sold Chrysler to
> Italians who are going to build Jeeps In China."
>
> 100 percent true, jeeps are being built in china.
> It said nothing about closing down us plants.
>
> Heres the ad so once again everyone can see how
> full of shit you are
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVv6w0EC7Qs&feature
> =player_embedded


OOPS well fuck me gently with a chain saw im completely wrong! OOOPSIE!


Mitt Romney falsely claimed in a recent speech that “Jeep, now owned by the Italians, is thinking of moving all production to China.” Chrysler says it is considering adding Jeep production sites in China to address rising demand in that market. But the company says it is “a leap that would be difficult even for professional circus acrobats” to suggest that it would close U.S. facilities and move all operations to China.

Let’s take the claim about China first, since it has emerged as a new talking point for Romney. He made a similar — and outright false — claim during an Oct. 25 campaign speech in Ohio. In Defiance, Ohio, Romney said: “One of the great manufacturers in this state, Jeep, now owned by the Italians, is thinking of moving all production to China.”

That’s simply not true, and Chrysler has said so.

Here are the facts: Chrysler is considering returning to China because demand for Jeep vehicles is rising in Asia, as reported in an Oct. 22 article by Bloomberg News. The company had produced Jeeps in China for that market before 2009, when the Italian automaker Fiat became the majority owner of Chrysler as part of the U.S. government’s auto bailout.

But this doesn’t mean that Chrysler will be moving any of its U.S. operations to China. In fact, Bloomberg reported: “Chrysler currently builds all Jeep SUV models at plants in Michigan, Illinois and Ohio. Manley referred to adding Jeep production sites rather than shifting output from North America to China.”

http://factcheck.org/2012/10/romney-distorts-facts-on-jeep-auto-bailout/

liberal logic 05 Wrote:
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> OOPS well fuck me gently with a chain saw im
> completely wrong! OOOPSIE!
>
>
> Mitt Romney falsely claimed in a recent speech
> that “Jeep, now owned by the Italians, is
> thinking of moving all production to China.”
> Chrysler says it is considering adding Jeep
> production sites in China to address rising demand
> in that market. But the company says it is “a
> leap that would be difficult even for professional
> circus acrobats” to suggest that it would close
> U.S. facilities and move all operations to China.
>
> Let’s take the claim about China first, since it
> has emerged as a new talking point for Romney. He
> made a similar — and outright false — claim
> during an Oct. 25 campaign speech in Ohio. In
> Defiance, Ohio, Romney said: “One of the great
> manufacturers in this state, Jeep, now owned by
> the Italians, is thinking of moving all production
> to China.”
>
> That’s simply not true, and Chrysler has said
> so.
>
> Here are the facts: Chrysler is considering
> returning to China because demand for Jeep
> vehicles is rising in Asia, as reported in an Oct.
> 22 article by Bloomberg News. The company had
> produced Jeeps in China for that market before
> 2009, when the Italian automaker Fiat became the
> majority owner of Chrysler as part of the U.S.
> government’s auto bailout.
>
> But this doesn’t mean that Chrysler will be
> moving any of its U.S. operations to China. In
> fact, Bloomberg reported: “Chrysler currently
> builds all Jeep SUV models at plants in Michigan,
> Illinois and Ohio. Manley referred to adding Jeep
> production sites rather than shifting output from
> North America to China.”
>
> http://factcheck.org/2012/10/romney-distorts-facts
> -on-jeep-auto-bailout/

Once again youre full of shit. Politifact fact checked the Romney ad which is 100 percent true.

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2012/oct/30/mitt-romney/mitt-romney-obama-chrysler-sold-italians-china-ame/

The ad was 100 percent accurate. Keep waiving that white flag ferfux, posting under my name just confirms you cant resort to anything but trolling and are throwing a hissy fit as you get your ass handed to you over and over and over and over again. You cant even post under your own names anymore youve been discredited so badly, even politifact would give you the pants on fire rating.

Liberal Logic 06 Wrote:
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> Once again youre full of shit. Politifact fact
> checked the Romney ad which is 100 percent true.

> http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements
> /2012/oct/30/mitt-romney/mitt-romney-obama-chrysle
> r-sold-italians-china-ame/
>
> The ad was 100 percent accurate. Keep waiving
> that white flag ferfux, posting under my name just
> confirms you cant resort to anything but trolling
> and are throwing a hissy fit as you get your ass
> handed to you over and over and over and over
> again. You cant even post under your own names
> anymore youve been discredited so badly, even
> politifact would give you the pants on fire
> rating.


You realize the link isn't helping you here, right?

Young Curmudgeon Wrote:
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> You realize the link isn't helping you here,
> right?

It is, it shows how they "fact checked" the ad and just went on wild tangents to get to their desired outcome.

From the link
"The Romney campaign ad says Obama "sold Chrysler to Italians who are going to build Jeeps in China" at the cost of American jobs. The ad leaves the clear impression that Jeeps built in China come at the expense of American workers.

The ad miscasts the government’s role in Fiat’s acquisition of Chrysler, and it misrepresents the outcome. Chrysler’s owners had been trying to sell to Italy-based Fiat before Obama took office. The ad ignores the return of American jobs to Chrysler Jeep plants in the United States, and it presents the manufacture of Jeeps in China as a threat, rather than an opportunity to sell cars made in China to Chinese consumers. It strings together facts in a way that presents an wholly inaccurate picture.

We rate the statement Pants on Fire!"

The ad stated nothing more than jeep was sold and is going to be building jeeps in china. Now they are building jeeps in china yet thats the "nonpartisan" analysis they come up with.

If thats what rates a Pants on Fire than Obamas debate fact checking must have rated a "The truth was murdered so badly it will never be heard from again", but it wasnt. Theres nothing nonpartisan about them

Bachman is a whackadoodle. And, I am an original Teapartier, before the whackadoodles hijacked the movement.