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The Real Marty · 09-21-2017, 12:21 PM

(09-21-2017, 11:19 AM)MalabarJag Wrote:
(09-21-2017, 09:48 AM)The Real Marty Wrote: Okay, you and I completely agree that politicians should be truth-checked as much as possible. So it must follow that what they are doing to Trump with the truth checking is okay. The problem you have is that you don't think they applied the same standard to Obama. But that's a different issue.

Personally, I think the difference in the way the press treats Trump is less a result of a double-standard, and more the result of the incredible volume of lies that come out of his mouth. They can't avoid truth checking him, because that's their job. If a politician tells a lie, the press has a duty to provide the facts that reveal the lie. If they failed to do enough truth-checking on Obama, that would be bad, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't truth-check Trump, because as you and I agree, they should truth check everybody as much as possible.

It's 100% double standard. Compare how they portray Trumps statements to how Snopes treats similar statements about Obama.

http://www.snopes.com/barack-obama-accomplishments/

As long as the double standard exists, then the fact checking should not be trusted. Yes, ideally fact checking politics, if objective, should be a big part of the information. But objective fact-checking by the mostly far-left media is a pipe dream.

This is not to mention that your link was about throw-away lines by Trump about domestic issues. Those statements were insignificant in the context of his speech, which was about how the US would deal with the UN and foreign countries. Can't you see that the article itself was reaching for any tiny thing they could say to discredit Trump? Shouldn't that be a dead giveaway to you?

You don't have to trust Snopes or any other fact checker. You don't need to trust them because facts can be independently veriified from many sources. All the fact checker does is tip you off. From there, it's up to you to do your own work, and it's pretty easy. So there's no need for you to simply reject the claims of fact checkers and then close your mind about it.