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**flsprtsgod** · 09-21-2017, 02:32 PM

(09-21-2017, 12:21 PM)The Real Marty Wrote:
(09-21-2017, 11:19 AM)MalabarJag Wrote:
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.

This issue is that you don't "have to" trust them, it's that most people trust the fact checkers without any scepticism at all. Then when it's demonstrated how biased many of them actually are they become defensive and you get Trump and Hillary for President.

“An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers.”. - Plato