{"id":7467,"date":"2012-06-30T09:16:48","date_gmt":"2012-06-30T16:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7467"},"modified":"2012-06-30T09:16:48","modified_gmt":"2012-06-30T16:16:48","slug":"fox-news-covers-up-mitt-romneys-lies-as-exposed-by-politifact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7467","title":{"rendered":"Fox News Covers Up Mitt Romney&#8217;s Lies As Exposed By PolitiFact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/Pix\/Campaign2012\/romney-pathological-liar.jpg\" alt=\"Mitt Romney - Pathological Liar\" class=\"alignright\" width=\"350\" \/>Another example of the myriad means by which Fox News distorts reality on behalf of Republicans are the choices they make in what <em>not<\/em> to report as well as what to report dishonestly (which are the only two options considered by Fox reporters).<\/p>\n<p>The truth detectors at PolitiFact are a favorite source of newsmaker evaluations to the folks at Fox Nation. In the past few months they have referenced the site repeatedly when seeking to defend the right and bash the left. After reading a few of the articles post by the Fox Nationalists, it would be fair to conclude that they hold PolitiFact in high regard:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Politifact Annihilates Harry Reid<\/li>\n<li>Fact Check Destroys Pres. Obama&#8217;s Claim He Didn&#8217;t Raise Taxes<\/li>\n<li>Fact Check Nails Maddow&#8230;Again<\/li>\n<li>Pelosi Jobs Claim Skewered by Truth-o-Meter<\/li>\n<li>PolitiFact Rates Jon Stewart&#8217;s Fox News Claims \u2026 False!<\/li>\n<li>PolitiFact: Perry Did NOT Say Texas Wanted to Secede<\/li>\n<li>Politifact: Perry Was NOT Al Gore&#8217;s TX Campaign Manager<\/li>\n<li>Watchdog: Obama&#8217;s List of Kept Promises Is a Stretch<\/li>\n<li>Politifact&#8217;s Lie of the Year 2011: &#8216;Republicans Voted to End Medicare&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>Politifact Shreds MSNBC &#8216;Lean Forward&#8217; Ad<\/li>\n<li>PolitiFact: Debbie Wasserman Schultz Is a Liar<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Like many things in the political realm, the conclusions reached in some of those articles were debatable. PolitiFact has made its share of tortured appraisals that miss the mark. But, if nothing else, the list above proves that they are not the sort of knee-jerk leftists that conservatives think dominate the media.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, the Fox Nationalists are shamelessly selective in their use of material from PolitiFact. The day after the Supreme Court ruled that ObamaCare is constitutional, Mitt Romney spoke out against the decision in a litany of lies. PolitiFact posted reviews of a couple of points in Romney&#8217;s remarks and rated them both as false.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/Pix\/Campaign2012\/romney-politifact.jpg\" alt=\"Romney's Lies\" \/><\/center><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>So despite a long track record of publishing PolitiFact&#8217;s findings, for some reason the Fox Nationalists declined to report on these obvious and deliberate falsehoods. It&#8217;s probably the same reason they have neglected to inform their audience of dimwits that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politifact.com\/personalities\/mitt-romney\/\" target=\"_blank\">Romney has been rated as untruthful<\/a> 54 times by PolitiFact, and 13 of those were <em>\u201cPants-on-Fire\u201d<\/em> lies. In fact, 40% of PolitiFact&#8217;s findings on statements by Romney are rated as untruthful.<\/p>\n<p>If Fox actually had even a hint of aspiration to be fair and balanced, they would be reporting that Romney is as close to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7395\" target=\"_blank\">pathological liar<\/a> as anyone who has ever run for president. However, there is nothing stopping the rest of the media from reporting the truth about Romney&#8217;s compulsive dishonesty. But that&#8217;s another problem altogether (Liberal media my ass).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another example of the myriad means by which Fox News distorts reality on behalf of Republicans are the choices they make in what not to report as well as what to report dishonestly (which are the only two options considered by Fox reporters). The truth detectors at PolitiFact are a favorite source of newsmaker evaluations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[152,1],"tags":[527,260],"class_list":["post-7467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election","category-general","tag-fox-nation","tag-mitt-romney"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-1Wr","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8646,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=8646","url_meta":{"origin":7467,"position":0},"title":"PolitiFact&#8217;s Lie Of The Year: The Romney Campaign&#8217;s Ad On Jeeps Made In China","author":"Mark NC","date":"12\/12\/2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Once again, the proclivity for deception and dishonesty as practiced by Republicans and right-wing media has earned them the honor being awarded \"Lie Of The Year\" by the fact-checkers at Politifact. There were so many deserving lies told by Mitt Romney and his campaign that it must have been a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":24930,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=24930","url_meta":{"origin":7467,"position":1},"title":"PolitiFact On The New Improved Fox News: Now With Even More Lies","author":"Mark NC","date":"1\/27\/2015","format":false,"excerpt":"The fact checkers over at PolitiFact have updated their Truth-O-Meter scorecards for the cable news networks and the results are not particularly favorable for Fox News (which is not particularly surprising). Click here to SHARE this On Facebook According to PolitiFact, the current results breakdown like this: At Fox 61%\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"Fox News PolitiFact","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/foxnews-politifact-lies.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/foxnews-politifact-lies.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/foxnews-politifact-lies.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":6231,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=6231","url_meta":{"origin":7467,"position":2},"title":"Fox Nation Review Of Obama Ad Riddled With Falsehoods","author":"Mark NC","date":"1\/19\/2012","format":false,"excerpt":"The Obama campaign just released its first advertisement of this election season. It focused on his record of ethics and energy independence, specifically addressing the phony allegations from \"secretive oil billionaires\" (the Koch brothers?). It did not take long for Fox News to start its attack on the ad by\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5993,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=5993","url_meta":{"origin":7467,"position":3},"title":"Politifact Lie Of The Year Confirmed True By Fox News","author":"Mark NC","date":"12\/20\/2011","format":false,"excerpt":"The widely respected and Pulitzer Prize winning Politifact has announced their annual selection for \"Lie of the Year.\" Unfortunately, they have selected something that is demonstrably true: \"Republicans voted to end Medicare.\" There has already been a tidal wave of criticism for this selection, which I will not regurgitate. If\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3430,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=3430","url_meta":{"origin":7467,"position":4},"title":"PolitiFact Lie Of The Year: Government Takeover Of Health Care","author":"Mark NC","date":"12\/17\/2010","format":false,"excerpt":"PolitiFact, an independent fact-checking project from the St. Petersburg Times, has selected their \"Lie of the Year\" from the hundreds that are dispensed annually by politicians and pundits. It must have been a grueling exercise, but their selection is more than deserving. \"PolitiFact editors and reporters have chosen \"government takeover\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11069,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=11069","url_meta":{"origin":7467,"position":5},"title":"Fox News Hypes PolitiFact&#8217;s Lie Of The Year, One Week After Saying Never Trust PolitiFact","author":"Mark NC","date":"12\/13\/2013","format":false,"excerpt":"It's time once again for the unveiling of the \"Lie of the Year\" by the fact-checkers at PolitiFact. This year the dis-honoree is President Barack Obama for his promotional assurance that under the Affordable Care Act (aka ObamaCare) \"If you like your health care plan, you can keep it.\" Pretty\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"Fox Nation PolitiFact","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/foxnation-politifact-oopsie.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7467"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7472,"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7467\/revisions\/7472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}