{"id":7950,"date":"2012-09-07T10:14:33","date_gmt":"2012-09-07T17:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7950"},"modified":"2012-09-07T10:14:33","modified_gmt":"2012-09-07T17:14:33","slug":"not-so-breitbart-left-media-in-full-civil-war-over-fact-checkers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7950","title":{"rendered":"Not So Breitbart: Left Media in Full Civil War Over Fact Checkers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The BreitBrats are at it again. They continue to embarrass themselves with hypocritical articles that lack substance or reason. However, they do provide an abundant source of unintentional humor.<\/p>\n<p>The latest episode features a column by the Editor-At-Large for Breitbart News, Ben Shapiro, with the outrageously hyperbolic title <em>&#8220;Left Media in Full Civil War Over Fact Checkers.&#8221;<\/em> The entirety of his outrage is based on the criticism of a single article by the Associated Press that purports to fact-check Bill Clinton&#8217;s speech at the Democratic National Convention.<\/p>\n<p>The AP&#8217;s article deserved the criticism it received. It&#8217;s analysis was strikingly biased and avoided the most elementary criteria for judging the factual basis of its subject. For instance, the AP highlighted a portion of Clinton&#8217;s speech where he <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/06\/ap-fact-checks-accurate-clinton-comment-by-invo\/189767\" target=\"_blank\">correctly quoted<\/a> a Romney aide saying that <em>&#8220;We&#8217;re not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact checkers.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/Pix\/Campaign2012\/fact-checkers.jpg\" alt=\"Mitt Romney\" \/><\/center><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>The quote was accurate, in context, and documented. The AP&#8217;s response&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>THE FACTS: Clinton, who famously finger-wagged a denial on national television about his sexual relationship with intern Monica Lewinsky and was subsequently impeached in the House on a perjury charge, has had his own uncomfortable moments over telling the truth.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What the hell did that have to with Clinton&#8217;s remark? What bearing did it have on whether or not Clinton&#8217;s statement was factual? Obviously, none at all. And it was the criticism of this article by the AP that brought BreitBrat Ben to the boiling point, accusing the left of engaging in a <em>&#8220;civil war&#8221;<\/em> with nothing more than this one article as evidence. Ironically, Breitbart News has been conducting their own war against fact checkers, whom they regard as a <em>&#8220;liberal&#8221;<\/em> media plot. And I have evidence. Here are a few recent columns from the BreitBrats:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>AP Publishes Laughably Unserious Fact-Check Of Clinton&#8217;s Speech<\/li>\n<li>When Not Outright Lying, Fact-Checkers Make Fools of Themselves<\/li>\n<li>Media Launches Preemptive &#8216;Fact-Check&#8217; Strike on Romney Speech <\/li>\n<li>Era of Media Fact Checkers Intimidating Republicans Is Over<\/li>\n<li>WaPo&#8217;s Glenn Kessler Has Fact-Checking Tantrum Over &#8216;You Didn&#8217;t Build That&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>Romney to Media Fact-Checkers: Drop Dead<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Note that the first article above lambastes the very same AP fact-check that Shapiro is now bashing liberals for criticizing. Breitbart&#8217;s Editor John Nolte is apparently among the liberals who are at war. Except that Nolte&#8217;s war is with his own dementia. He actually believes that the AP published an <em>&#8220;intentionally ridiculous&#8221;<\/em> fact-check in order to help President Obama:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;From where I sit, the corrupt AP intentionally manufactured a ridiculous fact check so they could be on record fact-checking Clinton while at the same time doing zero harm to him and by extension Barack Obama.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s in keeping with his previous paranoid delusions about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7901\" target=\"_blank\">fact-checkers being a liberal plot<\/a>. Nolte and Shapiro are so obsessed with their assault on truth-telling that it has clouded their ability to even remember what they wrote a week or two ago. Even worse, in Shapiro&#8217;s article asserting that liberals are at war with fact-checkers, he unleashes a litany of attacks against them himself. So he can&#8217;t even recall his delusions from one paragraph to the next.<\/p>\n<p>Last month I posted an article with the headline <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7815\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Is Breitbart News Really A Parody Site Attempting To Make Conservatives Look Stupid?&#8221;<\/a> That question sounds less and less rhetorical every day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BreitBrats are at it again. They continue to embarrass themselves with hypocritical articles that lack substance or reason. However, they do provide an abundant source of unintentional humor. The latest episode features a column by the Editor-At-Large for Breitbart News, Ben Shapiro, with the outrageously hyperbolic title &#8220;Left Media in Full Civil War Over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,16],"tags":[503,897,982,901],"class_list":["post-7950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-wankery","tag-associated-press","tag-ben-shapiro","tag-breitbart","tag-john-nolte"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-24e","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10359,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=10359","url_meta":{"origin":7950,"position":0},"title":"Media By Ass: Breitbart Editor Launches TruthRevolt Site To Counter Media Matters","author":"Mark NC","date":"8\/12\/2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The diseased minds at Breitbart News and David Horowitz's Freedom Center are joining together to fill what they perceive as a void in media criticism. 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