{"id":9761,"date":"2013-05-28T12:04:04","date_gmt":"2013-05-28T19:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=9761"},"modified":"2013-05-28T12:16:22","modified_gmt":"2013-05-28T19:16:22","slug":"study-confirms-that-republicans-lie-more-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=9761","title":{"rendered":"Study Confirms That Republicans Lie More Than Democrats"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"float:right;text-align:center;color:#4646DC;width:210px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Misc\/pray-for-fox.jpg\" alt=\"Pray for Fox News\" width=\"180\"\/><br \/>\n&#8220;Let their lying lips be silenced.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmpa.com\/media_room_press_05_28_13.html\" target=\"_blank\">new study<\/a> by the Center for Media and Public Affairs, Republicans were found to be significantly more dishonest in their public statements than Democrats. The CMPA examined 100 statements by members of both parties that were fact-checked by PolitiFact.com between January 20, to May 22, of 2013. Here is a summary of their findings:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>PolitiFact rated 32% of Republican claims as \u201cfalse\u201d or \u201cpants on fire,\u201d compared to 11% of Democratic claims \u2013 a 3 to 1 margin.<\/li>\n<li>Conversely, Politifact rated 22% of Democratic claims as \u201centirely true\u201d compared to 11% of Republican claims \u2013 a 2 to 1 margin.<\/li>\n<li>A majority of Democratic statements (54%) were rated as mostly or entirely true, compared to only 18% of Republican statements.<\/li>\n<li>Conversely, a majority of Republican statements (52%) were rated as mostly or entirely false, compared to only 24% of Democratic statements.<\/li>\n<li>Despite controversies over Obama administration statements regarding Benghazi, the IRS and the Associated Press, Republicans have continued to fare worse than Democrats, with 60% of their claims rated as false so far this month (May 1 \u2013 May 22), compared to 29% of Democratic statements \u2013 a 2 to 1 margin.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The results of this research may appear to be common sense that any informed person would have known prior to the study, but having a bona fide analysis conducted by a neutral, academic source affirm what is observably true is useful in the ongoing debate over the veracity of our leaders.<\/p>\n<p>This study corroborates my own reporting during the presidential election last year that showed Mitt Romney <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=8646\" target=\"_blank\">spewing falsehoods<\/a> at a far greater rate than the Obama campaign. He won PolitiFact&#8217;s <em>&#8220;Lie of the Year&#8221;<\/em> award and set a record for assaults on the truth by earning 84 citations of falsehoods (41% in all), 19 of which were <em>&#8220;Pants-on-Fire.&#8221;<\/em> But then what should we expect from a party that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7884\" target=\"_blank\">proudly proclaimed<\/a> that <em>&#8220;We\u2019re not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact-checkers.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Let their lying lips be silenced.&#8221; According to a new study by the Center for Media and Public Affairs, Republicans were found to be significantly more dishonest in their public statements than Democrats. The CMPA examined 100 statements by members of both parties that were fact-checked by PolitiFact.com between January 20, to May 22, of [&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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[908,301],"class_list":["post-9761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-politifact","tag-republicans"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-2xr","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7467,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7467","url_meta":{"origin":9761,"position":0},"title":"Fox News Covers Up Mitt Romney&#8217;s Lies As Exposed By PolitiFact","author":"Mark NC","date":"6\/30\/2012","format":false,"excerpt":"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). 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