PolitiFact Gets Fact Checked : PolitiFact A Progressive Tool

This is not news to me - just as 'Snoops' most of the time falls into the same category as the need arises.

 

To believe the printed press, as well the lettered channels on television, for the most part, are being honest when they report on politics is to have ones mental capacity questioned.

 

PolitiFact

(Right Wisconsin On Line) 

 

Long understood to be just another instrument by which left-wing journalists can editorialize the news, PolitiFact continues to nit pick and spin in an effort to discredit conservatives.

 

The latest example is deconstructed by AM620 WTMJ's Jeff Wagner:

The headline of the piece screams "Walker misleads with Philly Fed index" and proceeds to take Governor Walker to task for "emphasizing an obscure measurement to argue that his policies were improving the state's economy: an index created by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia".  The article then goes on to argue why this Index is essentially useless, especially for state to state comparisons.

 

That would be fine as far as it goes, I guess. Chalk it up to simply another attempt by quasi-opinion columnists at the local newspaper to attack the Governor.  In other words, same old, same old.

 

However, on June 5th of this year, the same newspaper that now dismisses Walker's claim of an improving business climate prominently ran a story with the following headline: "Fed index ranks Wisconsin 49th in economic outlook".  The index they used?  You guessed it! The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia.

 

The PolitiFact writer for the local newspaper today claims that it's not valid to use the Index to make state to state comparisons on economic growth.  Yet less than five months ago, that is precisely what the local newspaper used the exact same Index to do.

PolitiFact has always suffered from wanting to play umpire referee today's political debates, but doing so without any consistent criteria or credibility.

 

PolitiFact is the Loser of the Day.