By Stephen Dietrich, Managing Editor
It seems like the bias in the media is getting worse and worse — and even the self-anointed “fact checkers” are guilty.
PolitiFact, which describes itself as “a fact-checking website that rates the accuracy of claims by elected officials and others who speak up in American politics” whose “staffers research statements and rate their accuracy on the Truth-O-Meter, from True to False,” recently published an article that claimed Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was lying about the real unemployment rate among African-American youths, rating his statement as “Mostly False.”
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But when Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders made those very same claims a year ago, they labeled the claim “Mostly True.”
Too stupid to be true?
Afraid not. We have the undeniable evidence that even the most close-minded, diehard liberal can’t deny:
The contradiction (and it has nothing to do with the 8-point differential) was first noticed by eagle eyed users of Trump’s Reddit forum, and it’s smoking gun proof that the largest media “fact checking” organization in the country is clearly biased against conservatives.
The claims are simple — the real unemployment rate among African-American youth is staggering, both Sanders and Trump explained. The grim reality of our inner cities isn’t truthfully explained in the Bureau of Labor Statistics unemployment data.
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The two articles discuss and “fact check” these two exact same claims, but the amount of mental gymnastics the authors make to defend Sanders is shameful.
Then, they turn around and use the same mental gymnastics to attack Trump just a year later.
In their Sanders article, Politifact concludes that, “Sanders said that for African-Americans between the ages of 17 and 20, ‘the real unemployment rate … is 51 percent.’ His terminology was off, but the numbers he used check out, and his general point was correct — that in an apples-to-apples comparison, African-American youth have significantly worse prospects in the job market than either Hispanics or whites do” and rules his claim ‘True’.
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When Trump uses those same statistics?
“Trump says the unemployment rate for black youths is 59 percent. The unemployment rate is a widely used term with a specific definition: It refers to the percentage of jobless people in the workforce who are actively seeking employment. In May, the unemployment rate for blacks ages 16 to 24 was 18.7 percent, or less than one-third of Trump’s claim,” PolitiFact simply concludes in their ‘False’ rating.
There it is. It’s what we’ve been saying for years, laid bare — in the media, liberals are defended and conservatives unfairly attacked… even if they are saying the same exact thing!
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If the so-called “fact checkers” can’t be trusted, who can be?
One thing is for certain — the naked hypocrisy in the media is now undeniable.
— Stephen Dietrich is the Managing Editor of The Horn News
They are not liberals. They are fascists.
Marxist Communists….
No they just want the gravy train to stay on track. As long as the fact’s they check are in line with what the Demcraps want, they keep their job’s. I used to be a Dem, but went Ind about twenty five year’s ago, when I realized that it is all a front for the mega-rich
I don’t need anyone to prove to me that the Liberal Media is rotten to the core all you have to do is listen and watch these vermin , Liberals are brain cell deficient in the first place , how about that wind bag Crawley and the way she lied in the debate with Romney that women should be kicked out of the Media she is an EMETIC DISGUSTING DISGRACE ! as is all her brethren , Katy courick , Criss tingle down his leg Mathews , Rachel Madcow , that’s just to name a few I could go on and on .
If it is derived from the Media it is immediately suspect. You cannot trust even the fact checkers to have truth as their goal. The Media lies across the spectrum. We will never hear the actual truth from any media source. Remember the Government Media Complex? Well it is here now. We need a completely new direction to take it down. Our country is failing as the Government Media Complex grows. These people have no Patriotism, love of America, or personal moral compass. They are after power and money and will say and do anything to get it. Follow the money. Follow the power. Use your brain. Analyze cause and affect. Do not allow Enabling to continue as it destroys personal initiative. Being an American Citizen is a responsibility not a gift. Vote to break the chains tying the country down. Think of the power of the people released from the disease of the media. When will we get truth? When the American people demand it and the Politicians are held to the standard of truth or consequences.
“The Media lies across the spectrum. We will never hear the actual truth from any media source.”
If true (I don’t actually believe this statement to be true), then the same is true for those media outlets that have an alleged conservative bias as well as those with an alleged liberal bias. If there are no media outlets that are credible and reliable and free of bias then I am forced to wonder how this writer is getting any credible, reliable information at all by which to evaluate the candidates, or anything going on in the world at all.
Seems like there are two significant differences; 8 points and 1 year. If Donald says he believes it is 16% higher than Bernie said a year ago, he needs to explain how he came to that conclusion. Just saying it doesn’t make it so.
WONDERED WHEN U THE MURDERER BACKER WOULD BE BACK. DID U HALF TO HAVE A LONG MEETING WITH SATAN.
WtF are you talking about? Trump said “59%.” Sanders said “51%.” A little subtraction reveals an 8% difference between the two.
Where TF are you getting “16%”?
That said, it’s obvious that The Horn is not exactly accurate, either; they said “EXACT same thing” in re: the statements of both, when their OWN ARTICLE shows an 8% difference, hardly “exactly,” now, is it?
Thre is no explaination for this , the report ,statistic they compiled from ., and the number only mean more ,it s not an accurate number like in an equation or in math . It’s quantitive
And anyone know how the gov count unemployment . I myself as one exemple
I agree with you!
Anyone who refers to Americas of African decent as African-Americas are divisive and racists. Democrats are the worst racists. What is a white American?? Why are they not called European-Americans? What about Spanish Americans? Why are they not called non-gringo Americans. Why are Americans of local Indian descent not called “Sitting Bull Americans?? And then of course there is the huge Chinese population of the USA. Why are these people not called Chinese-Americans. Democrats have picked up on the old Apart-hate system of classifying every one by their race, Why not simple Americans??
Anyone who refers to Americas of African decent as African-Americas are divisive and racists. /////\\\\\ White or Black Africans? White or Black Americans? //////\\\\\\ UNITED STATES. Flag is “NOT” The AMERICAN Flag!!!!!
Why work? when being Black is a leg up for Welfare…Bully your way into sports for the big $$$!
Main Street……It’s no wonder that “mainstream media” has a 6% in trustworthiness. Fact is, they aren’t and haven’t been and cannot be trusted to give fair and balanced and unbiased news at all. They not only leave out news that is worthy of the people knowing but when they do have news, they twist it, are progressively democratically subjective and even out and out lie as well (just like their candidate and the people in all their many hate groups.) Oh yes, did you know that the KKK, as with the BLM are both from the DEMOCRATIC cloth – cut?! You’re spot on correct!
This country is going down the tubes! Our only chance is for Trump to win! Then and only then will this noncence stop!
Trump that lowlife draft dodger, bankruptcy loving waste will NEVER win. He doesn’t belong within 1000 mi. of the White House.
And so you would give the lying, cover-up artist thieving candidate another chance to rob our country and the White House? That is so sad!!
She doesn’t belong anywhere near the White House. The ONLY place she belongs is prison.
YOU GOT THAT RIGHT. SHE GETS AWAY WITH ALL CRIMES. NOT FAIR TO THE AMERICAN CITIZENS THAT WERE PUT IN PRISON FOR THE SAME CRINES. WHO IS IN CHARGE OF CRIMES? THE CRIMINALS THEMSELVES. ALL THE EVEDENCE IS THERE BUT THE CROOKS GO FREE????????????THATS BULL SH…………….IT PAYS TO BE A CRIMINAL.
How about murdering our Americans in Bengazi? Does she get a free ride from you on that also?
She did not murder anyone. Those who attacked the embassy were the murderers.
right non Lilly
dogfightwithdogma-
First, i like your handle.
Second, however, there are crimes called “negligent homicide,” “depraved indifference,” and “aiding and abetting murder,” all 3 of which she’s guilty of.
i agree, she didn’t pull the triggers or shove the knives up the rectums of the victims, but she supplied the weaponry, didn’t she?
At the very LEAST, she refused to send help when she KNEW that the entire Embassy staff was at risk. If that’s not depraved indifference, i don’t know what IS!
Another BRAIN DEAD BLIND LIBERAL Spewing the standard Liberals BULLSHIT…
Hey Peter–You are obviously a communist lovin’ Clinton fan! Sorry to see you want our country to continue in the direction that O’Vomit has us going!
This guy is definitely uneducated and on welfare to vote for lying Hillary.
To Peter Anton,
Even Trump is lowlife as you see, I envision Hillary bad judgement DNA is not only incurable it is inheritable on and on forever
Our national problems today are created wholly from DEMS. One mistake is bad enough for history, they make so many mistakes nonstop for more than a decade. I would have to give up if the case happened to my own child !!!! No hope !!!!
HE WILL SOON BE MOVING CLOSE TO THE WHITE HOUSE EVEN IF HE IS NOT IN IT.
The we won’t go down the tubes, we will go straight down the toilet. Peter is correct, though. The only way Li’l Lyin’ Donnie will see the inside of the White House is if his Senator gets him a ticket for the tour.
When the morning of Nov. 9, 2016 rolls around, and Trump has won by a landslide, i wonder if you’ll have the balls to return and ‘fess up that you were wrong…
How can you tell if a liberal is lying…??? If their lips move they are lying!
How can you tell if Trump is telling the truth??? When his lips are moving.
Hillary the tax woman lier about emails and sept 11 attack in Libia she said it was a video another lie
Your picture says exactly from where you come, eagle says. Your eagle is not the emblem of the USA, probably some stuffed bird.
Amen
You’d have to be completely out of your mind to think the media isn’t biased and in the bag for Hillary the “Hun”.
I have to totally agree. Especially in Ma and Southern New Hampshire. The free air channels spend much of their air time between commercials bashing Trump.
Are they bashing him or just reporting what he said. Of course, both sound similar.
At least he can walk up stairs alone
roflmao-you’ll laugh and make jokes tomorrow after hillary implodes tonight,lol
Anyone who thought PolitiFact was in touch with either facts or politics already wasn’t paying attention. This is news only in the sense that someone has found another way to document their bias.
I AGREE WITH YOU 100% IRAL HELD
I agree that PolitiFact – like the Horn News – sometimes practices sloppy journalism. However, the sloppiness noted here is not as bad as this article makes it seem. PolitiFact is not really a single entity. Rather, it is a project coordinated by the Tampa Bay Times in which reporters and editors for a dozen or so newspapers fact-check many items that are considered newsworthy. The checks mentioned in this article were done by different reporters and different editors. If you read the discussions, both say that the numbers depend on how “unemployment” is defined. One team said that Sanders’ staff pointed them to data from the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute, and based on that data they could accept that Sanders had spoken “mostly true.” The other team requested Trump’s campaign to let them know the basis for his statement; and when they got no response they concluded that Trump’s statement was “mostly false” based on the accepted definitions of “unemployment,” but made it clear that Trump’s statement could be seen as close to correct if the “employment-population ratio” was “flipped over” and then interpreted.
Just yesterday, the Los Angeles Times had an excellent article pointing out that Donald Trump has lied more than any major candidate this century. Every day there are articles and op-eds telling us about Hillary Clinton’s lies. Gary Johnson doesn’t know enough about what he is saying for there to be a reasonable discussion about whether he is lying.
Who can you support this election? I don’t know, maybe Jill Stein.
Wow, a reasoned and sane response on TheHorn. What can we expect next?
Obviously nothing reasonable & sane from the “OragelGuy”! You are just another communist who can’t see freedom as a GODSEND!!
the media are so corrupt and biased against mr trump.there is only fox news that is honest.i hope mr trump remembers this when he is elected
THE MEDIA IS SO DETERMINED TO SWAY THIS ELECTION T=IT SUCKS BADLY AND I’M CONFIDENT THE ONES THAT WANT CHANGE CAN ONLY GET IT FROM TRUMP PEN NCE TICKET! JAN ZAKARAS, ARIZONA!
Even Fox News is questionable at this time.
Fox News is the only credible news source? You have got to stop drinking the hallucinogenic-laced tea.
Malcolm, if you believe that Fox News is honest, then you are truly deluded. Their policy is to make stuff up, repeat it a few dozen times with the lead “Some people are saying…”, and counting on the uninformed to eventually say “I heard it before so it must be true”.
TODAY’S MEDIA IS MADE UP OF ACTORS/ACTRESSES WHOSE ONLY EXPERIENCE IS “READING TELEPROMPTER SCRIPS” WRITTEN BY VERY SPONSERS OF SHOW! THE GREATS, LIKE DAN RATHER, WHO TOLD THE TRUTH, WERE FORCED OUT. OUR NATION IS RIDDLED WITH NOTHING BUT PROPAGANDA NEWS………ALL LIES, JUST LIKE HIL-LIAR-Y
VOTE TRUMP/PENCE.
The Liberals are nothing but big mouthed wind bags that just blab & gab, but take no action-they are phonies, fakers. The media is pro Clinton, anti everyone else, the Clinton’s own the media or have very good members of their exclusive club called Club Clinton that own & operate the MSM.
So you are still spewing idiotic nonsense. I guess you just can’t help it as your mama sleeping with her daddy pooped out an ignorant INBRED like you. Must be hard being a retarded Trump Chump. Stay away from your other inbred siblings, don’t need anymore idiots in this country.
This was very low classed on your part. And you should be ashamed of yourself for calling others names and questioning their birth. I am sure no one would have the right to question yours, at least in your opinion.
Right you are, Marsha. Leave that kind of name-calling to the master, Donald Trump.
Peter & OragelGuy—2 turds in a pod!
Obamas birth was brought up by Hillary when she was running against Obama for president in 2008 but she is now using it against Trump.In the book on Obama dreams of my father it is published that he was born in Kenya. Who is telling the truth?
Surprise! surprise! People know they are bias but just keep on believing because it is just easier then thinking themselves.
They pick the Republican candidate an after he is chosen they tear HIM down viciously. Happens every time. Hasn’t anyone but me noticed??? Wake up America before it is to late!
Perhaps all of the FACT CHECKERS should be injected with TRUTH SERUM prior to releasing their NEFARIOUS comments to the American people. In fact the same injections should be given to all politicians running for office in our nation.
Sorry, it’s all but impossible to awaken people who are in a coma !!!
Bible Study
In this crazy election season, a little religion might be
appropriate, so here is a short Bible study.
Remember what Jesus said: ‘Goats on the left, sheep on the right’
(Matthew 25:33).
Jesus also told Peter that if he wanted to catch fish do it from
the right side of the boat. They did and filled the boat
with fish.
John 21:6 (NIV) … He said, “Throw your net on the right side of
the boat and you will find some.” When they did, they were
unable to haul the net in because of the large number of fish.”
Origin of Left & Right…I have often wondered why it is that
Conservatives are called the right” and Liberals are called
the “left”.
By chance I stumbled upon this verse in the Bible: Ecclesiastes 10:2
(NIV) – “The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.”
Thus sayeth the Lord. Amen.
It surely can’t get any simpler than that.
Spelling Lesson: The last four letters in American………. I Can
The last four letters in Republican…….. I Can
The last four letters in Democrats……… Rats
End of lesson! …Test to follow on November 8, 2016.
Remember, November 2016 is to be set aside as rodent removal month.
Thank you for giving a little chuckle to God and the rest of us. Of course, the Bible also tells us that Ehud was a mighty warrior and a judge of Israel, as well as being left handed, and speaks of 700 left-handed warriors who could “sling a stone at a hair and not miss.” (Judges 20:16). The Jewish Kabbalah uses the right side to represent this mundane world, while the left represents the greater world of spirit.
Also, don’t forget the last four letters in “Trump.”
The media is at an all time Low . They have really become more shit since obummer is in , and now are doing the same for hitlery . The Great news is they have buried themselves finally because they tried pulling too much shit over everyone too fast . Now everyone but crooked politicians and Hollywood will continue to watch them where they can get some little ratings . Soon as we get Our President Trump in they will probably loose all viewers . Fox has been one that has some who report Honestly , but they too better tread lightly as the guys boys they say , may be running the station completely who are liberal idiots . We all need to boycott the bad stations until they start reporting Honestly . And if they don’t then it will be a matter of time they’re gone ! There are also some good talk radio stations out there who report everything , not just what the libs want you to hear ..
Even Fox has too many Liberals…Although many of them are moving to the CLINTON NOISE NUTWORK…CNN…
Fox still has Geraldo….Whinny Juany Williams….Megan “The Mouth” Kelly and many more…along with many of Establishment RINO types…Who along with the all the Marxist Communist Liberals…Do not want to see their GRAVY TRAIN DESTROYED…
Comments here accuse both sides of bias & simply try to argue who is most biased…so both sides agree the media is biased. The media is full of hyper biased opinion that doesn’t link to fact !!! Very little is published or broadcast of facts. Used to be the press reported the facts and the people could write in their opinion. Now media skips the facts and the people’s opinion and simply broadcasts whatever factless opinion the owner wants shoved down the people’s throat to sway political elections. I have to admire Mr. Trump for saying the press should not get away with slander and libel and being willing to take on task.
Everything that the LIBERAL LAME STREAM MAFIA MEDIA Spew….is PURE PROPAGANDA…..We no longer have Journalists….They have become URINALISTS…And everything they spew or print…NEEDS TO BE FLUSHED to the CESSPOOL….
Freedom-
i’m right partial to “presstitutes,” a made-up word which aptly describes CCMSM “reporters,” in my view; hell, Anderson Cooper was caught, more than once, using “green-screen” tech to pretend he was on-site! Then there are a couple of women “reporters” pretending they’re at different locations, when the SAME BUS passes each of them in the background.
It’s bad out there these days. They call evil, good, and good, evil…and expect the Sheeple to believe it and act according to their lies and manipulations.
I miss Jon Stewart on The Daily Show; either he or his staff were EXPERT in detecting BS, then making fun of it.
All these SO CALLED “FACT CHECKING” Websites are run by LIBERALS….The only Facts….if you can call the LIBERAL PROPAGANDA FACTS…..are the Creations made by the Liberals to promote their DANGEROUS DESTRUCTIVE AGENDA…the REAL TRUTH is not important to them…
Oh Freedom, I wait with great anticipation for you to reveal the REAL TRUTH to us. But please wait until your mind has been freed from the grip of delusion.
I would have seated in the front row Lewinsky, Flowers, Paula Jones, the woman that was 12 when she was raped and HRC took the other side, and the woman that lost her son at Benghazi, David Pertrais, and the sailor that’s in jail for taking pictures of the submarine he was on. That should tweek her out. Just for fun I would let Bob Uecker sit in the front row.
In California the “news” (TV, newspapers … all of them) media reports everything in a
biased way to favor Ms. Clinton. If she does or says something that is wrong they do not report it,
but, they jump all over anything that Mr. Trump says or does that might make him look less appealing.
It is bad enough that the DNC rigged the vote against Mr. Sanders
but to to the same with the media is DISGUSTING!
LAW5960 you appear to know why different favor the left or right . Why don’t you explain to us why the Muslims make a difference between the left and the right. Why the don’t eat with the left.
REAL HISTORY SAYS IT BEST – THIS IS WHERE THE REAL BIASES IN MEDIA COME FROM
John Hylan, Mayor of New York City, 1922
The real menace of our Republic is the invisible government, which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy legs over our cities, states and nation. At the head of this octopus are the Rockefeller–Standard Oil interests and a small group of powerful banking houses [and the Federal Reserve] generally referred to as the international bankers. The little coterie of powerful international bankers virtually run the United States government for their own selfish purposes.
These international bankers and Rockefeller–Standard Oil interests control the majority of the newspapers and magazines in this country. They use the columns of these papers to club into submission or drive out of office public officials who refuse to do the bidding of the powerful corrupt cliques which compose the invisible government. It operates under cover of a self-created screen [and] seizes our executive officers, legislative bodies, schools, courts, newspapers and every agency created for the public protection.
They practically control both parties, write political platforms, make cats paws of party leaders, use the leading men of private organizations, and resort to every device to place in nomination for high public office only such candidates as will be amenable to the dictates of corrupt big business
There is some news we can still trust. Here is a story from today’s “The Onion”:
“HEMPSTEAD, NY—Saying he would probably introduce the falsehood in his opening statement or perhaps during his response to the night’s first question, Republican nominee Donald Trump reported Monday he was planning to throw out a blatant lie about the level of crime committed by immigrants early in the first presidential debate to gauge how much he’d be allowed to get away with. “It’d be nice to know how far I can stretch the truth during this thing, so I figure I’ll toss out a complete fabrication right off the bat by saying that most crime in the U.S. is committed by illegal immigrants, and then just see what kind of pushback I get,” said Trump, adding that the moderator’s response to the patently false statement would give him a good idea of how many claims he could make up right on the spot throughout the remainder of the evening. “If they call me out on it, it’s no big deal; I’ll just know that I mostly have to stick to smaller distortions, like exaggerating unemployment and terrorism statistics or fudging my past positions on tax increases and the Iraq War. But if they let it slide, that means I can really go to town out there and say whatever I think voters will respond to.” Trump added that even if he was corrected on his initial lie, he would probably still be able to stick with it by simply repeating it over and over until it wore the moderator down.”
I’m sure it’s true, or they wouldn’t let them put it on the internet.
Since everyone knows, even the liberals, that the media is 100& left bias, what can be done about it?
“WE” can boycott the advertisers on each station or network that continues, just don’t purchase their products. Take it to the next step and write them a letter stating what you have observed, leave out the name calling and present them whatever facts that you can gather. Perhaps if enough of us take this responsibility seriously we can get some results.
I personally believe Mr. Trump is the far superior candidate. Why would anyone who knows Mrs. Clintons political and private history vote for her?
Today’s so called left-wing news media’s bias is so pervasive that it mirrors the level of pure corruption displayed by Louisiana’s Democratic leadership. Our many corrupt leaders simply spit and lie to your face in an embolden manner, then as they were caught with their proverbial panties around their ankles, they’d boldly laugh and mock you. Today’s “Drive-By” or “Pravda” news media simply mocks anyone that dares to call them out for what is being aimed down our throats as real journalism. Their mindless minions (foot soldiers) label anyone that dares to question their lies as “Faux” (for FOX) news. Wanna see a LIBERAL go ballistic or bezerk, just ask them why there is many times more right-wing radio shows than left-wing news media? I do it just to watch them scream obscenities and throw temper tantrums.
We have a criminal running for President ,and she gets away with her crimes what does that say about our country . The media is all in for her what’s that say about them . Can’t trust either of them . Lord help us our only hope..
So, who is running this country? The Mainstream Media? Can we do something about it or are we just going to sit back and complain about the unfair and bias of the media reporting of the news? It is very important that every voice is heard and our right to cast our vote on the election day is counted with all honesty and fair to select the right person to be President of this dear country America is in big trouble.
The media and the fact checkers can never be honest as long as the person reporting such issues is not for one person or the other. The only fact checker that is true and blue is your own eyes, look at the world around you and you will see the real truth, the cities that are near abandon, unemployment rates, the stock markets all you have to do is look around and if you want it to continue vote for Hillary if you want a change or at least take a chance on change vote for Trump
Touche’