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Absolutely. Last time I looked they refused to update their fact check about Nathan Phillips false claims of Vietnam service.

by Zecar 8y ago

eli 8y ago
What part is wrong?
- Zecar 8y ago
  The part where he is on video claiming to be a Vietnam vet.
int_19h 8y ago
Here's the takeaway on that page now: "It’s difficult to determine at this point whether Phillips has deliberately misrepresented the nature of his service, whether he has been so vague and ambiguous in many of his descriptions (unintentionally or otherwise) that misinterpretations have entered his narrative, or whether he has tried to be accurate but may have just occasionally slipped up in his many, many hours of conversation and sometimes neglected to include the qualifiers about his service that he has used in many other videos and press interviews. Nonetheless, at times it has certainly sounded as though Phillips was trying to foster the impression that he had both served during the Vietnam War and had been deployed to Vietnam at some point during his service, even if he didn’t literally say so." Which part of it is inaccurate?
- Zecar 8y ago
  > Which part of it is inaccurate? ?? I don't know, perhaps the part where the guy is literally on video claiming to be a vietnam vet? You folks are utterly baffling. But go ahead and downvote. https://twitter.com/kerpen/status/1088285433673515009 https://twitter.com/kerpen/status/1088285433673515009
  - int_19h 8y ago
    The issue at hand wasn't whether he ever misrepresented himself like that, but whether he did so in the context of this particular event - i.e. when he was being interviewed. I'm not aware of any video evidence of that, nor did any outlets referenced the video you linked to as their basis for the claims that he's a Vietnam vet. The reason why they did so is because he told them that he is a "Vietnam era vet", which is misleading (as Snopes rightly points out), but not outright false.
Pharmakon 8y ago
What problem do you find there? I also hope that your response to a request for support in favor of a very strong claim isn’t to vaguely reference a single example. The fact that the example seems nonexistent makes it a bit worse, but not by much.
- Zecar 8y ago
  The part where he is on video claiming to be a Vietnam vet.

Absolutely. Last time I looked they refused to update their fact check about Nathan Phillips false claims of Vietnam service.

by Zecar 8y ago

Absolutely. Last time I looked they refused to update their fact check about Nathan Phillips false claims of Vietnam service.

eli 8y ago

What part is wrong?

Zecar 8y ago
The part where he is on video claiming to be a Vietnam vet.

int_19h 8y ago

Here's the takeaway on that page now: "It’s difficult to determine at this point whether Phillips has deliberately misrepresented the nature of his service, whether he has been so vague and ambiguous in many of his descriptions (unintentionally or otherwise) that misinterpretations have entered his narrative, or whether he has tried to be accurate but may have just occasionally slipped up in his many, many hours of conversation and sometimes neglected to include the qualifiers about his service that he has used in many other videos and press interviews. Nonetheless, at times it has certainly sounded as though Phillips was trying to foster the impression that he had both served during the Vietnam War and had been deployed to Vietnam at some point during his service, even if he didn’t literally say so." Which part of it is inaccurate?

Zecar 8y ago
> Which part of it is inaccurate? ?? I don't know, perhaps the part where the guy is literally on video claiming to be a vietnam vet? You folks are utterly baffling. But go ahead and downvote. https://twitter.com/kerpen/status/1088285433673515009 https://twitter.com/kerpen/status/1088285433673515009
- int_19h 8y ago
  The issue at hand wasn't whether he ever misrepresented himself like that, but whether he did so in the context of this particular event - i.e. when he was being interviewed. I'm not aware of any video evidence of that, nor did any outlets referenced the video you linked to as their basis for the claims that he's a Vietnam vet. The reason why they did so is because he told them that he is a "Vietnam era vet", which is misleading (as Snopes rightly points out), but not outright false.

Pharmakon 8y ago

What problem do you find there? I also hope that your response to a request for support in favor of a very strong claim isn’t to vaguely reference a single example. The fact that the example seems nonexistent makes it a bit worse, but not by much.

Zecar 8y ago
The part where he is on video claiming to be a Vietnam vet.