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Politifact does this all the time. They strawman a statement by adding on a ridiculous addition, then declare the whole thing as mostly false on a specificity.
by yonaguska 4y ago
Politifact does this all the time. They strawman a statement by adding on a ridiculous addition, then declare the whole thing as mostly false on a specificity.
In this case, the more accurate statement would be that the Whitehouse is changing the definition that they use. But they present the Twitter lowest common denominator of discourse as the "fact" to be checked.
- mjburgess 4y agoThe WH isnt changing the definition that "they" use, since they dont "use" a definition. I mean, is politifact misbehaving here when clearly, everyone who's not read their article has actually the same misunderstanding about the issue? That does seem to warrant their view, right? The reason we care about a recession is that it's a recession. The "2-quaters" definition isn't what we care about, right? It's extremely odd to accuse the WH of misusing definitions to defend a position both consistent with the mainstream technical definition *AND* the spirit of all possible definitions. People still clinging to this criticism of the WH seem not understand why this criticism is false. It's both false *and* its misleading. T