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My favorite part was when they immediately fact-checked the statement that US soldiers are not currently deployed in any active combat zones, which not only dem

My favorite part was when they immediately fact-checked the statement that US soldiers are not currently deployed in any active combat zones, which not only demonstrated the even-handedness of their fact-checking rigor but also proved that truth—not partisan media bias or running cover for the current regime—is and should always be the ultimate goal of any media fact-checking initiative. Oh wait that didn't happen lol

Spivak 2y ago
NPR called her out for this and gave it "mostly false" despite it being true but misleading and required a confirmation from the DoD. What did you want to happen? "Just a moment Vice President Harris, I need to get on the phone with Kirby to confirm this before we continue." https://www.wusf.org/politics-issues/2024-09-13/politifact-fl-harris-debate-remarks-us-military-combat-zones-misleading https://www.wusf.org/politics-issues/2024-09-13/politifact-f...
- adamrezich 2y ago
  Who cares about NPR? We were talking about ABC's "live fact-checking". Every American (and most of the rest of the world, too) who doesn't live under a rock (especially "journalists") knows that the US has had active duty military in combat zones since at least 2003—you don't need to call up the Department of Defense to fact-check that information.
  - Spivak 2y ago
    Which is what NPR is saying, that Harris was being misleading by relying on technical terms that don't match people's real-life understanding of the words. Would you have been confident enough to call that out when even NPR after the fact can't get a definitive answer to whether her literal words were correct? They only checked like three things the whole debate that were unambiguously false.
    - adamrezich 2y ago
      Why have you outsourced your common sense to NPR?
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- willcipriano 2y ago
  How much you want to bet that if the omnibus spending bill isn't passed, good old state media NPR says something about our fighting men going unpaid. Schrodinger's war.

Spivak 2y ago

NPR called her out for this and gave it "mostly false" despite it being true but misleading and required a confirmation from the DoD. What did you want to happen? "Just a moment Vice President Harris, I need to get on the phone with Kirby to confirm this before we continue." https://www.wusf.org/politics-issues/2024-09-13/politifact-fl-harris-debate-remarks-us-military-combat-zones-misleading https://www.wusf.org/politics-issues/2024-09-13/politifact-f...

adamrezich 2y ago
Who cares about NPR? We were talking about ABC's "live fact-checking". Every American (and most of the rest of the world, too) who doesn't live under a rock (especially "journalists") knows that the US has had active duty military in combat zones since at least 2003—you don't need to call up the Department of Defense to fact-check that information.
- Spivak 2y ago
  Which is what NPR is saying, that Harris was being misleading by relying on technical terms that don't match people's real-life understanding of the words. Would you have been confident enough to call that out when even NPR after the fact can't get a definitive answer to whether her literal words were correct? They only checked like three things the whole debate that were unambiguously false.
  - adamrezich 2y ago
    Why have you outsourced your common sense to NPR?
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willcipriano 2y ago
How much you want to bet that if the omnibus spending bill isn't passed, good old state media NPR says something about our fighting men going unpaid. Schrodinger's war.