Monday, January 28, 2013

On PolitiFact, Walker Usually In False Categories

Walker's fresh Pants On Fire falsehood today sent me back to check the full record. It'd been a while.

Well, if only 40% of your ratings have the word "true" somewhere in the finding because you dieseling on like you were still in talk radio, echo-chamber fact-free mode, I guess you're doing really well.

Though I suspect you'd be unhappy if your kids brought home that kind of report card and expected a pat on the back for the score.

And I'd throw the red flag and ask for a review of one "True" finding that should have been disallowed because it was way too trivial for PolitiFact's consideration in the first place:

The one awarded him for knowing that Wisconsin is called The Badger State because early miners like the one on the state flag burrowed into the ground to make a living.

Like badgers.

I'll bet that State Capitol tour guides tell visiting school children that story. It's on a par with knowing that we make a lot of cheese here, or that Wisconsin has an NFL franchise that plays in Green Bay and is not named the Bears.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

One of the native people who opposes the mine project reminds us that any flags before the present state flag would have pictured Indians.

enoughalready said...

I am wondering why you do not call out the governor for his false statements in your higher profile JS column. Or an op-ed? You obviously have the facts on your side, and Walker does deserve it.

James Rowen said...

To ER - - I will get to that. Most of my postings there are about Walker.