Somehow these last two outlets get to look more “fair and balanced” by merely bowing to the notion that the Democratic response isn’t a perfectly shaped bouquet of truth. Add up all these evaluations and Trump had 111 fact checks to Whitmer’s three.
Trump loves to boast and exaggerate, so it’s easy to throw out little “Pinocchio” ratings when Trump claims we have the lowest black unemployment rate in American history, since it’s only been measured since 1972. But it’s literally the lowest ever measured in American history. What the fact-checkers are doing is littering achievements with asterisks, trying to distract from the undeniable fact that unemployment is at record lows for blacks, Hispanics, women, the disabled and undoubtedly other groups Democrats claim to champion.
David Harsanyi at National Review offered a terrific article just taking apart The Washington Post fact check, calling these fact-checkers “janissaries of the Obama legacy.” (Buckley hat tip for the $10 word.) Harsanyi noted that The Post “mentions Obama 13 times in a piece about Trump’s speech.” What resulted was “a litany of partisan arguments masquerading as factual correctives.”
The best part was Harsanyi’s amazement at The Post’s evaluation of this Trump statement: “Thanks to our bold regulatory-reduction campaign, the United States has become the number-one producer of oil and natural gas in the world, by far.” It’s true that America became No. 1 in former President Obama’s second term. But does Obama deserve credit?
Obama ran for president promising to inhibit energy production, coal and oil. A Republican Congress and the Supreme Court foiled his plans. Harsanyi observes: “It’s quite the trick to not only censure Trump for bragging about oil and gas production but then, in the same fact check, confer on all the credit on Obama, who did everything in his power — including banning drilling on most public lands — to inhibit exploration and production.”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/bozell-graham-attack-of-the-fact-checking-clones