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Bernie and Hillary Both Score Over 50 Percent on Politifact (Original Post) TomCADem Mar 2016 OP
Tells me everything I need to know.... daleanime Mar 2016 #1
Good info for the FB wars Dem2 Mar 2016 #2
The biggest donor to the school who owns the Tampa paper that Jarqui Mar 2016 #3
Whoa, Where is the Tin Foil Hat? Citing Youtube? TomCADem Mar 2016 #4

Dem2

(8,168 posts)
2. Good info for the FB wars
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 10:01 PM
Mar 2016

that we're all going to have to deal with. Well, except those lucky people who refuse to sign up.

Jarqui

(10,122 posts)
3. The biggest donor to the school who owns the Tampa paper that
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 10:32 PM
Mar 2016

runs Politifact is the Knight Corporation - by a substantial margin.

Check out "Clinton Foundation" "Knight Foundation" searches on their various sites.

http://knightfoundation.org/press-room/press-release/knight-foundation-announces-200000-support-clinton/

http://knightfoundation.org/search/?q=clinton+foundation

https://www.clintonfoundation.org/search/node/Knight%20Foundation

There are doing a bunch of stuff together.

On the Knight Foundation Blog:

How PolitiFact will help fact-check the 2016 campaign
http://knightfoundation.org/blogs/knightblog/2015/12/18/how-politifact-will-help-fact-check-2016-campaign/

Aaron Sharockman is executive director of PolitiFact, a project of the Tampa Bay Times that has received previous Knight Foundation support. Today Knight is announcing $140,000 in new support to help fact-check claims made by the 2016 presidential candidates on the Medium publishing platform.


I'll stop there for the moment. I'm not into conspiracy theories. I like real facts and evidence without imagination. But am I the only one who thinks that smells bad?

Hillary Clinton who may be the most dishonest politician in US history has better numbers telling the truth than Bernie Sanders, who is the most honest politician I've encountered in my 50 years of following politics. C'mon. Let's get a tad real here!

Go to youtube and put in Hillary Clinton lying and Bernie Sanders lying. Then watch and look at the number of pages of videos. Hillary has about 350 videos exclusively on her lying. Bernie a tiny fraction.

Sadly, compared with Politifact, I think Youtube has the stat accuracy on this issue hands down. Youtube stats are a lot closer to the truth than Politifact's cherry picking of statements to check.

There was common tie to the Clinton Foundation and Knight Foundation & Techo (Un Techo Para Mi País).
https://www.clintonfoundation.org/search/node/techo
http://www.knightfoundation.org/search/?q=Techo

Techo got a few H1B visas from the State department -some after Hillary's departure
http://www.myvisajobs.com/Visa-Sponsor/American-Friends/1134900.htm

The chairman of Knight helped Hillary with something as Secretary of State.

It kind of mushrooms some and goes on. I didn't pursue it because I'd have to write a book to explain it all ...

And there is absolutely no proof here. All circumstantial stuff.

But the State Department, the Clinton Foundation and circumstantial stuff seems to happen a heck of a lot with Hillary. It smells.

TomCADem

(17,387 posts)
4. Whoa, Where is the Tin Foil Hat? Citing Youtube?
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 11:57 PM
Mar 2016

Heck, why not World Net Daily or Free Republic?

Do you have any other nonpartisan factchecks that support the idea that Bernie Sanders or Hillary Clinton are lying more than either Ted Cruz or Donald Trump, which is the point of my post.

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