Politifact Backs Up Bill Clinton On 1999 Glass Steagall Partial Repeal

[DirkGently]

18. Politifact lies continually. They are known for this.

Are people not aware of the fact "Politifact" is on a mission to lie about Democrats and liberals?

It's been this way for a while now.

In January 2012, commentators such as Maddow and Daily Kos criticized PolitiFact for rating a statement in President Obama's State of the Union Address about private sector job growth as "Half True" despite acknowledging that the statement was factually correct. PolitiFact initially rated it this way because his statement appeared to imply that his policies were responsible for the job growth, but after further review, PolitiFact upgraded the rating to "Mostly True" after concluding that Obama wasn't crediting his own policies as strongly as first thought.[5]

In February 2010, PolitiFact.com rated President Obama's statement that the Recovery Act had saved or created 2 million jobs in the United States as "half true", stating that the real figure was 1 million according to several independent studies.[31] Economist Brian Riedl of the conservative Heritage Foundation responded that such a statement "belongs in an opinion editorial – not a fact check", since "there is no way to determine how the economy would have performed without a stimulus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PolitiFact.com

Politifact's 2011 "Lie of the Year" was the Democratic characterization of a Republican plan to replace Medicare with private vouchers as "the end of Medicare as we know it."

Because a private voucher system would totally be just like "Medicare," if you are insane.

One version of the claim came from U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius: "Instead of improving Medicare, they would end Medicare as we know it."

Liberals reacted in anger against PolitiFact, including writers from Talking Points Memo and Slate, as well as New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, who wrote a blog post titled "Politifact, R.I.P." MSNBC's Rachel Maddow also criticized the announcement Tuesday night.

"The self-proclaimed but quickly-becoming-irrelevant website PolitiFact declared the idea that Republicans voted to end Medicare their 'Lie of the Year' for 2011," she said.

She argued PolitiFact had its own facts wrong.

"But make no mistake — what the Republicans have proposed is actually ending Medicare," Maddow said.

http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2011/12/22/144136535/with-lie-of-the-year-controversy-fact-checking-comes-under-scrutiny

In 2013, Politifact attacked Martina Navratilova's entirely true statement that "in 29 states in this country you can still get fired for not just being gay but if your employer thinks you are gay," speciously reasoning that federal workers and some municipalities have some protections in those states.

They called Navratilova's entirely true statement "half true" based on this nonsense.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2013/05/08/rachel-maddow-pans-politifact-again/

http://wonkette.com/515444/politifact-why-is-martina-navratilova-lying-by-saying-all-these-true-things

Politifact is full of shit.

And repealing Glass-Steagall, along with a raft of other de-regulation, contributed signficantly to the Wall Street mortgage-backed securities scam that drained $4 trillion in middle-class wealth out of people's homes and into their pockets.