Thursday, June 8, 2017

Fact Check This

Re: 1600 Daily 6/8/17:
"'[Senator Schumer] had confused the official statistics. At the time, the 63 nominees awaiting Senate approval were in addition to the 39 confirmed – meaning that Trump had nominated 102 people to top posts overall.' - Fox News"

Guys.  Seriously.  If fact checking is "what you're reading" you are behind the times.  The nation has been fact-checking the vague superlatives of the president since his candidacy's infancy, and finding huge holes--no superlative needed.  If you want to start slinging "confused...official statistics" arrows, be prepared for the barrage that will come back at you, derived from factual evidence.  A concept as foreign to the president as coherent speech.

And to pluck such a random, inconsequential irregularity from the multitude of greater incongruities shows you are grasping at straws.  Find more to read, broaden your fact checking horizon.  Start with the waivers brought to the Ethics Office.  But don't showcase petty mistakes; it reveals your laziness when the rest of America is picking up your slack.

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