Politifact, you're fired
>>> america, behold! an empirical statement of fact from the president of the united states .
>> in the six months before i took office, we lost nearly 4 million jobs. and we lost another 4 million before our policies were in full effect. those are the facts. but so are these. in the last 22 months, businesses have created more than 3 million jobs. last year, they created the most jobs since 2005 .
>> in the last 22 months, businesses have created more than 3 million jobs. last year they created the most jobs since 2005 . that's what he said. so the self-proclaimed fact-checking news site, politifact, decided to fact check this claim by the president. politifact describes itself as a nonpartisan journalism enterprise. they fact check wihat politicians and public figures say and then they rate the statements with this thingy. they call it the truthometer. so politifact looked into this part of the president's speech. "in the last 22 months, businesses have created more than 3 million jobs. last year they created the most jobs since 2005 ." they went to the bureau of labor statistics to figure this out, i don't know if they looked at this particular report from the bureau of labor statistics , but within about 15 seconds of google, we found this and you'd find it too. from a couple weeks back, january 6th , 2012 , in this report, the bureau says, since january 2010 , quote, the private sector has added 2.2 million jobs. so that's 22 months. politifact came to the same conclusion. so put a check mark next to that part. it checks out. what the president said is true. politifact then went on to say, okay, the second part of obama 's statements, the fact that businesses made more jobs last year than any year since 2005 . turns out, that's true too. "as for whether 2011 was the best job-producing jobs since 2005 , he's right if you're counting private sector jobs." the increase in 2011 represented the highest one-year total since 2005 . so to sum up, president says thing "a" and thing "b." politico looks into it and decides that thing "a" and thing "b" as said by the president as true. so they rate the things half true. quoting politifact, " obama is correct on both counts, when using private sector jobs numbers." probably why he said businesses, right. "but he went too far when he implicitly credited his administration's policies. so we rate the statement half true." when he implicitly credited his administration's policies.
>> businesses have created more than 3 million jobs.
>>> politifact, what is wrong with you? you think the president calls himself businesses, like it's a nickname for himself. you think he look himself in the mirror and says, hey, businesses, looking good.
>> businesses have created more than 3 million jobs.
>> what are you talking about? after the economist jared bernstein and half of the english-speaking internet lol'd for politicfact for screwing this up today, politifact went back and revised their initial finding. they said this, "our initial half true rating was based upon an interpretation that obama was crediting his policies for the jobs increases. but we've concluded that he was not making that linkage as strongly as we initially believed." okay, so now we're back to something that calls itself politifact, fact checking the president saying thing "a" and thing "b," both of which politifact says are true. what is their chaseened revised new rating for their fact check of the president saying two things that they admit are true? what's their new rating? mostly true! mostly true. politifact, you are fired. you are a mess. you are fired. you are undermining the definition of the word "fact" in the english language by pretending to it in your name. the english language wants its word back. you are an embarrassment. you sully the reputation of anyone who sites you as an authority on factishness, let alone fact. you are
