I'm surprised you'd even watch, since you don't care what he says. Perhaps you're turning over a new leaf, in which case you should be interested in fact checking his show, and his presidency.Trump is killing the State of the Union address. — NOS4A2
I'm surprised you'd even watch, since you don't care what he says. Perhaps you're turning over a new leaf, in which case you should be interested in fact checking his show, and his presidency.
Imagine going through life running to a fact-check site to let some journalist tell you what to think. You’d have to have some neurosis for that. — NOS4A2
This makes no sense. If someone claims to have done something I might not want to just take them at their word – and I can't just clairvoyantly assess the truth of their claim; instead I look to see if anyone who has (more) knowledge of the matter can confirm or deny their claims.
One can easily go look at the data himself. One reason one might want to go to a journalist is to have his biases confirmed. — NOS4A2
There's a lot of things to cover. Finding the raw data for each claim could take a long time – if indeed it's something that can be found with Google (or that I know how to find with Google). It's perfectly rational to refer to someone else who's done the heavy lifting to save me time.
It's much easier to ask my science teacher about some science question than to search through academic journals.
I’d understand asking a journalist questions about journalism, sure. But running to them for fact-checks has become the sine qua non for anti-Trumpism. It’s the get-out-of-thinking free card. — NOS4A2
One can easily go look at the data himself. — NOS4A2
I prefer to know the truth, and there's no better way than to see what both sides have to say. During Obama's presidency, I'd often listen to Hannity, Limbaugh, and even Levin. I wouldn't accept what they say verbatim, but they occasionally had a valid criticism. (I realize this isn't quite the same thing, since none of these guys are journalists).Imagine going through life running to a fact-check site to let some journalist tell you what to think. — NOS4A2
You seem content to accept whatever Trump says, which seems pretty crazy to me.
I thought it was a great speech... — NOS4A2
The hivemind characterizes it as a "tantrum."
[Trump] will see this as absolute vindication for everything he has done and how he has done it,” Ryan Crocker, a six-time U.S. ambassador who served under Republican and Democratic presidents, told me. Invoking an old dictum along the lines of “If you strike at the king, it’s best not to miss".
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