PolitiFact Is to Fact What Pravda Was to Truth

[Revmitchell]

During a recent broadcast, I said that once Elon Musk takes control of Twitter, "Twitter will be flooded with hate, and a lot of it will come from people on the Left who want to show how hate-filled it is. It's like their race-hoax industry. If you see a noose on a college dorm of a black student, the odds are overwhelming that the noose was put there by a black student. If you see the N-word on a dormitory building, the odds are overwhelming that a black student actually did that. We're filled with race hoaxes."

One of the better-known self-proclaimed fact-checkers, PolitiFact, declared my claim "false."

They offered no refutation of what I said and provided no examples of nooses or the N-word on campuses perpetrated by white supremacists. Instead, they made a self-defeating argument: "Experts who track hate crimes told PolitiFact that there isn't even a nationwide data source that Prager could have used to pin down the number of incidents -- real or fake -- that specifically involved hanging a noose or scrawling the racist insult on college buildings or grounds."

So, if there is no such database, how could PolitiFact declare what I said "false"? At most, they could say "maybe true, maybe false."

Then they quote a man who devotes his professional life to lying about how racist America is: Brian Levin, director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino. "Mr. Prager is long on hyperbole and bigotry and short on facts," said Levin. "What Prager claimed 'is a lie.'"

PolitiFact Is to Fact What Pravda Was to Truth

 

[Van]

During a recent broadcast, I said that once Elon Musk takes control of Twitter, "Twitter will be flooded with hate, and a lot of it will come from people on the Left who want to show how hate-filled it is. It's like their race-hoax industry. If you see a noose on a college dorm of a black student, the odds are overwhelming that the noose was put there by a black student. If you see the N-word on a dormitory building, the odds are overwhelming that a black student actually did that. We're filled with race hoaxes."

One of the better-known self-proclaimed fact-checkers, PolitiFact, declared my claim "false."

They offered no refutation of what I said and provided no examples of nooses or the N-word on campuses perpetrated by white supremacists. Instead, they made a self-defeating argument: "Experts who track hate crimes told PolitiFact that there isn't even a nationwide data source that Prager could have used to pin down the number of incidents -- real or fake -- that specifically involved hanging a noose or scrawling the racist insult on college buildings or grounds."

So, if there is no such database, how could PolitiFact declare what I said "false"? At most, they could say "maybe true, maybe false."

Then they quote a man who devotes his professional life to lying about how racist America is: Brian Levin, director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino. "Mr. Prager is long on hyperbole and bigotry and short on facts," said Levin. "What Prager claimed 'is a lie.'"

PolitiFact Is to Fact What Pravda Was to Truth

Insightful and informative! We hear the fear mongers and race-baters hurl charges non-stop, but they are mostly "race hoaxes."