Stating opinions as fact invites checking them as facts. - Edit 3
Before modification by Joel at 01/09/2012 03:02:10 PM
They hit Romney for stating Obama went on an apology tour after taking office and their “fact” was he never said actually "I'm sorry". He went on the tour and many Americans felt that in affect his was apologizing for America and considered it an apology tour. That opinion really is not open to fact checking. He was out there trying to undo he felt Bush had done by in effect apologizing for the last eight years of US foreign policy. The man bowed to the Japanese emperor and made theater out hitting the reset button with Russia. I don't need a fact checker to tell me he went on an apology tour because I watched it happen.
If they were only concerned about the facts then they would have no problem with what Ryan said about the GM plant because it was all factually true but in their OPINION he was implying that the plant was shut down after Obama took office. Once again a fact that happens to be true and they ignore the fact that after making those states and then buying GM with tax payer money Obama went ahead and closed the plant. But either way Obama said with government assistance that would be open for 100 years and then after spending billions of tax payers’ dollars they stayed closed so Obama's statements and his failure to backup what he said is fact even if the OPINION of some fact checkers Ryan was being misleading but they ignore the FACT that Obama did tell those the plant would stay open if the government helped and the government helped and the plant closed down. Obama was the one being misleading and Ryan calling him on that is legitimate even if he didn’t lay out the whole story.
If they were only concerned about the facts then they would have no problem with what Ryan said about the GM plant because it was all factually true but in their OPINION he was implying that the plant was shut down after Obama took office. Once again a fact that happens to be true and they ignore the fact that after making those states and then buying GM with tax payer money Obama went ahead and closed the plant. But either way Obama said with government assistance that would be open for 100 years and then after spending billions of tax payers’ dollars they stayed closed so Obama's statements and his failure to backup what he said is fact even if the OPINION of some fact checkers Ryan was being misleading but they ignore the FACT that Obama did tell those the plant would stay open if the government helped and the government helped and the plant closed down. Obama was the one being misleading and Ryan calling him on that is legitimate even if he didn’t lay out the whole story.
Calling Obamas foreign diplomatic efforts an "apology tour," stating it as fact, makes checking the statements factual accuracy legitimate; the claim does not pass scrutiny and should therefore not be presented as fact. Likewise, the Janesville GM plant was ordered closed before Obama ever took office; he can be criticized for subsequent promises no president could keep, but its closure is no more his fault than the Bay of Pigs invasion is. Saying, "Obama went ahead and closed the plant," is absurd, because the feds bought NON-VOTING shares granting NO voice in GM operations: Obama closed nothing, which would be true regardless of the closure date.
The fact checkers did their job, better than Ryans; if you object to them exposing false claims as just that, tell your candidates to stop making false claims.