Romney had an ad mentioning how unemployment at the end of his tenure as governor of Massachusetts was 4.7%, and Politifact, the fact-checking site, looked into it, found that the unemployment was 4.7% when Romney left office, so it rated the statement… “Half True.”
Since a lot of us are a bit tired of these editorialists trying to disguise themselves as objective fact-checkers, we had some fun on Twitter coming up with other Politifact ratings. Here were the ones I came up with:
POLITIFACT RATINGS:
Can’t say “true” because that would just encourage them.
Tralse
Shut up, wingnut, and take your “objective facts” with you!
Completely and utterly false, but he meant well so “Half True”
Can’t quite say “true” because then we’d be agreeing with — you know — those people.
False, because it goes against “Obama winning reelection” which we rated as “True”.
True but not correct.
False, because we decided this truth doesn’t matter.
False, because if we said otherwise we might lose a party invite.
Yeah, all the facts line up, but I just can’t quite say “True” for some reason and I have to go with my gut.
True, but that’s not what your mom said last night.
False, because you can’t handle the truth.
Somewhere between “true but false” and “false but true”.
Isn’t not the opposite of untrue.