Frustrated Fact-Checker: Trump’s Crime Stats ‘Mostly Accurate’
For media “fact-checkers,” Republicans are presumed to be wrong, or stupid — even when they are correct
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Seema Mehta, a Los Angeles Times correspondent covering fact-checkers during Donald Trump’s speech to the Republican National Convention Thursday evening, had to report his crime statistics as “mostly accurate.”
Her complete headline at the Times blog was: “Donald Trump’s crime stats are mostly accurate but his conclusions are a stretch.” In other words, because his facts cannot be corrected and then mocked, his policies must be ridiculed instead. --MORE...
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