{"id":24299,"date":"2014-11-12T07:23:42","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T12:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=24299"},"modified":"2014-11-12T07:23:42","modified_gmt":"2014-11-12T12:23:42","slug":"who-can-we-trust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=24299","title":{"rendered":"Who Can We Trust?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Even Snopes<\/a> doesn’t get it right all the time.<\/p>\n

Yesterday the Washington Examiner<\/a> posted a story about a recent entry on the Snopes site. Snopes is a site that many people use for fact-checking<\/a>. The entry had to do with comments made by health economist<\/a> Jonathan Gruber<\/a> last year (see rightwinggranny.com<\/a>). The comments are recorded on video and evidently later taken off of the internet (although they are still in the rightwinggranny article).<\/p>\n

The article at the Washington Examiner tells the story:<\/p>\n

Rather than giving the claim what is easily a \u201ctrue\u201d rating, the fact checking group gives it a \u201cmixture\u201d rating.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cIt appears the comments made by Gruber entered the stream of social media hot topics due to a 9 November 2014 post on the website the Daily Signal, where it was framed<\/a> as a \u2018newly surfaced video,’ \u201d the website reported. \u201cThe shorter version of the video was initially posted by the political action committee (PAC<\/a>) American<\/a> Commitment.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

American Commitment, which is not a PAC<\/a>, had also linked to the original video from UPenn<\/a> from its own YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

…Snopes fact-checkers seem unable to draw obvious conclusions about something as simple as reading a time stamp on YouTube.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWhile the newly-circulated video of Gruber’s remarks is unedited, the comments are neither recent nor complete, and whether the originating source attempted to pull them from the Internet<\/a> at one point remains unclear,\u201d the conclusion reads.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Snopes is owned by Barbara and David Mikkelson<\/a> of California<\/a>. I have no idea what their political persuasion is, but in the case of Jonathan Gruber they seem to have missed the boat. This incident is another reason every person needs to do their own research on the issues they care about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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