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Old 10-17-2016, 02:00 PM   #14
Jim in CT
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Originally Posted by PaulS View Post
Apparently, the D liar lies a heck of a lot less then the R liar:

For instance, the fact-checking website PolitiFact found that of the statements by Hillary Clinton that it checked, 22 percent were completely “true” and another 28 percent were “mostly true.”
But Trump is another animal. There is no true equivalency between Trump and Clinton, or between Trump and any other politician, for that matter. Only 4 percent of Trump’s statements that PolitiFact checked were rated as completely “true” and only another 11 percent were even rated as “mostly true.” Seventy percent of Trump’s statements that the site checked were rated as “mostly false,” “false” or “pants on fire,” the site’s worse rating.

PolitiFact has examined 258 Trump statements and 255 Clinton statements and classified them on a scale ranging from “True” to “Pants on Fire.” One might quibble with some of the judgments, but they’re overwhelmingly in the ballpark. And they show two candidates living in different moral universes when it comes to truth-telling. Mr. Trump had 48 Pants on Fire ratings, Mrs. Clinton just six; the G.O.P. nominee had 89 False ratings, the Democrat 27.
And it's not possible that they picked the statements of each to get the result they wanted.

Paul, how about treatment of women? Please tell me, specifically, what is wrong with my following opinion:

The party that worships at the feet of the Clintons and the Kennedys, is in no position to wag their fingers at the way anyone else treats women.

Why is that not a valid statement, exactly?
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