Objectivity
isn’t what we get too much of in the stump speeches or in the news coverage
about this year’s almost unfathomably foreboding politicking in the
presidential campaign.
Here’s
a clear note from Nicholas Kristof of The New York times about PolitiFact, the Tampa
Bay Times’ Pulitzer Prize-winning fact-checking enterprise:
Hillary
Clinton is telling the truth in her campaign statements, and the other
principal candidates aren’t. Plain and simple.
PolitiFact
says 95 percent of the Clinton statements it has reviewed are true or mostly
true.
For
Bernie Sanders, the number is 46 percent. Half of what he says really isn’t
true.
On
the GOP side, the numbers are: Kasich, 33 percent; Cruz, 23 percent, and Trump,
12 percent.
Put
it in round numbers: 9 out of 10 times, what Trump says isn’t true.
If
this were the main lineup in another country’s election, what would you be
thinking?
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