{"id":67222,"date":"2016-08-01T12:22:11","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T16:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=67222"},"modified":"2016-08-01T12:23:09","modified_gmt":"2016-08-01T16:23:09","slug":"wapo-fact-checker-says-clintoon-lied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=67222","title":{"rendered":"WaPO Fact Checker Says:  Clintoon Lied"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Clintoon recently made a public statement with which the WaPO Fact Checker took issue.\u00a0 Here\u2019s the statement:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cDirector Comey said my answers were truthful, and what I\u2019ve said is consistent with what I have told the American people, that there were decisions discussed and made to classify retroactively certain of the emails.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, the WaPO checked it out \u2013 and bluntly disagrees.\u00a0 It rates the statement as meriting \u201cFour Pinocchios\u201d.\u00a0 Their rating scale <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/fact-checker\/about-the-fact-checker\/\">can be found here<\/a><\/em>, but I\u2019ll cut to the chase:\u00a0 their definition of a statement rated \u201cFour Pinocchios\u201d is short, sweet, and to the point.\u00a0 It defines such statements as, \u201cWhoppers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In effect, the WaPO here has called Clintoon a bald-faced liar.\u00a0 Their article on the matter analyzes the topic in substantial detail; <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/fact-checker\/wp\/2016\/07\/31\/clintons-claim-that-the-fbi-director-said-her-email-answers-were-truthful\/\">it can be found here<\/a><\/em> if you\u2019re interested.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, most readers already knew that the Clintoons have significant \u201cveracity issues\u201d pretty much every time they open their mouths.\u00a0 But I think it\u2019s great to see this in print in the WaPO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clintoon recently made a public statement with which the WaPO Fact Checker took issue.\u00a0 Here\u2019s the &hellip; <a title=\"WaPO Fact Checker Says:  Clintoon Lied\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=67222\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WaPO Fact Checker Says:  Clintoon Lied<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,177,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-floggings-will-continue-until-morale-improves","category-dumbass-bullshit","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}