Michigan lawmakers trying to hem in fact checkers

[martin]

Understandable why fact checking might upset them. But there is the little problem of the First Amendment (a mistake, though, to expect a Republican lawmaker to know his country's laws), let alone the problem of when a "fact" isn't or really is a fact. We've reached a point in our awful politics where facts can be what you want them to be.



https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...fact-checkers/

[War=Peace]

Understandable why fact checking might upset them. But there is the little problem of the First Amendment (a mistake, though, to expect a Republican lawmaker to know his country's laws), let alone the problem of when a "fact" isn't or really is a fact. We've reached a point in our awful politics where facts can be what you want them to be.



https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...fact-checkers/

Garbage piece.

And *facts* have always been what people wanted them to be.

[Walt]

It is bizarre. Republicans demand the "right" to tell whatever lie they want, but then also demand the truth be carefully controlled.

[Walt]

And *facts* have always been what people wanted them to be.

That is not reality. The facts are often inconvenient, and just messy.

[War=Peace]

That is not reality. The facts are often inconvenient, and just messy.

Reality isn't reality. Facts are what people choose them to be.

True story.