Rachel Maddow Goes Nuclear On PolitiFact: ‘You Are A Disaster’
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow — who has never quite been a fan of PolitiFact — took the fact-checking site to task Tuesday night, specifically going after its decision to describe Florida Senator Marco Rubio‘s recent comment that the majority of Americans are conservative as being “Mostly True.”
RELATED: Rachel Maddow To Fact-Checking Site PolitiFact: ‘You Are Fired’
In determining the “truthiness” of Rubio’s comment, PolitiFact looked at The Gallup Poll’s 2011 results on the matter, which saw 40 percent of Americans describing themselves as conservative versus 21 percent who describe themselves as liberal, and 35 percent identifying as moderate. “In Gallup’s poll,” PolitiFact correctly notes, “the number [of conservatives] has never crossed the 50 percent threshold.” And dividing up the independent votership in terms of right-leaning and left-leaning Americans, PolitiFact adds, sees a pretty much even split between the two groups.
And yet… PolitiFact deemed Rubio’s “Mostly True.” Which preetttyyyyy much made Maddow lose her [bleep].
Seriously! Claim A: False! Claim B: False! Overall PolitiFact rating: “Mostly True”! PolitiFact, please leave the building. Do not bother turning off the lights when you leave; we will need them on to clean up the mess you have left behind you as you are leaving.
PolitiFact, you are a disaster.
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