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Primemuscle:
--- Quote from: Dos Equis on May 07, 2018, 10:25:49 AM ---Pretty funny. Who is checking the fact checkers?
Snopes.com Slams Babylon Bee Satirists as 'False' for Cosby-Planned Parenthood Joke
By Tim Graham | May 5, 2018
Our News Analysis Division has given this fact checker a rating of:
Deeply Distorted Deeply Distorted
The completely humorless fact-checkers at Snopes.com are trashing the satire site Babylon Bee again as “False.” The target is a hilarious send-up of Planned Parenthood claiming that only three percent of their services are abortions (about a third of a million deaths a year).
They offered this satirical Cecile Richards quote after Bill Cosby was convicted of sexual assault:
“Look, guys, let’s keep this in perspective,” she said in a press conference held at Planned Parenthood’s New York offices. “Cosby provided many needed services, like laughter, stand-up comedy, and a solid sitcom. You can’t paint him with the broad brush of ‘sexual offender’ just because a very small percentage of his activities were horrifying and abusive.”
The Snopes headline was:
Did Planned Parenthood Defend Bill Cosby?
Reports that the nonprofit organization defended the comedian after his felony sexual assault conviction stemmed from a Christian-themed satire site.
Snopes then explained:
The Babylon Bee is an entertainment web site with long history of publishing satirical articles. In this case, the web site appears to be spoofing an often-quoted statistic about the nonprofit organization; although many people may equate it with abortion, Planned Parenthood’s annual report states that these procedures only make up 3 percent of the medical services that they provide:
Then, for “facts,” Snopes helpfully provides a Planned Parenthood pie chart of their purported 2016 division of services. They failed to note that the Washington Post Fact Checker gave that statistic "Three Pinocchios."
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/tim-graham/2018/05/05/snopescom-slams-babylon-bee-satirists-false-cosby-joke
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Or so says Tim Graham at News Busters, which is a publication with a strong conservative bias.
Dos Equis:
--- Quote from: Primemuscle on January 30, 2019, 01:21:03 PM ---Or so says Tim Graham at News Busters, which is a publication with a strong conservative bias.
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He didn't just say it. He proved it with their own links. You didn't read the article.
chaos:
--- Quote from: Dos Equis on January 30, 2019, 01:29:29 PM ---He didn't just say it. He proved it with their own links. You didn't read the article.
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He didn't read the article, he didn't watch the video of the injun trying to intimidate the teenager. He's not the type of guy that deals in facts that don't fit his liberal masters agenda.
Primemuscle:
--- Quote from: Dos Equis on January 30, 2019, 01:29:29 PM ---He didn't just say it. He proved it with their own links. You didn't read the article.
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It's already been established, you and I have a different concept of what proof is. And no, I didn't read his entire article, just like I don't read the Inquirer at the market checkout.
Dos Equis:
--- Quote from: Primemuscle on January 30, 2019, 06:26:57 PM ---It's already been established, you and I have a different concept of what proof is. And no, I didn't read his entire article, just like I don't read the Inquirer at the market checkout.
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Then why the heck are you commenting about its accuracy?? You're making a fool of yourself. You're smarter than that.
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