@hightor,
No, I think quibble is appropriate here as they are using the "facts" that better support them rather than the President.
Like this one for example>
Quote:Trump said the U.S. has spent $6 trillion in the Middle East and “with this $6 trillion we could have rebuilt our country.” The amount spent so far is $1.7 trillion, according to the Defense Department.
Their "facts" are true, but so are Trumps. "What?! Are you drunk or something?" No. They are cherry picking facts based on the story they want to tell.
Brown University has other facts that you might want to look at.
Quote:As of August 2016, the US has already appropriated, spent, or taken on obligations to spend more than $3.6 trillion in current dollars on the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Syria and on Homeland Security (2001through fiscal year 2016). To this total should be added the approximately $65 billion in dedicated war spending the Department of Defense and State Department have requested for the next fiscal year, 2017, along with an additional nearly $32 billion requested for the Department of Homeland Security in 2017, and estimated spending on veterans in future years. When those are included, the total
US budgetary cost of the wars reaches $4.79 trillion.
Yeah, $4.79 trillion isn't $6 Trillion, but it's also not the $1.7 trillion that factcheck uses either. See how "facts" can be different though? When you cherry pick your "facts" you lose credibility and I like what factcheck does. I just wish they had factcheckers checking their facts sometimes.
Especially when their very next quibble states
Quote:He cherry-picked the findings of a recent report, saying it found immigration costs U.S. taxpayers “billions of dollars a year.” The report said immigration “has an overall positive impact on long-run economic growth.”
THEY JUST DID THE SAME THING! Thus, I say quibble.
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Quote:As evidence of the poor economic “circumstances we inherited,” the president said “94 million Americans are out of the labor force.”
That’s true as far as it goes
Let me repeat their last bit there...
That’s true as far as it goes Why did they feel the need to continue from there I have no idea.
The rest of their stuff is even worse. Complaing about things being vague and such nonsense. I thought they were FACT chackers, not political opinionists. They lose more credibility when they do these sorts of things. Either check facts or don't but at least be honest to yourselves.
