Morning Joe is fact checking Trump's SOTU

[octoberlib]

Rattner said job growth was higher under Carter, Clinton and Obama than under Trump.

[NewJeffCT]

1. He's correct

Reagan has better jobs numbers as well, as did LBJ

[mnmoderatedem]

2. Donald Trump and a fact checker

make oil and water have a harmonious relationship by comparison.

[tman]

3. Great but if we rely on the media for this

we're going to lose.

[Bengus81]

5. Are we now? Yeah...some Black Senator couldn't win either

Neither could some basically unknown Gov from Arkansas...........

[tman]

9. If you think this election will be anything like the 90's or 08

I don't know what to tell you.

Trump is the most prolific liar to ever reside in the white house and he's backed up a huge all platform media campaign of pure disinformation.

This has less to do with any of the candidates and more to do with what the DNC and 'outside groups' are going to do about it.

Waiting for the media to 'factcheck' every speech will not cut it.

[uponit7771]

13. +1, US media is too lazy on this issue to push back

[Bengus81]

4. Fact checking would be the ENTIRE speech,it was all the same BS and LIES....

[octoberlib]

6. They did go through most of the speech and fact check.

I think the Democratic response to the SOTU should be fact checking Trump's speech. I like Gretchen Whitmer but the only people interested in what's going on in Michigan are people who live there. The speeches are probably written in advance, though so don't know if that's possible.

[marybourg]

7. Morning Edition on NPR

just did a bit of that, too.

[Bad Thoughts]

8. Pelosi already fact checked the speech

Right at the end.

[nuxvomica]

10. Much higher under Carter, even though the US had a third fewer people!

Yet Carter's is considered a failed presidency by that crowd.

[tavernier]

11. The guests agreed that the DNC should be getting out huge ads with those facts

right this minute, instead of letting Iowa be the story.

[gab13by13]

12. I agree,

James Carville was on MSNBC last night and he said that Tom Perez has to go.

Where was he during the Iowa debacle? Yeah, it wasn't his fault but he needed to put out a narrative for our side.