Who lies more Repubs or Democrats??? This guy tells us.....

[a kennedy]

Bill Adair, who started the Pulitzer Prize-winning website PolitiFact, admitted that – despite his claims over the years – he was, in fact, keeping tabs and found the GOP to be the most liberal with the truth.

In 2012, Adair was asked which party lies more by a caller on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal and claimed he “didn’t keep score.”

The former Washington Bureau Chief for the Tampa Bay Times has since left the nonprofit fact-checking company and so said he can now “talk freely” about who is more deceitful.

Appearing on Washington Journal 12 years later, as part of a media blitz to promote his new book Beyond the Big Lie, the fact checker admitted he “was lying” in 2012 to show his company was “truly nonpartisan.”

By PolitiFact’s tally, the Republican party was actually lying “far more” than the Democrats – and since then, Adair, has found the disparity between the parties has only grown.

Between 2016 to 2021, Republicans lied 55 percent of the time, compared to Democrats 31 percent of the time, according to Adair’s company’s investigations of politicians’ statements.

“I think we need to talk about it because the fact that there are so many lies coming from the Republicans, it’s really affecting our discourse,” he said on Thursday.

https://l.smartnews.com/p-e56bw/twtxjS

[Dennis Donovan]

1. "31 percent of the time"? About what?

"Between 2016 to 2021, Republicans lied 55 percent of the time, compared to Democrats 31 percent of the time, according to Adair’s company’s investigations of politicians’ statements."

Not about the big things Trump and Vance lie about.

[Shermann]

3. I'm guessing 31 percent of the statements which they investigate

For them to fact-check a statement in the first place it presumably must raise suspicion in some way.

[Midnight Writer]

7. Makes me wonder how the hell Republicans told the truth 45% of the time.

Even before Trump, you could never trust anything a Republican said. Nixon, Reagan, the Bushes, their mouthpieces like Rush Limbaugh. They have always been running scams and con games on the American people.

Oddly, the people they have victimized the most are the people who support them the most.

[Permanut]

2. I'd like to see evidence of the 31%.

[BootinUp]

4. Was he lying then or now or both times? nt

[Beartracks]

5. Why would he not be able to call a spade a spade while at the Tampa Bay Times?

Not telling the truth is not "non-partisan" and not journalism.

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[peggysue2]

6. Pretty much says it all on today's journalistic ethos

Truth is a partisan subject, replaced by bothsiderism in our Brave New World.

Silence = Complicity. Talking freely when you have little to lose is a coward's stance.

But please, keep writing those books as the world tips into the abyss.

[Ferrets are Cool]

8. Repug lies get people killed.