NPR annotates HRC's speech, doesn't find much B.S.

[apnu]

Here is the link.

http://www.npr.org/2016/07/28/487817725/fact-check-hillary-clintons-speech-to-the-democratic-convention-annotated?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20160728

[apnu]

1. Kick

Its a busy night with HRC love. Thought you all would enjoy seeing this.

[Festivito]

2. Oh! That is nothing but NPR buffoonery. They have NOTHING! Point after point of nothing.

First one:

We heard the man from Hope, Bill Clinton.

(Bill Clinton grew up in Hope, Ark., and The Man From Hope is the title of a biographical film shown during the 1992 Democratic National Convention.

The last line of Bill Clinton's acceptance speech in 1992 was: I end tonight where it all began for me: I still believe in a place called Hope." — Danielle Kurtzleben)

This they annotate? Huh? (Oh, I changed square braces to parentheses for internet purpose.)

Bernie inspired millions -- so they annotate what the numbers were? Huh?

Nearly 500 people applied -- It was 467! That what they annotate.

All I can guess is that they have to make it look good for their non-reading Republican Conservative backers. Who, since they cannot read will just feel good that it looks like there are points of controversy. Yikes!

[apnu]

3. I took it as a validation of the accuracy of Hillary's statements.

Yes they annotated non-controversial things. Annotation isn't fact checking exactly, its giving additional information and verifying what can be verified. If Hillary had said 600 applicants and the number was 467, then the annotation becomes a fact check and exposes a distortion. Since Hillary was pretty spot on with what data in the speech that could be verified, the annotations show, essentially, Hillary isn't a liar with data.

[glennward]

4. I found this fact check interesting. It isn't pulicized much.

[In his convention speech, Bernie Sanders said something similar, saying that 85 percent of the income gains had gone to the top 1 percent — a stat that Politifact called "half true" because it was outdated. In 2014 and 2015, they write, the 99 percent's incomes recovered, and the top 1 percent's share fell to 52 percent. — Danielle Kurtzleben]

T think people need to hear that wage recovery has been better than they are being told.