Big Shock: Republicans Lie Three Times More Than Democrats
In almost every instance if you mention to a Fox viewer that what he or she is watching is full of absurdities and fabrications, instead of debating the topic, they inevitably mention their ratings. If ratings is comparable to truth, then our society has been astoundingly dumbed down. A Smart Politics analysis of more than 500 PolitiFact stories over the last year finds that statements made by Republican politicians have been rated as false at more than three times the rate of those made by their Democratic counterparts. Leading the way for the GOP with the largest number of false statements: Sarah Palin with eight, Michele Bachmann with seven, and John Boehner, Mike Pence, and the National Republican Congressional Committee with four each.
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