When PolitiFact posted an article from the Neiman Journalism Lab, a report on a sort of PolitiFact 2-Day Reality Show, it included the photo below, I couldn’t help but see what my conservative counterpart might do with it. Here’s my prediction: Bryan White now “thinks” he has some new evidence on which to base his claim that Bill Adair, the head of PolitiFact, must be liberally biased. Here’s my educated guess:
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| Yep, Adair's liberally biased! |
That photo of Adair (right ) has an Obama cardboard likeness behind him, so Adair must therefore support Obama. Plus it appears Adair has given him a swag PolitiFact baseball cap. Not slung over Obama's head misshapenly, but to represent a "gift" from PolitiFact.
In the interview Adair says part of his inspiration to create PolitiFact came from when former Senator (formerly Democratic) Zell Miller “turned on” John Kerry at the Republican National Convention in 2004 and presented a highly misleading message of Kerry’s Viet Nam service—“...I didn't do anything about it,” said Adair. So, he wants to help the Democrats, then!
And this entire matter of "adding more structure" to discerning a Pants on Fire in response to criticisms—it must be that Adair either read White's pseudo-research paper…or it relates to that PolitiFact Virginia debacle. Either way, White’s blog must surely be making Adair nervous.
To which I say—I think Adair is setting White up. (LOL)
The reality is that cardboard cutout tells us nothing about Adair’s political affiliation or “voting history.” This is reasoning akin to saying those journalists who attend the annual Whitehouse Correspondence Dinner are Democrats because Obama is there--many of the same people were in attendance when Bush was president, does that mean they were Republicans back then? Obama has been president almost four years, so I’m guessing someone gave the cut-out to him as a joke. The cap slung over it shows the humor of it.
Note: I composed the above on Tuesday, August 21. Unfortunately, I did not post it in time to prove my prediction correct, because White had this post on Facebook the morning of August 22:
Really? Fellow conspiracy theorist Dyberg had to point that out? Yea, right. We'll wait and see what he does on one of this blogs.
6 comments:
I think that as a mainstream journalist, Bill Adair is biased in favor of facts, and facts are usually biased in favor of Democrats.
Bryan did blog as predicted based on the Obama cut-out in the picture.
http://politi-psychotics.blogspot.com/2012/08/politifact-detractors-prediction.html
Or, it could be said that Republican talking points are just too easy to debunk, so some people have to attack the source.
I will agree that this is ridiculous as any evidence of a bias at PolitiFact.
However, this is immaterial. Bill Adair is probably a Democrat or Republican. Everyone has their personal biases. What matters is whether or not they strive to be objective in their reporting. And his article completely boils down to speculation. I especially like this one:
"It's nice that Phelps didn't see any obvious bias, but who is he kidding? The PolitiFact staff knew he was observing them, didn't they? I think probably PolitiFact doesn't deliberately slant its fact checks,"
Wow. So PolitiFact is just lazy about attempting to be objective until Phelps comes in and observes... It just goes to show you those who already decided PolitiFact was biased before they did any critical thinking on the subject will find any lame excuse to explain away contradictory evidence. It is essentially the conspiracy mindset.
That's why I say Adair is setting him up. I'm feeding on his "conspiracy mindset." I'm sure Adair knows it's irrelevant.
Adair won't reveal his voting history but gets his picture taken with an Obama cutout behind him in his office.
That makes complete sense.
lol
Need I say more!
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