Pelosi twists an old McConnell quote and calls him racistSenate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said in 2010 that he wanted to make Barack Obama a "one-term" president....
| |  | | Democracy Dies in Darkness | | | | | | | | | | The truth behind the rhetoric | | | | | | Pelosi twists an old McConnell quote and calls him racist Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said in 2010 that he wanted to make Barack Obama a "one-term" president. This quote has riled Democrats for years, and they haven't let McConnell forget it. Democratic officials bring it up all the time to criticize the top Senate Republican as a rank obstructionist, often getting the words right but messing up the timing or the context. In an interview with MSNBC, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) got the timing of McConnell's 2010 interview with National Journal mostly right. But she took his comments far out of context and called them "racist." That's a new twist. We don't fact-check opinions. But Pelosi's paraphrase bears little resemblance to what McConnell said in 2010 — he even said he did not want Obama to fail — and we are flummoxed how this morphed into a "racist" statement. McConnell was a tough customer for Obama, his political opposite, but they did cooperate when their interests were in sync. We gave Pelosi's baseless and incendiary charge Four Pinocchios. |  | | Enjoy this newsletter? Forward it to someone else who'd like it! If this e-mail was forwarded to you, sign up here for the weekly newsletter. Hear something fact-checkable? Send it here, we'll check it out. | | A reality check on Brett Kavanaugh's time at the White House Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh was a top White House adviser to President George W. Bush for nearly five years after 9/11, and now that he's been nominated to the Supreme Court, Democrats and Republicans have been arguing over several issues involving his work for the president. Republican senators say Kavanaugh's records from his days as Bush's staff secretary are not relevant to his nomination because the staff secretary is more or less a "traffic cop" who decides which memos and documents the president sees. But that's not the whole story. The staff secretary has subtle but important influence on policy issues and debates. Democratic senators say Kavanaugh gave inaccurate testimony in 2006, at his confirmation hearing for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. It looks like Kavanaugh left out some relevant details, but the Justice Department declined to investigate whether he made false statements after reviewing the matter. | | | No filter It's refreshing to see that, despite the big divide in political views, a wide majority of Americans still seems to agree that we should all be reading the same news and information online. That's according to a new survey by Gallup and the Knight Foundation. Websites such as Google and social media platforms such as Facebook learn a lot about their users and have the ability to show them targeted content. But the Gallup and Knight Foundation survey found that 73 percent of respondents want to be shown the same topics as everyone else, and 80 percent want them to show the same articles from the same news organizations to everyone. | | Scroll down for this week's Pinocchio roundup. — Salvador Rizzo | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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