Okay Sarah Palin what is her Politifact Score
By dark_joev
@dark_joev (3034)
United States
October 18, 2010 9:29pm CST
Well Because of another disscusion on here I decided that maybe we should look at the 2012 hopeful for being the GOP who will be running against Obama!
Yes I am talking about Sarah Palin the former Governor of Alaska.
check out here score and tell me what you think. Any points you think are funny and what not.
http://www.politifact.com/personalities/sarah-palin/
Here is a quick capsule score sheet OBAMA first
# True(68)
# Mostly True(55)
# Half True(58)
# Barely True(36)
# False(42)
# Pants on Fire(3)
Palin
# True(9)
# Mostly True(6)
# Half True(77)
# Barely True(5)
# False(11)
# Pants on Fire(4)
The numbers in () is the total numbers that are in the category.
Obama's Percent True over False (161.9%)
Palin's Percent True over False (81.8%)
Now one last little calculation true over everything not true!
Obama (35%)
Palin (8%)
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7 responses
@sierras236 (2739)
• United States
19 Oct 10
Other than making the really obvious point that this a completely biased and slanted chart. Perhaps, the chart should read: Pants on Fire 1000%. Chart's percent true over false -1000%.
Umm yeah, if you rely on that for a politifact score you are in serious trouble.
(The St. Petersburg Times is known for its very liberal slant.)
@HawaiiGopher (1009)
• Belgium
19 Oct 10
Hence why they go out of there way to show the lies of left-wing politicians?
@sierras236 (2739)
• United States
20 Oct 10
In the perceived attempt to put some legitimacy but skewing the numbers by selectively picking certain comments of both to be certain the numbers would come out in President Obama's favor. I haven't run the numbers but it appears Palin has more comments posted than President Obama does. That in itself should speak volumes. After all, he has given way more speeches than Sarah Palin has.
@sierras236 (2739)
• United States
20 Oct 10
Actually, The St Petersburg Times has been known as a very liberal newspaper way before this farce came out. It's reputation has been quite well established on that score for sometime.
@Taskr36 (13963)
• United States
19 Oct 10
One thing you should keep in mind is that they don't rate everything a politician says. Politifact is run by the St. Petersburg Times, an extremely left wing newspaper. The easiest way to make someone look good is just rate more of their truths than their lies and you can make someone look bad by rating their lies and ignoring their truths. It's just a matter of selective rating to make a candidate appear more or less honest. It's not hard to find lies Obama has told that are NOT rated on that site or truths Palin has told that are ignored.
In reality the vast majority of things coming out of most politicians mouths would be rated half-true because most of them really just use snippets to prove a point.
@sierras236 (2739)
• United States
19 Oct 10
Other than making the really obvious point that this a completely biased and slanted chart. Perhaps, the chart should read: Pants on Fire 1000%. Chart's percent true over false -1000%.
Umm yeah, if you rely on that for a politifact score you are in serious trouble.
(The St. Petersburg Times is known for its very liberal slant.)
@irishidid (8687)
• United States
19 Oct 10
OMG! How dare you bump Annie's opportunity to start her millionth discussion about her girl crush! 
Seriously, I'd vote for Sarah just to irritate people who hate her.
Seriously, I'd vote for Sarah just to irritate people who hate her. 
