August 8, 2012 - 9:30 am
Why Politifact has lost all credibility, episode whatever:
@mattyglesias We never said “lie.” We said Reid provided no evidence and our reporting found no evidence.— @politifact via TweetDeck
What Politifact actually said yesterday:
We find no evidence for Reid’s claim that Romney paid no taxes for 10 years. Pants on Fire! http://t.co/…— @politifact via TweetDeck
So they shouted “Pants on Fire!” but they didn’t technically say the word lie? That’s quite the parsing from a fact-check organization. What was “Pants on Fire!” supposed to mean, then? (Then again, they re-parsed Reid’s original statement so that they could fact-check something he didn’t actually say, rather than what he did say, so they’re not exactly strangers to creatively re-parsing things.) Sorry, but we’ve got to rate Politifact’s defense here as “Pantaloons Ablaze.” That’s different from both lying and pants-on-fire lying, but only in that pantaloons is a pretty cool word and needs to be used more often.
Are you really this naive, or is Daily Kos that dumb? “Pants on fire” is an obvious reference to the old children’s chant:
Liar,
Liar,
Pants on Fire,
Hanging fron the telephone wire…
I never knew what hanging from a phone line had to do with the rest of it, but when they say “pants on fire” they’re obviously calling someone a liar. Obviously they were trying to cover themselves with Harry, and got a little carried away…
Actually, it is:
“Liar, liar, pants on fire,
nose is as long as a telephone wire”
referencing the whole Pinnochio thing.
And I guess the Daily Kos figures that accusing someone else of a crime is the same as saying you, yourself are not a criminal.
Okay, then: The Daily Kos is funded directly from the Kremlin by way of the Gnomes of Zurich, funneled through the Boy Sprouts of America. Prove it’s not true.
As the character on the commercial says “No mas pantalones”.
ROTFLMHO.
IYKWIMAITTYD!
We are left with only one interpretation, either theirs or Reid’s pants really were ignited. An epidemic, it seems.