When it comes to what is fact and what is not in any given situation, Politifact is as trustworthy as an anonymous Twitter user with no photos and five followers. It has been proven time and time again that his out-of-control prejudice tilted so far to the left that he sometimes fell and embarrassed himself.
It only did so again, but this time it tried to compete with Texas Senator Ted Cruz on Texas law. Extremely unwise. In a real game with Ali at his peak, the old woman will have better luck.
But Politifact knew that it was a lost battle when it was debating Texas law with Cruz, so it did what it always did when it needed to push the narrative; it manipulated the story by focusing on an unrelated piece of information. .
Nevertheless, it did not help them, Cruz finally had the last laugh.
When Cruz told USA Today reporter Savannah Bellman, “There is a clear legal power to handcuff and fetter legislators who try to prevent the legislature from doing business.” This refers to the fact that Democrats in the House of Representatives fled Texas to Washington to prevent the passage of voting security legislation to support the passage of the Democratic Party’s “For the People Act”, which effectively deprived a state of the ability to ensure and monitor Own election.
(read: “Action for the people” is to seize the power of the Democratic Party, not to fight for freedom)
In order for Cruz, the state’s former deputy attorney general, to arrest these heroic Democrats who fled the state to prevent the people from doing business, he didn’t know what he was talking about. “Error. There is no clear stipulation in the law.”
.@SenTedCruz Said: “There are clear legal powers to put handcuffs and shackles on legislators who try to prevent the legislature from conducting business.” Wrong. There is no clear stipulation in the law. https://t.co/E5TnK9KOQG pic.twitter.com/dxBk9obLR1
-Political Facts (@PolitiFact) July 16, 2021
If you are an ordinary Internet user, you will see this tweet and think that Cruz and those despicable Republicans once again smoke and lose their temper, seeking punishment for those who are not worthy. It may even get a lot of reposts, spreading the claim that the Texas Democrats were actually arrested without any legal basis.
The problem is that Texas Constitution To make it clear that Cruz is correct in Article 3, Section 10:
Two-thirds of each house shall constitute a quorum for conducting business, but a smaller number may adjourn the meeting every day, and the presence of members who are compulsively absent shall be imposed in the manner prescribed by each house and penalties.
If you click on PolitiFact’s article on the matter, you can even see that they also know this and admit that, in fact, Cruz is correct in the whole thing.
So how do they evaluate Cruz’s statement as false? simple. Politifact pulled a Politifact and focused on a word that Cruz used to evaluate his statement as completely wrong. They focused their attention on the word “clear”:
PolitiFact wrote: “Texas House rules stipulate that absent legislators can be “sent and arrested, no matter where they are found.” “However, because absent legislators have not been charged with a crime, they are not It is clear how to interpret the use of the term “arrest” in this situation. This is because no Texas court has reviewed how to enforce this clause. Therefore, there is no legal clarity. “
But there are. The Texas Supreme Court made this clear even when it overturned a lower court’s ruling that prevented the arrest of AWOL Democrats.National law enforcement officers even Acting for these arrests. The whole thing is set in stone. Therefore, Politifact not only tries to speed up the pace to set the wrong narrative, it does not even provide the correct premise for its manipulation of language.
By the way, even though all this happened last week, PolitiFact still rated Cruz’s quotation as “wrong”, further increasing the falsehood of PolitiFact itself. Cruz himself pointed this out.
Yes. The Supreme Court of Texas just agreed with me—unanimously.
But, of course, PolitiFact still ruled that this statement was “false.”
They have not yet issued a correction. https://t.co/TavqAguOwl
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) August 11, 2021
PolitiFact is obviously biased. It uses its reputation as a “fact-finding” entity to manipulate people into believing untrue things in any given situation. If the Democrats need something false, they will find a way to do it, even if it means using only one word and using it to create a complete story.
This is murky, dirty, mean…this is PolitiFact.
