The Washington Post has a feature in which is "fact checks" statements made by politicians to determine if they are true or not. Today, the Post focused on Carly Fiorina's statement that her first job was as a secretary and that she went from secretary to CEO (of Hewlett Packard), a rise that is an illustration of what makes America a great country. The Washington Post gives the statement three out of a possible four Pinocchio's. That means it is "mostly false".
Let's stop here. The WaPo confirms that Fiorina's first job was as a receptionist/secretary at a real estate firm. The WaPo also confirms that she rose after that to be CEO of Hewlett Packard. But, according to the paper, since Fiorina never intended to stay on as a secretary, her story of her history is mostly false. Are they kidding? How many people across America intended to stay at their first job? Not too many. Indeed, anyone with ambition to rise in their career surely had no intention of staying in that first job. So how can that make Carly's history "mostly false"?
The actual truth is that Fiorina's story of her career history is correct, but since she is a Republican with potential to take on the Democrats, the Washington Post fact checker feels compelled to label her story false. It really is disgusting.
But let's flip the story for a moment. When Hillary Clinton said that "everyone knew that [she] had a private email system", the Washington Post fact checker gave her two Pinochio's. That's right, Hillary's claim that everyone knew she had a private email system is rated more true than Fiorina's statement that she rose from being a secretary to a CEO. Think about that. No one in Congress knew that Hillary had a private email system. That is why it was such big news when the truth leaked out last February. The White House has said that it did not know of Hillary's private system before the news broke. The State Department says that it only realized that Hillary had a private system in the summer of 2014, a year and a half after Clinton left the Department. In other words, there were a heck of a lot of important people who had no idea that she had a private system. There is no way that her statement that everyone knew she had a private system is even remotely true. The fact that the WaPo would rate that claim as more true than a correct statement by Carly Fiorina is one of the best illustrations of pro-Clinton bias at the Post.
The Washington Post should be ashamed.
Let's stop here. The WaPo confirms that Fiorina's first job was as a receptionist/secretary at a real estate firm. The WaPo also confirms that she rose after that to be CEO of Hewlett Packard. But, according to the paper, since Fiorina never intended to stay on as a secretary, her story of her history is mostly false. Are they kidding? How many people across America intended to stay at their first job? Not too many. Indeed, anyone with ambition to rise in their career surely had no intention of staying in that first job. So how can that make Carly's history "mostly false"?
The actual truth is that Fiorina's story of her career history is correct, but since she is a Republican with potential to take on the Democrats, the Washington Post fact checker feels compelled to label her story false. It really is disgusting.
But let's flip the story for a moment. When Hillary Clinton said that "everyone knew that [she] had a private email system", the Washington Post fact checker gave her two Pinochio's. That's right, Hillary's claim that everyone knew she had a private email system is rated more true than Fiorina's statement that she rose from being a secretary to a CEO. Think about that. No one in Congress knew that Hillary had a private email system. That is why it was such big news when the truth leaked out last February. The White House has said that it did not know of Hillary's private system before the news broke. The State Department says that it only realized that Hillary had a private system in the summer of 2014, a year and a half after Clinton left the Department. In other words, there were a heck of a lot of important people who had no idea that she had a private system. There is no way that her statement that everyone knew she had a private system is even remotely true. The fact that the WaPo would rate that claim as more true than a correct statement by Carly Fiorina is one of the best illustrations of pro-Clinton bias at the Post.
The Washington Post should be ashamed.
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