Robert MarianiVerified account

'Aristotle was the grandfather of science' "UHH FACT CHECK: SCIENCE IS AN ABSTRACT CONCEPT AND HAS NO GRANDPARENTS"

Fact check: Elvis was not "the King of Rock." Rock and Roll is a music genre, not a state ruled by a hereditary monarch

Fact check: Michael Phelps did not "blow the competition out of the water." Other swimmers remained completely in the pool.

Fact check: World War 1 didn’t “redraw the map of Europe.” Cartographers were responsible for that.

Fact check: The creme brulee at the bistro is not “transcendent.” The laws of our universe fully apply to it.

Fact check: John Oliver did not “eviscerate” Donald Trump. The GOP nominee is alive with all of his organs intact.

Yeah, it's called "quoting" and journalists are taught to use this exotic technique on, well, everybody. @robert_mariani

that's not what I asked

I want CNN & Fox News to do precisely that. To say "He said X." They can add "The facts support that X is flat-out untrue."

Michael Phelps didn't literally blow competition out of the water. That's a ludicrous thing to fact check and you know it

Nobody said he literally did. Trump LITERALLY said those quotes. And then went back and tried to say "hey, sarcasm." Yeah.

have you ever used figurative or metaphorical language? Should your metaphors be fact checked from a non-metaphorical angle?

Yes, but THAT WAS NOT WHAT HE WAS DOING. Folks can say it was after the fact, but that doesn't make it true.

Trump didn't think Obama was personally in Syria in 1999 rounding up militants. That's just not a reasonable interpretation

depends if that anyone is running for president?

#msm reporting on #Trump has just become one long eye roll. Predictable, lazy and clearly from the #DNC playbook.