Politifact Check: Sanders' claim that he is the son of an immigrant mostly false

[cali]

Although Sanders' father did come to the U.S. from Poland as a teenager, his mother was, in fact, natural born. By omitting that his mother was a natural born citizen, Mr. Sanders is misleading his audience.

Our Conclusion: Mostly False.





Ok guys, this is satire inspired by politifact judging Bernie on a claim he never made.

[bravenak]

1. WTF?

[oberliner]

5. This is a spoof of some kind

Not clear who the target is though.

[bravenak]

11. Thank you. Really I was like whaaa?

[boston bean]

7. I think the OP is making this up. No link, just more of the Bernie is so victimized by the

oligarchy.

[bravenak]

12. Jesus christ this is getting crazy

[boston bean]

14. very weird. But some people are going to believe this as you can see down thread.

I suggest everyone not believe every single little thing on the internet that can be made to seem it points to some multiple layered conspiracy as a reason for a candidate having issues.

At least between Democrats. We all know the republicans will say and do anything.

[bravenak]

20. I never thought to see US doing shit like this

[Bluenorthwest]

24. It's shriekingly clear satire. It's good and funny satire. The great thing about satire is that the

punch line is the people who don't get it. That's right, the joke is the fact that some people buy into it. WTF? Hilarious as the cultural illiteracy of DU is further highlighted.

[boston bean]

26. I don't think satire can only be judged as to whether people were spoofed or not.

[Bluenorthwest]

28. That's not what I said, of course. I said the punchline, the payoff of good satire is those who take

it seriously. And that is the fact. "think the OP is making this up. No link, just more of the Bernie is so victimized by the
oligarchy" serves as one of a few excellent punchlines in this thread.
It good light clean fun!

[boston bean]

29. It was bad satire. With a bent to make Bernie a victim again of the Oligarchy!

And again, I don't think the because some people are so easily spoofed means anything really, in regards to the said "satire". I find no pay off with it, because the satire imo was bad to begin with.

[RiverLover]

2. Is this a joke?

Is Politifact rigged too?

[cali]

10. Yes, it's satire and yes, politifact is bullshit

For one thing they claimed he falsely asserted that Albright supported the Iraq war when he never made any such claim. Politifact is a project of the Tampa Bay Times which endorsed Hillary.

[RiverLover]

16. Wow, good to know.

Thank you.

[cali]

18. Yeah, it is important to be aware of

[Hoyt]

21. TB Times is not some corporate owned paper and is generally considered liberal. But don't let that

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Stop you from spreading fertilizer.

[cali]

23. It is a fact that they claimed Bernie asserted that Albright

supported the Iraq war. He did no such thing.

[djean111]

31. Don't forget that the TBT is free. Doubt they would have as big a circulation if we had

to pay for it. I usually grab six or seven at a time for the bottoms of litter boxes, and as a weed barrier in my garden.

[oberliner]

3. What are you satirizing here?

Politifact being questionable? Or something else?

[cali]

15. I thought it was clearly satire.

Not surprised you picked it up. I'm satirizing politifact falsely claiming that Bernie asserted that Albright supported the Iraq war. He did not assert that.

[oberliner]

22. Gotcha

It definitely read like satire to me - I just didn't know about the Albright thing being on Politifact.

[Art_from_Ark]

25. Given all the actual smears that have been posted as fact about Bernie,

including "Photogate", "Logogate", "Pingate", and "Whatevergate", this OP was NOT clearly satire.

[Katashi_itto]

4. What a pathetic rag.

[AtomicKitten]

6. He says: "I'm the son of an immigrant father."

https://m.facebook.com/cnn/posts/10154372876076509?fref=nf

Which is true so WTF?

[FreakinDJ]

9. Got a link for that - because I'm not finding it on Politifact site

[oberliner]

13. It is a joke/parody/spoof

I think the OP should make that more clear.

Edit to add: OP has made it more clear.

[still_one]

27. That assumes that the OP doesn't want to mislead, and that might not be the case

[cali]

33. Oh for pity's sake. No, I'm not trying to lead anyone astray.

[still_one]

34. ok

[djean111]

17. I thought this was funny; it will whoosh! over some heads, and, inevitably, some heads

will eagerly believe it and revel in it.

What will be just as entertaining is watching who bites.

[stonecutter357]

19. from Poland!

[bvf]

30. Some of the responses here

are priceless. For folks who supposedly pride themselves on paying attention, their selectivity boggles the mind.

Good job, cali!

[Agschmid]

32. Yup.