The Tampon Tampa Bay Times’ “fact-checking” website has been caught in a lie (trying to shill for a disease called ‘Barack Obama’):

 

 

To save Obama from being caught in yet another one in his endless stream of lies, The Tampon Tampa Bay Times’ “Politifact” wrote:

In 2007, the Supreme Court had ruled in Ledbetter vs. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. that the 180-day statute of limitations started from the day an employer made the decision to discriminate — making it impossible for employees who learned of such discrimination later to get relief, such as back pay.

 

 

Now, for the truth (oops):

When Fact Checkers Have Trouble with Facts:

by Jonathan H. Adler , Constitutional scholar (and unlike another lie about Barack Obama, this guy actually taught Constitutional law):

 

The problem is the last part of this sentence is false. In Ledbetter the Supreme Court did not hold that employees who learned of alleged discrimination more than 180 days after the alleged offenses were precluded from suing their employers. That question was not before the Court, and the majority opinion expressly noted (in footnote 10) that it was not answering this question. Ledbetter’s claim was not premised on a recent discovery of past discrimination. In fact, during the course of the litigation Ledbetter acknowledged that she first learned of the alleged discrimination more than 180 days before she filed suit. Indeed, as Hans Bader notes, Ledbetter admitted in a deposition that she learned of the pay disparities in 1992, but did not file suit until 1998. Whether or not this should have precluded her suit, and whether or not the subsequent legislation was wise, it is simply false to say that the Supreme Court’s decision would have precluded individuals from pursuing claims about prior discrimination even if they “learned of such discrimination later.” This “fact” asserted by Politifact is nothing of the sort. [I e-mailed Politifact about this on Wednesday evening. On Thursday I received an e-mail saying they were “reviewing” the claim. Although it would take no more than ten minutes to read the relevant portions of the Supreme Court’s decision, Politifact has yet to revise the article, or even note that the claim is disputed.]

When Fact Checkers Have Trouble with Facts

 

 

So, Tampon Tampa Bay Times: this is what we think of your lying ‘fact-check’ website and your crappy, biased newspaper:

 

 

 

 

 Panic sets in:

 

“Call me crazy — but I think they’re on to us!”

Neil Brown, editor, Tampa Bay Times

 

 

“Okay: you’re crazy!”