Anyone who has tried having a rational, civil discussion with a TeaPublican has had the odd encounter where they are informed the "Fact Check Sites are liberal."
Then they give you the "facts" that they're all owned and/or operated by George Orwell.
The "conversation" quickly devolves into quagmire of myth vs. reality with both sides being treated equally.
The conservatives even established their "own" fact-check site, Conservative Fact Check.
(As an ironic aside, I wanted to give it a good look, just to see if it was credible. It wasn't. It was a lot of opinion stated as facts. But the one article I did find a fact on was reversing their previous ruling that Obama'a birth certificate was fake.
Part of their reasoning was, "We recently had to part ways with a contributor named "Techdude." It began with serious questions over whether his stated credentials are accurate. "
You get the irony: They had to recant their fact check because they didn't fact check their fact checker.
Inevitably it gets to this statement, which drives me insane to the point that I want to metaphorically rip my hair out, eat it, digest it, crap it out and then throw the hair-crap at the person who said it.
"You have your facts, I have mine."
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