Just The PolitiFacts, Ma'am, Part 3

Rachel Maddow once again took PolitiFact to task for finding something factually true, and then calling the claim "mostly false".  Considering the target was her MSNBC co-worker Lawrence O' Donnell, you can bet what Rachel's response to that was.

In a promotional spot for his MSNBC program, Lawrence O’Donnell claimed that critics called the original GI Bill “welfare.” PolitiFact analyzed the claim and noted that critics did deride it as a “dole system.” However, two historians PolitiFact contacted said they did not know of any instances where the GI bill was explicitly attacked as “welfare.”

“What’s the dole system, what’s the dole?” Maddow said. “The dole is welfare. That’s what British people call welfare. It’s an English language, slang term everywhere for welfare. So case closed, right? Lawrence’s ad says that critics of the GI bill called it welfare. Politifact finds that they did call it welfare.”

“Politifact fact checks historical claim A, finds it to be true, and therefore rates the claim mostly false! They found it to be true, but they rate it mostly false. They print the evidence that it’s true, ‘the bane of the British Empire has been the dole system,’ and right under that they say, ‘we found no evidence of critics referring to the GI bill as welfare.’”

“Dudes, you just published the evidence of critics referring to the GI bill as welfare. It is right there. On the same page,” Maddow added. “What do you think the British dole system is? Do you think it is a pineapple program of some kind? Maybe something to do with bananas?”

And for the third time, Rachel Maddow has PolitiFact dead to rights, caught in the act of finding something to be true said by liberals and noting the evidence of that truth in the claim, but then dismissing it subjectively as "Mostly False".

It's getting old, if not tiresome and purposefully dangerous in the case of PolitiFact's claim that Dems said the GOP ending Medicare as we know it was their "Lie of the Year" in 2011.  Republicans are now using that in ads in order to attack Democrats and "proof" to convince voters that their voucher plan won't hurt anyone at all.

So yes, PolitiFact's mendacity is now being employed by the GOP Noise Machine.  And maybe that's what they wanted all along.