Questionable fact-checking "Half-True", "Mostly-True" - Rachel Maddow to PolitiFact: "You're fired!"

YouTube :: The video footage shows a 4:36 min clip of Rachel Maddow's eponymous show on MSNBC. She had a closer (and entertaining) look at PolitiFact's Truth-O-Meter(TM) fact check of a statement in President Barack Obama's State of the Union address, questioning if this can be called fact checking at all.

PolitFact looked into a special part of President Obama's speech, in which he said: "In the last 22 months, businesses have created more than 3 million jobs. Last year, they created the most jobs since 2005." PolitiFact's rated his statement: "Half True". Half true? - PolitiFact explained the rating: "Obama is correct on both counts when using private-sector job numbers. But he went too far when he implicitly credited his administration policies. So we rate the statement Half True." - Maddow: "'When he 'implicitly credited his administration policies'?'" (Obama said: "businesses have created ...") Maddow: "PolitiFact, what is wrong with you? You think the President calls himself businesses?"

[Rachel Maddow, MSNBC:] How do two trues add up to a half true?

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