You betcha.
PolitiFact's June 4, 2015 item on Rick Perry's PolitiFact report card continues PolitiFact's pattern. There's no warning that PolitiFact does not select stories randomly. Readers just get the eye-candy bar-graph that implies a profile of Perry's general reliability.
PolitiFact editor Angie Drobnic Holan says "There's not a lot of reader confusion out there." Yet on PolitiFact's Facebook page we have comments like these:
"72 percent of his statements are not believable?"
"15% of the time he is telling the truth."
"only about 50% lies.??.not bad for a republican.."
"Pretty weak when pants on fire is nearing your mostly true and true remarks."
"Appears he has a real problem with dealing in true statements"
Those comments hint strongly at confusion. Why can't PolitiFact see it?
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