Update March 2, 2018
We've been curious, especially in light of the gun debate's current popularity, what has happened to PolitiFact's experiment involving "reader advocates." Particularly we noted the absence of Republican David Jolly. We published a post yesterday [March 1--bww] addressing this curiosity and included a healthy dose of snark.
Mr.
Jolly has since responded via Twitter that his silence was the result
of personal matters, including a death in the family and threats he's
been receiving.
Our sarcasm was
intended to mock the same problems we typically do with PolitiFact.
While there's nothing offensive in anything we wrote, we've decided to
remove the post in deference to Mr. Jolly's personal circumstances.
We'll continue to use snark to highlight PolitiFact's dubious operation, but in this instance we don't see the value in unnecessary jokes in light of Mr. Jolly's response.
(above by Jeff D.)
Update continued:
We'll continue to use snark to highlight PolitiFact's dubious operation, but in this instance we don't see the value in unnecessary jokes in light of Mr. Jolly's response.
(above by Jeff D.)
Update continued:
Instead of deleting the post or preserving it offsite via the Internet Archive, we're putting it below a page break and changing the text to white (on a white background) to make it mostly invisible to all except the insatiably curious.
Some blue highlights from embedded URLs will remain visible.
