Sen. Elizabeth “Pocahontas” Warren: not a well-known truth-teller
“Fact-checking” is all the rage on the Internet. But who checks the fact-checkers?
We start with what we are told, at first, is a quote from Sen. Elizabeth “Pocahontas” Warren: the American people, she is said to have said (beautiful prose!), “have no right to know how we spend their money” (https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2025/feb/11/instagram-posts/no-warren-didnt-say-citizens-dont-have-the-right-t/).
That’s from Politifact. You can get the same from Reuters and other wandering fact-checkers. All of whom say she never said it.
My problem is, I can’t believe these people. I know they’ll say and do just about anything to protect Democrats and advance their socialist agenda. To me the purported quote sounds fully in character and accurately reflects Democrat behavior. Sen. Warren would, it’s true, have to be a bigger than average chucklehead, to say a thing like this in public. But she is a chucklehead: by their fruits ye shall know them.
I wouldn’t spend 2 minutes listening to her, or any who agree with her. They would drive me nuts. I’m close enough to that already without doing anything to increase it.
You have to admit it’s flabbergasting to hear a senator speak so candidly.
No right to know how my money is spent? Unbelievable!
A standard way to give deniability to someone you’re covering for is to claim the person “never said it” — meaning “in those exact words.” For example, maybe the person said “deep blue” rather than “dark blue” or “over there” rather than “in that direction,” although that doesn’t change the meaning of what was said. In this case, Warren may have said that the American people have no right to “government databases” or “details about recipient organizations” or some other weasel-word way of saying “how we’re spending people’s money.” So the fact checkers are right about the precise wording, but only in order to cover up what she was actually saying.
They aren’t going to fool us with that.
I have a real problem believing anything said by media “fact-checkers.”
As in “Check your facts at the door before you enter the hall.”