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It s not a hard thing to do. if in fact, they found without looking into it too much, it s not hard to find, that only 21 states prohibit employment discrimination based on sexual orientation. so, let s see. there are 50 states. if only 21 of the 50 states had discrimination laws that protect gay people, that means, right, 29 states do not have that protection. so, in those states, just like martina navratilova said, you can get fired for being gay or even if your boss just thinks you are. so, they checked what she said, they found it to be true. so, naturally, politifact finding that her statement was true, rated it half true! politifact is terrible! terrible, terrible at what they do. and also, in 29 states, you really can be fired from your job if you re gay or if your boss thinks that you re gay, just like she said. the next time you want to cite politifact as a source on something being truthful or not, don t. ....
Looking into it too much, it s not hard to find, that only 21 states prohibit employment discrimination based on sexual orientation. so, let s see. there are 50 states. if only 21 of the 50 states had discrimination laws that protect gay people, that means, right, 29 states do not have that protection. so, in those states, just like martina navratilova said, you can get fired for being gay or even if your boss just thinks you are. so, they checked what she said, they found it to be true. so, naturally, politifact finding that her statement was true, rated it half true! politifact is terrible! terrible, terrible at what they do. and also, in 29 states, you really can be fired from your job if you re gay or if your boss thinks that you re gay, just like she said. the next time you want to cite politifact as a source on something being truthful or not, don t. just fact-check whatever it is yourself. even if you are drunk at the time you are doing it, you will do a better job than politifa ....
Discrimination based on sexual orientation. so, let s see. there are 50 states. if only 21 of the 50 states had discrimination laws that protect gay people, that means, right, 29 states do not have that protection. so, in those states, just like martina navratilova said, you can get fired for being gay or even if your boss just thinks you are. so, they checked what she said, they found it to be true. so, naturally, politifact finding that her statement was true, rated it half true! politifact is terrible! terrible, terrible at what they do. and also, in 29 states, you really can be fired from your job if you re gay or if your boss thinks that you re gay, just like she said. the next time you want to cite politifact as a source on something being truthful or not, don t. just fact-check whatever it is yourself. even if you are drunk at the time you are doing it, you will do a better job than politifact does. stop talking about them and maybe they will wither away. ....
States prohibit employment discrimination based on sexual orientation. so, let s see. there are 50 states. if only 21 of the 50 states had discrimination laws that protect gay people, that means, right, 29 states do not have that protection. so, in those states, just like martina navratilova said, you can get fired for being gay or even if your boss just thinks you are. so, they checked what she said, they found it to be true. so, naturally, politifact finding that her statement was true, rated it half true! politifact is terrible! terrible, terrible at what they do. and also, in 29 states, you really can be fired from your job if you re gay or if your boss thinks that you re gay, just like she said. the next time you want to cite politifact as a source on something being truthful or not, don t. just fact-check whatever it is yourself. even if you are drunk at the time you are doing it, you will do a better job than politifact ....
At msnbc for two reasons. first, i have the highest-rated show on the network as my lead-in, anchored by the incomparable rachel maddow, and second, rachel has defended me tonight against politifact s false finding of fact, better than i ever could myself. this is not the first time rachel has brilliantly deconstructed a politifact finding. our blog now has links to all of rachel s takedowns of politifact, which everyone in journalism should see. i was going to fill this space tonight with a detailed defense of my use of the word welfare in our ad, which is the only word that politifact objects to. i was going to explain that other words were used at that time, such as the dole, and relief, and those words morph offered the decades into what we now call welfare, and that if i used one of those words in the ad, no one under 70 would know what i was talking about. but, as you saw earlier tonight, rachel already did that, better than i ever could. now if i could just get rachel ....