Re:Snopes pulls out of its fact-checking partnership with Fa...
by Zecar on Friday February 01, 2019 @06:26PM
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> Which part of it is inaccurate?
?? I don't know, perhaps the part where the guy is literally on video claiming to be a vietnam vet? You folks are utterly baffling. But go ahead and downvote.
Re:Snopes pulls out of its fact-checking partnership with Fa...
by int_19h on Friday February 01, 2019 @11:37PM
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The issue at hand wasn't whether he ever misrepresented himself like that, but whether he did so in the context of this particular event - i.e. when he was being interviewed. I'm not aware of any video evidence of that, nor did any outlets referenced the video you linked to as their basis for the claims that he's a Vietnam vet. The reason why they did so is because he told them that he is a "Vietnam era vet", which is misleading (as Snopes rightly points out), but not outright false.
"It’s difficult to determine at this point whether Phillips has deliberately misrepresented the nature of his service, whether he has been so vague and ambiguous in many of his descriptions (unintentionally or otherwise) that misinterpretations have entered his narrative, or whether he has tried to be accurate but may have just occasionally slipped up in his many, many hours of conversation and sometimes neglected to include the qualifiers about his service that he has used in many other videos and press interviews. Nonetheless, at times it has certainly sounded as though Phillips was trying to foster the impression that he had both served during the Vietnam War and had been deployed to Vietnam at some point during his service, even if he didn’t literally say so."
Which part of it is inaccurate?