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NurseJackie

(42,862 posts) Mon Feb 4, 2019, 01:13 PM Feb 2019

I want REAL-TIME fact-checking during the SOTU speech! Networks can use the bottom of the screen...

I want REAL-TIME fact-checking during the SOTU speech! Networks can use the bottom of the screen (the area normally used for scrolling headlines and "breaking" headlines).

The text of the speech is generally given to news outlets before the speech, so a team of a dozen readers/researchers can each be given a page to fact-check and have the "pop-up" facts ready to go and synchronized to appear on-screen at the exact moment he tells a lie.

Is that too much to ask?

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I want REAL-TIME fact-checking during the SOTU speech! Networks can use the bottom of the screen... (Original Post) NurseJackie Feb 2019 OP

That's assuming he sticks to the script, but if he jumps the rails and goes off The Velveteen Ocelot Feb 2019 #1

When he goes off track they should announce it. LiberalFighter Feb 2019 #36

The "chyron" ProudLib72 Feb 2019 #2

Or, do it MOSTLY live, but give Rachel the pause button... NurseJackie Feb 2019 #3

I hardly ever watch the box and don't have cable or dish so it was new to me, too. Scruffy1 Feb 2019 #35

I want World Peace and Sherman A1 Feb 2019 #4

My idea is more likely, though. NurseJackie Feb 2019 #12

I really have to disagree Sherman A1 Feb 2019 #16

Okay. NurseJackie Feb 2019 #17

Agreed matt819 Feb 2019 #5

I boycotted the SOTU last year and will do the same this year Gothmog Feb 2019 #6

I'll watch "Russian Doll" on Netflix and catch Rachel Maddow's recap the following night. NurseJackie Feb 2019 #13

My wish Pantagruel Feb 2019 #7

Maybe she could do a Carol Burnett ear-tug as a signal that it's bullshit! NurseJackie Feb 2019 #14

Heck if FB has instant replay, they can have fact checking. A little delay would not hurt.. mitch96 Feb 2019 #8

I want real-time fact checking by Dems every damn time one of our own is attacked for any reason Hekate Feb 2019 #9

Why bother with the scrolling text? A static "FALSE" across the screen would be accurate. n/t whopis01 Feb 2019 #10

Excellent idea! NurseJackie Feb 2019 #15

The only fact checking needed is for the media to say, 'Yep, he is rambling again' KWR65 Feb 2019 #11

I think Pelosi should have score cards like "6" Or "-6" or Pinocchio cards. Hamlette Feb 2019 #18

They could do it the same way they did real time polling during some of the debates csziggy Feb 2019 #19

Message auto-removed Name removed Feb 2019 #20

That's exactly what Trump and the GOP are concerned about. NurseJackie Feb 2019 #21

and who specifically does that apply to pray tell? still_one Feb 2019 #24

Just a Latin tag without explanation makes it seem kind of random. Maybe we'll get more later. nt Hekate Feb 2019 #33

That poster has been shown the door. NurseJackie Feb 2019 #34

Hmmmmmmm still_one Feb 2019 #37

Id est quid diceret Trump nt Apollyonus Feb 2019 #26

Ask Sam Vimes Hekate Feb 2019 #32

Daniel Dale of The Toronto Star, @ddale8 on twitter does the best real time fact checking irisblue Feb 2019 #22

I want things done "Pop Up Video" style. mwooldri Feb 2019 #23

That would be attention-getting. Many people have learned to ignore crawlers. NurseJackie Feb 2019 #25

Me, too! Karadeniz Feb 2019 #27

If his lips are moving, there are no facts. robleb Feb 2019 #28

MSNBC promised SCVDem Feb 2019 #29

We apologize for the inconvenience.... OxQQme Feb 2019 #30

and a buzzer to go of every time there is a lie... PeeJ52 Feb 2019 #31

Live fact checker is fine with me. Talitha Feb 2019 #38

The Velveteen Ocelot

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1. That's assuming he sticks to the script, but if he jumps the rails and goes off