The Analysis of Articles in Factcheck and PolitiFact Sites - Essay Example

The most common form of deception is misleading such as the advertisement of Barack Obama’s camp on Romney’s abortion stance that he is against abortion even if it is due to rape and incest. This was misleading because there was no such law – at all.

 Romney also employed deception in his attack on Obama with his ad that Obama will raise taxes by $4,000 on the American middle class. This was an outright fabrication because Obama is not planning to raise taxes on the middle class to service the debt. The articles in Factcheck.org and politiFact.org also reveal how politicians use false information to make accusations. We can use as an example the most common issue of sequestration which is the spending cuts to arrest the deficit. Republics blamed Obama in FastCheck.org in the article The Obamaquester that it will specifically target certain sectors of society. When it was verified in with PoliticalFact.org, this accusation was false because the sequester does not make a distinction quoting Obama saying it “won’t consider whether we’re cutting some bloated program that has outlived its usefulness, or a vital service that Americans depend on every single day.

It doesn’t make those distinctions”. I am no longer surprised why people do not trust politicians after checking these websites.