Thread by @JewhadiTM

Fact-checking is broken: The petty, pedantic, pointless picking at Trump's State of the Union washex.am/2Dah2VM

FACT CHECK: Jews don't believe in heaven(?)

For example, Trump introduced one guest Tuesday evening with the following remarks:

"A second Holocaust survivor who is here tonight, Joshua Kaufman, was a prisoner at Dachau concentration camp. He remembers watching through a hole in the wall of a cattle car as American soldiers rolled in with tanks."

“To me,” Joshua recalls, “the American soldiers were proof that God exists, and they came down from the sky. They came down from heaven.”

Mentioning heaven while introducing a Jewish guest? Not on New York Times White House correspondent @AnnieKarni’s watch!

“Trump just ad-libbed ‘they came down from heaven’ quoting a Holocaust survivor watching American soldiers liberate Dachau,” she tweeted. “Jews don't believe in heaven.”

Yes, they do. This is about as funny as when she asked unironically, “Jews believe in the concept of Hell?”

FACT CHECK: Only 31 percent female migrants were abused, not one-third.

Politico, meanwhile, assigned a “partly true” rating to Trump’s assertion that “One in three [female migrants] is sexually assaulted on the long journey north.”

31%of female migrants say they have been abused while traveling through Mexico, @Politico noted, citing Doctors without Borders. Yes, Politico. One-in-three is 33%. Trump rounded up by 2.3 percentage points.

Way to keep him in check. This is almost as embarrassing as the time the Toronto Star’s Daniel Dale struggled with the meaning of “historically low.”

FACT CHECK: Democratic women don't count as women, or something...

Trump also said Tuesday that “exactly one century after Congress passed the constitutional amendment giving women the right to vote, we also have more women serving in Congress than at any time.”

Not on @NPR's watch!

“FACT CHECK: President Trump praised the record number of women in Congress, but that's almost entirely because of Democrats, not Trump’s party,” the group tweeted.

This is not a fact check. It’s just added context, and petty added context, at that.

FACT CHECK: *ACTUALLY* Afghanistan isn't in the Middle East, so our troops have been in the Middle East for ONLY 17-plus years.

Trump said Tuesday that our “brave troops have now been fighting in the Middle East for almost 19 years."

The @AP wasn’t having any of it.

“Trump exaggerated the length of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan,” the news wire complained. “The war in Afghanistan began in October 2001, in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks. The invasion of Iraq was in March 2003. The U.S. has been at war for a bit more than 17 years.”

The AP report adds, “Also, he refers to fighting in the Middle East. Iraq is in the Middle East, but Afghanistan is in south and central Asia.”