The Walz Adminitration debuted their fraud “fact check” to much acclaim earlier this week. Tag line,
The place for Minnesotans to find accurate information about our fight against fraud.
From the Minneapolis Star Tribune,
Minnesota creates fraud ‘fact check’ amid national political scrutiny.
Perhaps “acclaim” was too strong, given the scare quotes in the Star Tribune headline. The site is hosted by the state’s embattled Dept. of Human Services (DHS), a/k/a/ fraud central, as part of the agency’s laughable “program integrity” PR effort.
In debunking all these false claims, the new site includes devastating ripostes, such as,
FACT: Many office buildings across the Midwest are former industrial buildings.
The DHS site heavily leans on the logical fallacies of strawman and appeal to authority arguments. For example,
FACT: Investigations are best left to those with training and experience.
Really. I would strenuously disagree, and I have more than four years of work to back up my contrary view,
The new site takes on five alleged claims, including two of the five inside quotation marks. I cannot find on the site any link or reference to any of the five claims. I would think that a link to the item you are fact checking would be a basic feature of a fact-check site. Your tax dollars at work
In its report, the Star Tribune hazards a guess at the origin of a few of them.
The whole exercise appears as another attempt of the “Fraud? What Fraud” coverup.
If you looking at real facts on Minnesota fraud, look no further than our MN Fraud Files site. We formally launched it today, after a soft launch at the end of last month.
Enjoy!