GOP Strategist Dan Perrin model predicts Republicans keep House, Senate
A snake seen crawling between the stones of Israel's Western Wall has sparked claims that a prophecy about the Messiah's coming is about to be fulfilled.
The claims were made after video of the snake scaring away a pigeon was posted on YouTube before being picked up by Hebrew bloggers.
The bloggers claim the symbol of a pigeon fleeing a snake shows we are living in 'dangerous times' directly pre-dating the coming of the Messiah.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6345781/Snake-appears-Israels-Western-Wall-sparking-claims-Biblical-prophecy-coming-true.html
Fact-Check Warning: Don't Just Read the Verdict
Fact-checking outfits are supposed to help prevent the spread of misinformation by assigning tidy ratings that place publicly made statements into camps of truths and falsehoods. The effort is noble, given mounting evidence that people share information in pernicious ways. Studies, for example, show that many readers don’t make it past headlines, and that a majority of social media users share articles that they haven’t even read. Given this troubling tendency, it must be assumed that the reader of a fact-checking article might see only the verdict. But can the verdict be trusted to tell the whole story? It is not difficult to find instances that suggest otherwise.
PolitiFact, for example, recently examined a claim by MSNBC host Joe Scarborough that “President Trump’s Republican Party will create more debt in one year than was generated in the first 200 years of America’s existence.” It rated this claim as “Mostly True,” and pointed out that the same rating had been given to a similar claim that Jeb Bush made about President Obama back in February 2016. But it can just as easily be argued that this verdict is not fair to either president.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/11/02/fact-check_warning_dont_just_read_the_verdict_138535.html