Fact-Checking Matt Cantor and Newser:
RE:http://www.newser.com/story/201592/fact-checking-the-state-of-the-union.html
This is a copy of the comment I left at the Newser webpage.  If this post gets enough attention, I'll go in and add clarifying details rather than ask that you just go read the newser article first.

Afghanistan- He followed up his comment with the exact number of troops remaining in the country. It's not fact-checking if he actually said, almost in the same breath, the thing you claim to be clarifying. You're lying by omission. That's not journalism.

---US Troop deaths in Afghanistan---
2010- 496 
2011- 412 
2012- 301 
2013- 120 
2014- 40 
Not one US personnel death since August and not a single coalition death since October. Whatever they stopped doing, they stopped dying.

---Job growth and creation---
Did he say our economy is growing faster than any year since 1999 or did he say our economy was growing and also that it is creating jobs faster, omitting the speed at which our economy itself is growing, which is separate from job creation? You can accuse him of playing with the words to make it sound better than it is but you sidestep the fact that more jobs were created in 2014 (2,952,000) than any year since 1999 (3,177,000) which is PRECISELY what he said. You are making up facts to disagree with. That's not journalism.

He said "All advanced economies combined." not "All advanced countries combined."
Just a few of those advanced economies and their populations (Hong Kong with 7-million being among the least of them):

Japan 127-million (nearly half the US population alone)
Germany 80-million
France 66-million
United KIngdom 64-million

I'll stop there because the cumulative number of citizens of these economies/countries is larger than the US and we still outgrew them in jobs, not counting the many more advanced economies on IMFs list. But you knew that so you're being disingenuous (lying while smiling) at best. That's not journalism.

---Cyber-security--- "No guarantees" applies to the most lock-tight, literal guarantees in existence. What a whopper! Not journalism.

And I'm sorry to say I have to call you out on the last one as well. My allegiance is to the truth. It alarms me that this is the distinction between you, the presumably gainfully employed journalist, and I, the jobless HS dropout.

He's not selling himself short because he's never taken personal credit for the ACA. It's something we accomplished as a nation. He has nothing to gain by "selling himself" in that he will never seek another elected office again, ever, and all of his Earthly needs are surely secure. In what at first appears to be a bit of apology for your hollow criticisms and erroneous/malicious "clarifications", you seem to seek only to further mischaracterize his words. Wrong is wrong and you sir are wrong, intentionally so. That's not journalism.

Whatever you're up to, it isn't journalism. Thank-You for reading my resume. Please forward it to your editor.

-George Carlos