Bottom-line: Such statements are not verifiable, are meaningless. You couldn’t fact-check it. Permalink to this paragraph Reporters take such liberties, at a time when they must defend their value as the only objective fact-gatherers in our society. They even call themselves referees. But then they make up “facts” like this, and there’s never anyone to ask a reporter, like you’d ask a politician, to defend an indefensible idea. Permalink to this paragraph