Go to the Politifact website ( HYPERLINK "http://www.politifact.com" www.politifact.com) and find a statement made by a politician that has been rated according to its "truthiness," then assess that statement utilizing Jurgen Habermas' ideas about consensus as it arises according to discourse.

-Political statements are not usually designed to reach consensus and those investigated by Politifact are especially likely to bend the truth. This is because politicians regularly put forth a limited truth within the current discourse; validity claims are questioned as politicians utterances are likely not designed toward understanding, they are not reliable, they are often insincere even though often normatively positioned to speak as if they are