PolitiFact’s ‘mostly true’ rating of Marco Rubio statement is false, according to PolitiFact
Marco Rubio: "The majority of Americans are conservatives."
PolitiFact: "Mostly true."
Actual fact: A 40 percent plurality of Americans identify as conservative, not a majority. That's not just a temporary thing for this year; Gallup has never found a...
PolitiFact’s ‘mostly true’ rating of Marco Rubio statement is false, according to PolitiFact
Marco Rubio: "The majority of Americans are conservatives."
PolitiFact: "Mostly true."
Actual fact: A 40 percent plurality of Americans identify as conservative, not a majority. That's not just a temporary thing for this year; Gallup has never found a...
PolitiFact devolves into absurdity
I'm going to call it: PolitiFact has now devolved into farce. Sure, maybe some things are tough calls. It can be difficult to tease out facts, or find the most accurate statistics, or look something up from the old-timey days of the 1990s. But this on...
PolitiFact pants on fires itself in two paragraphs
Oh, PolitiFact:
Republican primary frontrunner Mitt Romney set off a firestorm on Jan. 9, 2012, when he said, "I like being able to fire people."
Or, at least, when Romney said something along those lines.
Mitt Romney didn't say "something along thos...
TV stations refuse to pull ad based on PolitiFact’s ‘lie of the year’ claim
So maybe PolitiFact isn't the arbiter of truth it wants to be, even in the traditional media. Greg Sargent reports on the refusal of two TV stations to yank Democratic ads making the claim that House Republicans voted to end Medicae.
Earlier this wee...
Fact checkers are not under assault—but poor fact checking should be
Sadly, this is not in the spirit of Christmas. I originally was going to write a charming tale about a Christmas-saving rodent of some kind, because people seem to like that sort of thing and because during Christmas-time, even disease-carrying vermin...
Fact checkers are not under assault—but poor fact checking should be
Sadly, this is not in the spirit of Christmas. I originally was going to write a charming tale about a Christmas-saving rodent of some kind, because people seem to like that sort of thing and because during Christmas-time, even disease-carrying vermin...
PolitiFact to critics: You’re all just whining partisans
If I were a PolitiFact editor, and I were responding to a wave of criticisms while simultaneously attempting to reassure readers that I was a serious person worthy of their future confidence, I would not have printed this self-promoting, narcissistic,...
Hey, PolitiFact … about that ‘journalistic research’ of yours …
Wisconsin Civil Justice Council President and National Federation of Independent Business State Director Bill G. Smith shake hands with Gov. Scott Walker, seated. (Photo from WCJC website.)
So what does that picture have to do with PolitiFact's lates...
PolitiFact’s ‘Lie of the Year’ didn’t come from Democrats. It came from the Wall Street Journal.
PolitiFact is spinning like a top.
A lot has been written about how PolitiFact's "Lie of the Year" is true. It turns out that in addition to asserting something true was false (lying!), PolitiFact omitted something major about the source of the lie s...
Paul Ryan pushing Politifact’s claim that Paul Ryan isn’t trying to end Medicare by lying
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) is trying to get his supporters to stuff the ballot box (voter fraud!!!) at PolitiFact to make the "lie of the year" the actual true claim that the Ryan plan would end Medicare.
But what's really good is how he does it: by making...
PolitiFact ’2011 Lie of the Year’ finalist … is true
PolitiFact has named the claim that Republicans voted to end Medicare a finalist for their "2011 Lie of the Year" award.
The only problem? Republicans did vote to end Medicare. Even PolitiFact conceded that Republicans voted to end Medicare "as we kno...
