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PolitiFact on Mitt Romney: It’s not flip-flopping … it’s ‘internal inconsistency’

This is the devastating DNC web video that has got PolitiFact so alarmed   Just as it did earlier on the issue of health care reform, PolitiFact says it wasn't fair for Democrats to call this a flip-flop*: Screen text: For assault weapons ban Vi...

Fact check comedy hour: PolitiFact thinks Mitt Romney didn’t flip-flop on health care reform

Two years ago, Mitt Romney appeared on national television and said he supported delivering coverage to uninsured Americans through a system of federal health care exchanges—highly-regulated markets in which individuals can purchase private health i...

Watch out, Occupy Wall Street: PolitiFact is ‘fact checking’ your homemade signs

In the annals of Politifact, never* has the publication sunk this low: In downtown Providence, as in other cities around the globe, protesters inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement are trying to raise awareness about economic inequalities. On a ...

Watch out, Occupy Wall Street: PolitiFact is ‘fact checking’ your homemade signs

In the annals of Politifact, never* has the publication sunk this low: In downtown Providence, as in other cities around the globe, protesters inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement are trying to raise awareness about economic inequalities. On a ...

Another loser from PolitiFact: Joe Biden accurately citing accurate crime stats = ‘Mostly True’

If you didn't already think that PolitiFact was a joke, their latest "fact check" ought to seal it. Their target is a speech Joe Biden made last week: We were intrigued by comments Biden made in Flint, Mich., on Oct. 12, 2011: "In 2008, when Flint had...

PolitiFact doesn’t understand taxes, randomly decides Obama’s statements must be only ‘half true’

Hackery in action: Obama has made a sweeping statement that it’s common, even typical, for a $50,000-a-year construction worker to pay a higher tax rate than someone earning $50 million a year. The reality is that it’s hard to know for sure. So ho...

PolitiFact doesn’t understand taxes, randomly decides Obama’s statements must be only ‘half true’

Hackery in action: Obama has made a sweeping statement that it’s common, even typical, for a $50,000-a-year construction worker to pay a higher tax rate than someone earning $50 million a year. The reality is that it’s hard to know for sure. So ho...

PolitiFact doesn’t understand taxes, randomly decides Obama’s statements must be only ‘half true’

Hackery in action: Obama has made a sweeping statement that it’s common, even typical, for a $50,000-a-year construction worker to pay a higher tax rate than someone earning $50 million a year. The reality is that it’s hard to know for sure. So ho...

Politifact: Cantor’s claim that Affordable Care Act a "job killer"? False.

Eric Cantor, the darling of beltway insiders who still treat Republicans as people who have real policy ideas, has used his position as the "deep thinker" in the GOP to push the lie that the Affordable Care Act is a "job killer." How do we know it's a lie? Well, AP and McClatchy have

PolitiFact’s Lie of the Year: ‘A government takeover of health care’

It was a crowded field this year, but PolitiFact has named their Lie of the Year:

In the spring of 2009, a Republican strategist settled on a brilliant and powerful attack line for President Barack Obama's ambitious plan to overhaul America's health insurance system. Frank Luntz, a consultant famous for his phraseology,...

In which Politifact’s label of "obscure" is rated "False"

Politifact:

It isn't often that U.S. campaigns venture into Latin American retirement policy, but the knock-down, drag-out battle for a Nevada Senate seat has done just that.



It came up in an ad run by the Patriot Majority PAC, an obscure Washington-based group that appears to be spending big money on...

Fact-checking the news

Is this good or simply pathetic news from Jake Tapper?

As you may know, we’re trying out some new things on THIS WEEK ...

This week we’ve invited Pulitzer Prize winning website PolitiFact to fact-check the newsmaker interviews featured on the program.

... starting this Sunday April 12, after the...

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