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Showing posts with label Louis Jacobson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Louis Jacobson. Show all posts
Saturday, May 9, 2026

PolitiFact effortlessly extends exaggerated charitable interpretation to Democrat's claim

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We encourage charitable interpretation when interpreting political claims. Fact checkers, for example, should follow contextual indicators s...
Thursday, April 16, 2026

PolitiFact quote chops Trump down to a "False" rating

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 It's weird to see one of the supposed great lights of contemporary journalism engage in conduct that wouldn't fly in an introductor...
Sunday, June 23, 2024

Snopes (indirectly) calls out PolitiLie

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On twiX (X, formerly known as Twitter) I learned today that Snopes now calls it false that Donald Trump called neo-Nazis and white supremac...
Thursday, February 22, 2024

PolitiFact's how-to primer on improperly fact-checking an analogy

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There's so much wrong with this Feb. 22, 2024 PolitiFact fact check that I'm bound to go way beyond the scope of the title. How To ...
Sunday, December 10, 2023

Example Umpteen Showing How PolitiFact Goes Easier on Democrats

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We only wish we had the time and money needed to document as much as 10 percent of PolitiFact's flawed and biased work. We've docume...
Friday, June 9, 2023

PolitiFact vs the strawman version of Nikki Haley's claim about teen girls and suicide

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 Strawmen are always in season at PolitiFact, particularly when a Republican speaks. Broken quotations always count as a red flag worth inve...
Thursday, December 1, 2022

More PedantiFact: PolitiFact vs. Kevin McCarthy

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 Fact checkers supposedly don't fact check opinions. PolitiFact fact checks opinions. Real Clear Politics has kept a study going looking...
Thursday, September 22, 2022

PolitiSpin: Biden says he cut the debt by $1.5 trillion? Half True!

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We kiddeth not when we call PolitiFact a collection of liberal bloggers posing as non-partisan fact checkers. U.S. debt hasn't gone down...
Wednesday, June 1, 2022

Literally false and the underlying point is false, therefore "Mostly True"

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 Have we mentioned PolitiFact is biased? Check out this epic fail from the liberal bloggers at PolitiFact (red x added): PolitiFact found it...
Saturday, March 12, 2022

Yes, Virginia, state franchise "star chambers" are still a thing

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As I noted over at Zebra Fact Check , PolitiFact is saying the people who decide a "Truth-O-Meter" rating have years of PolitiFact...
Wednesday, December 15, 2021

LIndsey Graham out of context

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Here we go again. PolitiFact has had quite a run in 2021 when it comes to taking Republicans' claims out of context. This latest one fo...
Sunday, August 8, 2021

PolitiFact attack on DeSantis attacks a straw man

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PolitiFact's supposed fact check of Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) of Florida did not fact check what DeSantis said. Instead it attacked a straw ...
Tuesday, June 8, 2021

PolitiFact turns incoherent Obama statement into "Half True" claim

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  Behold : Remember President Obama the constitutional scholar ?   Here, the constitutional scholar makes the ability of 30 percent of the U...
Sunday, March 7, 2021

Layers of Editors: How fast is PolitiFact's stupidity growing?

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Uh-oh! PolitiFact's incompetence unfairly harmed a Democrat again! This time it was hapless Joe Biden who ended up with the short straw ...
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Monday, February 22, 2021

PolitiFact's "In Context" deception (Updated)

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In (a) perfect world, fact checkers would publish "In Context" features that simply offer surrounding context with objective expla...