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Showing posts with label Martha Hamilton. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 12, 2016

True statements ruled "Mostly False"

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What happens when PolitiFact finds that a statement is literally true? That issue was brought up indirectly when Jeff retweeted economist ...
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Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Flashback Oct. 2010: "Just the Hacks, Ma'am"

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Note:  Jeff D. originally posted this story about PolitiFact's treatment of Obama's campaign contribution policies back in October ...
Thursday, August 30, 2012

A Little Bit More and We'll Be Inches Away from Hacks

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Sometimes PolitiFact's assault on consistency is so overwhelmingly obvious, it makes my brain hurt. Do these people even keep track of w...
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Wednesday, July 25, 2012

The Weekly Standard: "PolitiFact Mucks Up the Contraception Debate"

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This year has sped by at a breathtaking pace so far, and we've neglected to review some worthy stories about PolitiFact simply because w...
Wednesday, June 20, 2012

The Weekly Standard: "Romney to PolitiFact: There You Go Again"

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The Weekly Standard 's Mark Hemingway was back in PolitiFact's grille back in April. PolitiFact ruled "Mostly False" a...
Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Grading PolitiFact: Obama, Bush and the auto bailout

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Crossposted from Sublime Bloviations . Context matters -- We examine the claim in the full context, the comments made before and after i...
Thursday, March 1, 2012

Tales of the Unexpected, featuring PolitiFact

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 Crossposted from Sublime Bloviations You have to love PolitiFact's fact-challenged statements about itself. Now : We’ve consiste...
Wednesday, February 15, 2012

What's Wrong With the World: "How to Lie with Statistics, Example Umpteen"

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Jeff and I hugely appreciate bloggers who delve into the more complicated PolitiFact-related issues. Lydia McGrew of the " What's...
Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Hoystory: "Obama’s War on Religion and Conscience"

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Matthew Hoy is back at it with his usual biting commentary on PolitiFact. This time he shares his thoughts on the current debate about the...
Tuesday, January 31, 2012

The Weekly Standard: PolitiFact Can’t Get Its Story Straight on Romneycare and Abortion

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Does the truth have a shelf-life? Jeffrey H. Anderson, writing at the Weekly Standard , takes the fact-finding DeLorean all the way back t...
Friday, January 27, 2012

Liberals late to the party on PolitiFact

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As expected, PolitiFact's 2011 "Lie of the Year" selection did a good bit of damage to PolitiFact's reputation on the left...
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Thursday, January 19, 2012

Big Tent: "A PolitiFact Example"

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Blogger and PolitiFact-cited expert Tom Bruscino supplies a partial insider's look at the PolitiFact process along with a critique of th...
Thursday, November 3, 2011

Matthew Hoy: "You guys screwed up"

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Ordinarily we highlight Matthew Hoy's criticisms of PolitiFact via the posts at his blog, Hoystory .  But this time we catch Hoy at his ...
Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Grading PolitiFact: Joe Biden and the Flint crime rate

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(crossposted from Sublime Bloviations with minor reformatting) To assess the truth for a numbers claim, the biggest factor is the underl...
Monday, August 1, 2011

My Domestic Church: "Analyzing political analysis -Politifact and Bill O'Reilly"

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Blogger "Elena" at My Domestic Church ( mydomesticchurch.com ) notices the bias at PolitiFact: This recent article on Politifact ...
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