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Showing posts with label Molly Moorhead. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Molly Moorhead. 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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Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Flub & Scrub: Mitch McConnell edition, Part II

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On May 28 PolitiFact published a new version of its May 24 fact check of Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). It's mostly bad, but we'll...
Monday, November 5, 2012

When is a tax that isn't a tax a tax?

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On Oct. 5, 2012 PolitiFact published a fact check examining Vice President Joe Biden's claim that the Ryan budget would result in a $460...
Tuesday, October 9, 2012

The burden of the burden of proof

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Often we have criticized PolitiFact for employing a potentially fallacious criterion among its principles (emphasis added): Burden of pro...
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Tuesday, September 11, 2012

PolitiFact and the gutting of Welfare reform (Updated)

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Many of us on the political right heard about the Obama administration's proposed waivers for Welfare work requirements cast in a frame ...
Monday, July 23, 2012

counterirritant: "Holy Misrepresentation, Batman!"

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Alternate title:  "The unBainable lightness of Bane" The intermittent "counterirritant" returns with another critique ...
Monday, July 16, 2012

PolitiFact exaggerates its reluctance to grade hyperbole

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Crossposted from Sublime Bloviations Sometimes PolitiFact just can't bring itself to rate a statement on its cheesy "Truth-O-Me...
Friday, June 22, 2012

Left jab: Jared Bernstein and median income in Romney's Massachusetts

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Much of the criticism of PolitiFact from liberals is lame.  On occasion, however, a liberal makes a pretty good point, and Jared Bernstein m...
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...
Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Hoystory: "Also known as 'Promise Kept'"

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When does a promise qualify as being kept?  It depends. Matthew Hoy of Hoystory highlights the stratospheric standards of the self-appoint...
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...
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...
Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Sublime Bloviations: "PolitiFlub: Udderly confused by EPA milk regs"

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 Crossposted from Sublime Bloviations . This. just. doesn't. look. very. easy. to. reconcile: (link to story at PolitiFac...