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Showing posts with label Obviously it's Subjective. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Obviously it's Subjective. Show all posts
Thursday, June 8, 2023

Have politicians discovered asbestos pants? (Update/Correction)

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We think PolitiFact's "Truth-O-Meter" rating system offers ample evidence of PolitiFact's bias. Why? 1) It's an admitt...
Monday, December 16, 2019

A political exercise: PolitiFact chooses non-impactful (supposed) falsehood as its "Lie of the Year"

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PolitiFact chose President Trump's claim that a whistleblower's complaint about his phone call with Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelen...
Monday, February 5, 2018

Does "lowest" mean something different in Georgia than it does in Texas?

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Today PolitiFact National, posing as PolitiFact Georgia , called it "Mostly True" that Georgia has the lowest minimum wage in the ...
Tuesday, December 26, 2017

Not a Lot of Reader Confusion VIII

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We say that PolitiFact's graphs and charts, including its PunditFact collections of ratings for news networks, routinely mislead reader...
Friday, December 1, 2017

Not a Lot of Reader Confusion VII

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We say that PolitiFact's graphs and charts, including its PunditFact collections of ratings for news networks, routinely mislead readers...
Friday, November 10, 2017

'Not a lot of reader confusion' VI

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PolitiFact editor Angie Drobnic Holan has claimed she does not notice much reader confusion regarding the interpretation of PolitiFact's...
Monday, November 6, 2017

PolitiFact gives the 8 in 10 lie a "Half True."

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We can trust PolitiFact to lean left. Sometimes we bait PolitiFact into giving us examples of its left-leaning tendencies. On November 1, ...
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Wednesday, September 6, 2017

PolitiFact & Roy Moore: A smorgasbord of problems

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When PolitiFact unpublished its Sept. 1, 2017 fact check of a claim attacking Alabama Republican Roy Moore, we had our red flag to look into...
Sunday, July 30, 2017

"Not a lot of reader confusion" IV

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PolitiFact editor Angie Drobnic Holan has famously defended PolitiFact's various "report card" graphs by declaring she does no...
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Monday, February 20, 2017

PolitiFact's "Truth-O-Meter": Floor wax, or dessert topping?

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The different messages coming from PolitiFact founder Bill Adair and current PolitiFact managing editor Amy Hollyfield in recent interviews ...
Monday, November 21, 2016

Great Moments in the Annals of Subjectivity (Updated)

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Did Republican Donald Trump win the electoral college in a landslide? We typically think of a "landslide" as an overwhelming vic...
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Wednesday, November 9, 2016

Another day, another deceptive PolitiFact chart

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On election day, PolitiFact helpfully trotted out a set of its misleading "report card" graphs, including an updated version of...
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Saturday, May 14, 2016

PolitiFact's throne of lies

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PolitiFact editor Angie Drobnic Holan told some whoppers on May 13, 2016. We take a dim view here of fact checkers making stuff up. Here...
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Friday, November 20, 2015

PolitiFact gives Bernie Sanders "Mostly True" rating for false statement

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When Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said more than half of America's working blacks receive less than $15 per hour, PolitiFact investigated...
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Wednesday, December 24, 2014

PolitiFact editor explains the difference between "False" and "Pants on Fire"

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During an interview for a  "DeCodeDC" podcast, PolitiFact editor Angie Drobnic Holan explained to listeners the difference between...
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Tuesday, February 11, 2014

"The Heart of PolitiFact"

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We find it fundamentally dishonest the way PolitiFact treats its trademark "Truth-O-Meter" as though it's some sort of machine...
Friday, December 7, 2012

Dustin Siggins: The Most Overlooked 'Lie of the Year"

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Persistent PolitiFact critic Dustin Siggins wrote up a piece over at Red Alert Politics asking why the GOP's supposed War on Women was...