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Showing posts with label The Ratings Game. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Ratings Game. Show all posts
Friday, September 22, 2017

Joy Behar lies 100 percent of the time. It's from PolitiFact.

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Of course the title of this post is intended solely to draw attention to its content. We do not think Joy Behar lies 100 percent of the time...
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Wednesday, October 26, 2016

Adding an annotation to PolitiFact's annotation of the third 2016 presidential debate

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Is it news that fact-checkers are far from perfect? Behold, a screen capture from PolitiFact's annotated version of the third presidenti...
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Wednesday, October 12, 2016

'Stronger'='Better'? Pretty much, says PolitiFact

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PolitiFact continues to determinedly destroy whatever credibility it has outside its group of left-wing devotees . Our latest example cons...
Thursday, September 8, 2016

More unprincipled principles from PolitiFact (Updated)

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When PolitiFact released its politisplainer video on its fact-checking process, "The PolitiFact Process," we responded with an ann...
Wednesday, December 2, 2015

Just wondering

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A Dec. 2, 2015 fact check from the national PolitiFact outfit looks at Democratic Party presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's claim ...
Thursday, January 30, 2014

PolitiFact: half mostly false, therefore false

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It's PolitiFact potpourri! We've had something like this happen at least once before, with Mitt Romney the focus of the fact chec...
Tuesday, October 29, 2013

More PolitiPundit

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We've written before about (former PolitiFact editor) Bill Adair's desire to have it both ways with regard to PolitiFact's ratin...
Friday, April 12, 2013

The Houston Chronicle: "Half of Ted Cruz’s political claims are false, PolitiFact reports" and "Ted Cruz v. PolitiFact: Whose pants are on fire?"

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Joanna Raines of the Houston Chronicle wrote a story on March 28 attempting to report PolitiFact's assessment of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas)...
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Sunday, January 20, 2013

PolitiFact Georgia publishes inaccurate stats for 2012?

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These are definitely the people we want doing our fact checks. PolitiFact Georgia published a statistical breakdown of its fact checks for...
Sunday, September 2, 2012

Disconnect at PolitiFact Ohio

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Nothing's better than getting PolitiFact editors on the record about PolitiFact.  Their statements probably do more than anything else t...
Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Tommy Christopher: "My conclusion isn't all that different from yours"

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We panned Mediaite's Tommy Christopher over his critique of PolitiFact earlier this week.  Christopher has responded via Twitter, resu...
Sunday, August 12, 2012

PFB Smackdown: Mediaite's Tommy Christopher (Updated/Corrected)

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We use the PFB Smackdown feature to critique the worst of the left's best critiques of PolitiFact. I get another excuse to say the p...
Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Virginia Watchdog: "State GOP criticizes PolitiFact for bias"

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Virginia Watchdog takes note of the Republican Party of Virginia's critique of PolitiFact Virginia.  We at PolitiFact Bias reviewed the...
Sunday, May 6, 2012

Balancing act at PolitiFact Ohio?

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Since its 2011 "Lie of the Year," the claim from Democrats that Republicans voted to end Medicare, PolitiFact has found itself try...
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Tuesday, April 3, 2012

James Wigderson: "Looking for the 'Pants on Fire' rating"

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James Wigderson of the Wigderson Library & Pub offered a critique of PolitiFact late last year that we failed to highlight (we'll ex...