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Showing posts with label W. Gardner Selby. Show all posts
Showing posts with label W. Gardner Selby. Show all posts
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 ...
Thursday, January 11, 2018

PolitiFact Texas transparency update

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In a post we titled " PolitiFact Texas unpublished " we described how PolitiFact Texas published an article declaring Gov. Greg Ab...
Tuesday, January 9, 2018

PolitiFact Texas unpublished (Updated x3)

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It seems like only yesterday we were praising PolitiFact Texas and W. Gardner Selby for taking an important step toward full transparency b...
Wednesday, January 3, 2018

'(PolitiFact's) rulings are based on when a statement was made and on the information available at that time'

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PolitiFact Texas issued a "False" rating to Gov. Greg Abbott on Nov. 16, 2017, finding it "False" that Texas had experie...
Friday, October 20, 2017

PolitiFact and the principle of inconsistency

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In October, six days apart, PolitiFact did fact checks on two parallel claims, each asserting the existence of a particular law. One, by U.S...
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Thursday, July 6, 2017

PolitiFact Texas uses tongs (2016)

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Our "tweezers or tongs" tag applies to cases where PolitiFact had a choice of a narrow focus on one part of a claim or a wider foc...
Thursday, August 18, 2016

PolitiFact says Democrat's statement is misleading and so rates it "True"

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It's really a very small wonder that PolitiFact remains so popular with the many Democrats who comment on PolitiFact's Facebook page...
Sunday, June 5, 2016

PolitiFact recycles garbage: "False" that Social Security is a Ponzi scheme

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Are the fact checkers at PolitiFact inept? Intentionally deceitful? Both? Jeff and I chat about that issue from time to time. We try to gi...
Friday, August 1, 2014

Something to see in Texas after all?

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We just finished updating one of our "Nothing To See Here" posts after PolitiFact Texas revisited a speech by Senator John Cornyn...
Thursday, December 1, 2011

Pete Sepp: "I don't know who the experts you consulted are or whatever policy agendas they may have"

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Pete Sepp, vice president for communications and policy for the National Taxpayers Union, usually interacts with PolitiFact as an expert sou...