Showing posts with label WisFactCheck. Show all posts
Showing posts with label WisFactCheck. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

PFB Smackdown: "WisFactCheck" and Wisconsin job creation

We at PolitiFact Bias emphasize in part sets of anecdotes as an evidence of PolitiFact's ideological bias.  Where the combined sets of anecdotes soft on liberals and those harsh on conservatives outweigh their opposites, a solid (though short of absolute proof) evidence of bias results.

Since the comparison between the sets of anecdotes affects the case for bias at PolitiFact, the "PFB Smackdown" feature takes the attempts by liberals to show a right-leaning bias at PolitiFact and exposes the errors therein.

Which brings us to "WisFactCheck":
Another day, another outrageous claim from the right-leaning Politifact.

The latest eyerolling claim from Politifact is that Sen. Lena Taylor's claim that Walker "has not created at single job" was not accurate:
We at PFB admit that PolitiFact's work exhibits problems that harm both conservatives and liberals at times.  And, of course, we expect that the legitimate examples of the former exceed those for the latter.  So what's the evidence in this case?