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Showing posts with label shifting standards. Show all posts
Showing posts with label shifting standards. Show all posts
Saturday, June 25, 2022

PolitiFact: How can we rig this abortion fact check to help President Biden?

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Day by day, it's amazing to watch the kind of material PolitiFact publishes as supposedly " not biased " fact-checking. From y...
Tuesday, October 30, 2018

PolitiScam: It's Not What You Say, It's How PolitiFact Frames It

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PolitiFact's Oct. 29, 2018 fact check of President Trump gave us yet another illustration of PolitiFact's inconsistent application ...
Wednesday, October 12, 2016

Quoting quotations that aren't

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A comparison of two recent PolitiFact ratings involving Democrat Tim Kaine and Republican Mike Pence Fresh from our post about PolitiFact ...
Thursday, January 14, 2016

PolitiFact's Policy Plinko: What Rules Get Applied Today?

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Yesterday Bryan wrote a piece  noting PolitiFact ignores their own policies in favor of subjective whim and it's easy to find evidence s...
Wednesday, January 13, 2016

PolitiFact: Point? What underlying point?

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In January 2012 PolitiFact's founding editor Bill Adair famously--at least we've tried to make it famous-- assured PolitiFact's ...
Friday, December 18, 2015

PolitiFact and opt-in polling

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On Dec. 9, 2015, PolitiFact doled out a "Mostly False" to Donald Trump. Trump had cited an opt-in poll that found about 25 perce...
Wednesday, December 9, 2015

PolitiFact defines "bailout" (Updated)

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On Dec. 1, 2015, PolitiFact handed down a "Mostly False" rating on Marco Rubio's claim he prevented a $2.5 billion bailout of...
Thursday, February 19, 2015

Fifty shades of "Half True"

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PolitiFact's founding editor, Bill Adair, has said the truth is often not black and white , but gray: Our Truth-O-Meter is based on th...