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Showing posts with label sublime bloviations. Show all posts
Saturday, August 18, 2012

Different but Equal: PolitiFact Jumps on the "Ryan cuts Medicare" Bandwagon

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This week's liberal talking point fact-checking effort from PolitiFact comes in the form of giving Stephanie Cutter a "True" ...
Friday, August 10, 2012

PolitiFlub: PolitiFact again ignores data on effective federal tax rates

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 Crossposted from Sublime Bloviations PolitiFact's latest fact check involving federal taxation sticks with its persistent pattern o...
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Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Grading PolitiFact: Characterizing Mitt Romney's characterization of Obama

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Crossposted from Sublime Bloviations PolitiFact's attempt to use an "In Context" item to soften the negative effects of Pre...
Monday, July 16, 2012

PolitiFact exaggerates its reluctance to grade hyperbole

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Crossposted from Sublime Bloviations Sometimes PolitiFact just can't bring itself to rate a statement on its cheesy "Truth-O-Me...
Thursday, June 7, 2012

PolitiFact uses "In Context" feature to vanish Bill Clinton's clearest statement on tax hikes

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Crossposted from Sublime Bloviations I was intrigued to see the latest "In Context" article at PolitiFact minutes ago.  I was i...

(for Glenn Kessler and PolitiFact) How to fact check the job recovery numbers

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Originally posted on May 14, 2012 at Sublime Bloviations A valuable media watchdog watchdog post at the new blog " counterirritant ...
Sunday, May 27, 2012

Nutting doing: PolitiFact's inadequate excuse

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Crossposted from Sublime Bloviations This week many liberals jumped on the meme that President Obama has the lowest spending record of ...
Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Sublime Bloviations: Grading PolitiFact (Florida): Is U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Bill Nelson ad accurate?

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PFB editor Bryan White takes an in-depth look at a recent PolitiFact rating that is a good example of the Pulitzer winners' habit of i...
Tuesday, May 1, 2012

NPR and truth-hustler guests Adair and Nyhan

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Crossposted from Sublime Bloviations . National Public Radio brought two of my favorite truth-hustlers on its "All Things Considere...
Thursday, March 29, 2012

PolitiFact rolls out new feature, continues to ignore selection bias

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Crossposted from Sublime Bloviations I've belabored the point that PolitiFact pushes its candidate "report cards" without o...
Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Grading PolitiFact: Obama, Bush and the auto bailout

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Crossposted from Sublime Bloviations . Context matters -- We examine the claim in the full context, the comments made before and after i...
Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Sublime Bloviations: "PolitiFlub: Udderly confused by EPA milk regs"

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 Crossposted from Sublime Bloviations . This. just. doesn't. look. very. easy. to. reconcile: (link to story at PolitiFac...
Monday, November 21, 2011

Hope 'n' change at PolitiFact

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Crossposted from Sublime Bloviations  I keep hoping that criticism will influence positive change at PolitiFact, the fact checking arm o...
Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Grading PolitiFact: Joe Biden and the Flint crime rate

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(crossposted from Sublime Bloviations with minor reformatting) To assess the truth for a numbers claim, the biggest factor is the underl...
Saturday, October 15, 2011

Sublime Bloviations: "PolitiFlub: The employee contribution to Social Security"

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It's not often PolitiFact alters their standards so quickly on the exact same topic, but it happens.  We spotted it right away and PFB...
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Monday, October 3, 2011

Sublime Bloviations: President Obama and the Buffett Fallacy

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Daryl Hannah once taught us that mermaids can only survive in the water. In a similar fantastic vein, the "fact" that Warren Buff...