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Monday, August 19, 2013

"The Most Notable Example" of PolitiFact's Bumbling Bias

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Could the most notable example of PolitiFact Ohio's fact checking prowess be a claim they never actually rated? We'll get to that,...
Wednesday, August 7, 2013

PFB Smackdown: Paul Krugman on PolitiFact and Eric Cantor

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On August 4 this past week, PolitiFact rated "Half True" Rep. Eric Cantor's (R-Va.) statement that the nation faced an "...
Wednesday, July 3, 2013

John Sexton: "Politifact Faults Perry for Believing Wendy Davis' Misleading Statements"

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Via Breitbart.com , writer John Sexton notes that a claim PolitiFact rated "Half True" from Texas governor Rick Perry about state ...
Monday, June 3, 2013

Elspeth Reeve's "tea party" hypothesis

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We've written a good amount recently about the George Mason University study of PolitiFacts ratings.  GMU's Center for Media and Pub...
Sunday, June 2, 2013

PolitiFact's Paradoxical Positions: The Conflicting Claims of Bill Adair

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A press release for a study by George Mason University ( CMPA ) last week garnered wide attention, though, hilariously, for the wrong reason...
Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Flub & Scrub: Mitch McConnell edition, Part II

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On May 28 PolitiFact published a new version of its May 24 fact check of Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). It's mostly bad, but we'll...

About that George Mason University study showing PolitiFact rates Republicans as less truthful ...

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Just about every media outlet has flubbed the reporting on that study from George Mason University that says PolitiFact finds Republicans l...
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Tuesday, May 28, 2013

PolitiFact is "Not Far" from "Large-Scale" Inconsistencies

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Just over a week ago we highlighted PolitiFact's dubious rating of radio host John DePetro. The problem with that rating was simple: De...