Pages

▼
Monday, September 23, 2013

Gingrich/O'Malley: The Fix is In

›
With our previous post we took note of PolitiFact taking the unusual though not unprecedented step of unpublishing a story while preparing...
Friday, September 20, 2013

PolitiFact unpublishes its judgment of the Gingrich/O'Malley match on CNN

›
The title says it all.  PolitiFact's article, judging by PolitiFact's Twitter feed, lasted about an hour.  PolitiFact, so far as we ...
Sunday, September 15, 2013

PolitiMath at PolitiFact Florida

›
For some time we've been interested in how PolitiFact handles the magnitude of error for numbers claims.  We refer to ratings that appar...
Sunday, September 8, 2013

Bill Clinton enthralls PolitiFact with the magic of ObamaCare

›
Former President Bill Clinton was a great liar. He hasn't lost it. What made the former president from Arkansas such a fine liar?  P...
Friday, September 6, 2013

PolitiFact and Obama's red line on Syria

›
PolitiFact published one of its hilariously non-committal "In Context" items in honor of President Obama's waffled messaging ...
Monday, August 19, 2013

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

›
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

›
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"

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