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Monday, March 23, 2015

Fact checking the PolitiFact way

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Okay, kids, today we're going to look at how to fact check the PolitiFact way. We'll look at how to tell whether President Obama...
Sunday, March 15, 2015

More PolitiMath, featuring PunditFact and Jalen Ross

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In the past, we've pointed out the tendency at PolitiFact to make mistakes on basic math ( and the tendency of Democrats to receive bene...
Tuesday, March 3, 2015

PolitiFact & Israel, thousand words edition

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The left-wing bloggers at PolitiFact used Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu's address to Congress to throw out more clickbait: Come see a...
Friday, February 20, 2015

Hot Air: "PolitiFact’s Lie of the Year of 2014 falls apart only two months later"

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Noah Rothman of the conservative site Hot Air offers a reminder that PolitiFact's 2014 "Lie of the Year" was a train wreck : ...
Thursday, February 19, 2015

PolitiFact's latest survey on Rush Limbaugh

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We've long criticized PolitiFact's habit of presenting its "report cards" summing up its findings on political personaliti...

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...
Thursday, February 12, 2015

Courting the journo-lobbyist

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PolitiFact, the hapless fact checkers/liberal bloggers with whom we find fault almost daily, has a history going back to 2007 of inviting r...
Monday, February 9, 2015

Justin Katz: 'Friday Fun: “PolitiFact Can”'

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We've shared material from Rhode Island's Justin Katz with our readers before, but today we're honored to share Katz's paro...