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Tuesday, September 26, 2023

PolitiFact aids President Biden's post hoc ergo propter hoc deception

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 What can PolitiFact do to help President Biden? BOOM! : "But wait," our liberal or progressive friends might object. "That...
Tuesday, June 20, 2023

Married gays thrown out of restaurants? PolitiFact biased again

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Quite a few conservative outlets hit the story of PolitiFact defending President Biden's gays thrown out of restaurants claim: Newsbust...
Tuesday, June 13, 2023

Magical PolitiFact fact-checking defies context, turns ambiguity into specificity

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 When is a fact check not a fact check? A fact check isn't a fact check when it takes an ambiguous claim and checks it as though it'...
Friday, June 9, 2023

PolitiFact vs the strawman version of Nikki Haley's claim about teen girls and suicide

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 Strawmen are always in season at PolitiFact, particularly when a Republican speaks. Broken quotations always count as a red flag worth inve...
Thursday, June 8, 2023

Have politicians discovered asbestos pants? (Update/Correction)

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We think PolitiFact's "Truth-O-Meter" rating system offers ample evidence of PolitiFact's bias. Why? 1) It's an admitt...
Monday, January 2, 2023

PolitiFact's "Pants on Fire" bias in 2022

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Back in 2012 , we started an ongoing study of PolitiFact's bias particular to its decisions on "False" versus "Pants on ...
Monday, December 19, 2022

PolitiFact's gender pay gap shenanigans continue (2022 edition)

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PolitiFact has completed quite a few fact checks touching the gender wage gap. And a Dec. 16, 2022 item from PolitiFact Wisconsin carries ...
Thursday, December 1, 2022

More PedantiFact: PolitiFact vs. Kevin McCarthy

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 Fact checkers supposedly don't fact check opinions. PolitiFact fact checks opinions. Real Clear Politics has kept a study going looking...