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Thursday, July 25, 2024
PolitiFact's "border czar" two-step
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Unfortunately it surprises us not at all to see faux fact checkers PolitiFact aligning with the media denial that presumptive Democratic pr...
Thursday, July 11, 2024
PolitiFact's Humpty Dumpty act on 'abortion'
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It was Lewis Carroll's fictional character Humpty Dumpty who gave us one of the classic quotes regarding word games: ‘When I use a wor...
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Friday, July 5, 2024
PolitiFingers on the scale: Presidential debate edition
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As we have documented over the years, PolitiFact's supposedly objective system affords its writers and editors myriad ways of inserting...
Sunday, June 23, 2024
Snopes (indirectly) calls out PolitiLie
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On twiX (X, formerly known as Twitter) I learned today that Snopes now calls it false that Donald Trump called neo-Nazis and white supremac...
Saturday, April 20, 2024
PolitiFact says "Biden trial" means orchestrated by President Biden--but why?
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Remember last post I reminded readers that a "False" or "Pants on Fire" rating on the "Truth-O-Meter" serves ...
Thursday, April 11, 2024
And, a farcical "Pants on Fire" for Donald J. Trump
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As our "Pants on Fire" bias study regularly points out, PolitiFact's "Pants on Fire" rating counts as substantially...
Saturday, April 6, 2024
PolitiFact's farcical "Pants on Fire" for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (Updated)
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Robert F. Kennedy's presidential bid has taken its toll on our "Pants on Fire" bias study. Kennedy claimed half the two "...
Thursday, February 29, 2024
PolitiFact's "no spin" lie
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Apparently PolitiFact's hot new method for getting people to trust their work is to lie to them. I see it at the top of every fact chec...
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