Saying it doesn’t make it so
By Matthew Hoy on March 5, 2010
Politifact.com, which is routinely an object of scorn here, has this interesting bit in its latest mailbag feature.
There are the e-mailers who criticize us generally for perceived liberal bias. (For the record, we are an independent, nonpartisan journalism organization.)
For the record, I’m often mistaken for Brad Pitt and have women throwing themselves at me dozens of times a day, begging to have my baby and showering me with expensive gifts.
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