Politifraud, the self-appointed arbiter of “truth” has graded House Speaker John Boehner’s promise that he would fly commercial, unlike his predecessor, Democrat Nancy Pelosi who famously acted as though the U.S. Air Force was her own private airline. The grade from Politifact: “In the works.” Here’s their research: His spokesman, Michael Steel, told The Hill […]
Sunday morning White House chief of staff Jack Lew appeared on all 5 Sunday morning newscasts—ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, CNN—and on two of them he made similar false claims. CNN’s State of the Union: Liar, liar CROWLEY: And I know -- I want to talk about the tax hike in a second, but I want […]
President Obama and his administration haven’t been particularly understanding of religious beliefs—especially if they are in any way Christian and depart from any tenet of modern-day liberalism. The first evidence of this was the case of Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The case involved a private school teacher whom […]
Three separate fact checking organizations took a look at Slow Joe Biden’s demagogic statement I mentioned the other day about violent crime rates and Flint, Mich. According to The Washington Post’s Glenn Kessler, Biden’s claims are “absurd” and earns him 4 pinnochios – the most dishonest rating possible. FactCheck.org referred to Biden’s remarks as a […]
Too much of the mainstream media continues its feeble attempts to prop up President Obama’s class-warfare rhetoric with its ostensible “fact-checking.” Politifraud, which has too often been at the forefront of this effort, weighs in with this beauty, rating Obama’s claim that: "A construction worker who’s making $50 or $60 grand a year shouldn’t be […]
Yesterday I scanned through the Politifact archives looking for one thing when I came across another. Apparently Obama's lies weren't even believable back then.
First, the facts. Here’s a chart showing the employment picture since the start of the recession for the last 4 recessions. Here’s Mitt Romney: "It's been a failure in the last several years to get America back on track again. It's taken longer to get Americans back to work than it took during the Great […]
Politifact takes on Rep. Allen West and gives him a “mostly true.” West has been critical of the U.S. military actions in Libya launched in March. In a Miami Herald/St. Petersburg Times article on June 23, West was quoted as saying "We can't keep committing U.S. military to 'protect innocent civilians'; they're exhausted." He went […]
Last week, Politifact rated a claim by the Texas Public Policy Foundation that Texas had created more jobs over the last five years than the other 49 (or 56) states combined. In Politifact’s “analysis” this completely accurate statement was listed as “half-true.” The mental gymnastics required to come to this conclusion were summed up by […]
They just had to pass it. It had to be done immediately and reading that 2,000+ page piece of legislation was just too difficult. Now, as soon-to-be former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi lectured, we’re going to find out what’s in it. Today’s New York Times reveals that the answer isn’t good. In an unintended consequence […]