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.
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 […]
Politifact likes to pat itself on the back for being non-partisan. It’s a crock. They’re little different than any major newspaper newsroom – they’re overwhelmingly liberal. James Taranto over at The Wall Street Journal points out a little bit of hypocrisy. "It's unfair to call the DeKalb school board corrupt. School employees, not board members, […]
Last year, when one iteration of the health care bill introduced us to “comparative effectiveness panels” that would decide on what sorts of medical treatments would get paid for under the new health care regime, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin referred to them as “death panels.” That earned her a “Pants on Fire” and “lie […]
UPDATED and BUMPED For those of you who don’t have employer-provided insurance and who have decided to insure your kids instead of yourselves – if this bill becomes law drop the coverage for your kids and get it for yourself. Why? Because as soon as the bill becomes law, it will be illegal to deny […]
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 […]
Pulitzer Prize-winning “fact-check” Web site Politifact.com has done it again. When last we criticized one of their findings, Politifact.com rated this statement by Rep. Mike Pence “half-true”: "To use money from the TARP fund in the manner that is being discussed by the White House and congressional Democrats would be a violation of the law." […]