January 17, 2010
Bias in media coverage

There’s lots of ways that the media can inject their biases into their coverage. Several years ago my case study of how The New York Times buried the lede in the the race for a Maryland Senate seat got me a mention in a media criticism textbook. But burying bad news deep down in a […]

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December 11, 2009
Politifalse

You know, it’s starting to be old hat bashing Politifact for its partisan “analysis” of various politicos’ statements, but this one is particularly outrageous. The target is GOP Rep. Mike Pence of Ohio Indiana and his “half true” statement is this: "To use money from the TARP fund in the manner that is being discussed […]

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September 19, 2009
It depends on what your definition of “truth” is

Former Bush 43 adviser Karl Rove made a statement on Fox News the other day that Politifact.com decided needed to be fact-checked. Rove’s statement: “Obama used to be a lawyer for ACORN.” Now, this is a fairly straightforward statement. It seems to me that it can only be “true” or “false.” There’s no gray there. […]

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September 12, 2009
Who’s lying now?

There’s been a big brouhaha in the media in the days after President Obama’s address to a joint session of Congress in which he didn’t say anything new on the subject of health care. The faux outrage has centered on Rep. Joe Wilson’s (R-S.C.) outburst of “You lie!” to President Obama’s claim that Democrat health […]

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August 2, 2009
Ideology or political reality?

The question for you today is which one will win out in President Obama’s decision-making process. This morning on “This Week with former Clinton adviser and Democrat activist George Stephanopoulous” interviewed Treasury Secretary Timothy “I never realized the housing market had collapsed” Geithner who made a rather stunning “gaffe.” (Using the Michael Kinsley definition of […]

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July 30, 2009
That must be the other President Obama

In an interview with Businessweek magazine, President Obama tells a whopper. A lot of business leaders consider you to be antibusiness. I was struck when I attended the Aspen Institute Ideas Festival. [Council of Economic Advisers member] Austan Goolsbee was speaking, and he hit a fairly hostile audience. These are wealthy, fairly progressive older people […]

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July 21, 2009
Governing is different

President Barack Obama has got some members of his own party up on Capitol Hill in a tizzy over something he vowed during the campaign he wouldn’t do – using signing statements to ignore selected provisions of bills passed by Congress. Four senior House Democrats on Tuesday said they were "surprised" and "chagrined" by Obama's […]

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June 25, 2009
The number you need to know

The House is scheduled to vote on the Waxman-Markey cap-and-tax bill tomorrow. Only in the bizarro world of Congress can elected representatives pass a massive tax hike in the middle of the worst economic crisis in at least 30 years -- in the form of a bill most of them haven't even read. There's a […]

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May 5, 2009
Even lefties can see it coming

While Politifact.com has determined that President Barack Obama has not really broken his promise not to raise taxes on the bottom 95 percent of by passing an increase in the cigarette tax, other liberals are convinced it's just a matter of time. Looking at the gap between revenues and costs for Obama's health care plans, […]

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April 30, 2009
Is the luster coming off?

Earlier this month I noted that the Associated Press' "Fact Check" feature was more critical of President Barack Obama than Politifact.com's when it came to whether or not the increased cigarette tax violated Obama's pledge not to raise taxes on anyone making less than $250,000. On Obama's 100th day, the AP came out with another […]

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