Lie of the Year

PolitiFact Defends Its 'Lie Of The Year'

PolitiFact | Posted 02.21.2012

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At a Republican campaign rally a few years ago, I asked one of the attendees how he got his news....

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PolitiFact Doubles Down On Epic 'Lie Of The Year' Disaster

Slate | Posted 12.27.2011

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After this week, plenty of pundits are well and done with the national version of PolitiFact. The local versions? They're great. I was actually pretty...

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Politifact's Road To Salvation

Dan Froomkin | Posted 02.20.2012

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Yesterday, I sent an email to Politifact editor Bill Adair, expressing my horror over his group's decision to designate "Republicans voted to kill Medicare" as the "lie of the year." Today, I'm sending him a draft of what I imagine his explanation should look like.

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Politifact Reveals 'Lie Of The Year'

Politifact | Bill Adair & Angie Drobnic Holan | Posted 05.25.2011

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The line stuck. By the time the health care bill was headed toward passage in early 2010, Obama and congressional Democrats had sanded down their prog...

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PolitiFact's 'Lie Of The Year': Death Panels

PolitiFact | Posted 05.25.2011

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Of all the falsehoods and distortions in the political discourse this year, one stood out from the rest. "Death panels." The claim set political...

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