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Think Again: As a Matter of Fact

Eric Alterman | Posted 05.17.2012

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When fact-checking organizations tend to find many more conservative lies than liberal ones, rather than respond that conservatives tell far more lies, the fact-checkers go looking for liberal fabrications and find them whether they exist or not.

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WATCH: Rachel Maddow Blows Up At Her Arch-Nemesis

Posted 05.11.2012

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Rachel Maddow took on her arch-nemesis Politifact again on Thursday, begging the fact-checking organization to "go away" after what she saw as another...

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Walker Is the "False Statement" Champion

Jon Richards | Posted 04.25.2012

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Earlier this year during a televised visit to a conservative think tank in Washington, Walker said he was a "great believer in the truth" as he tried to defend his terrible record as governor. Politifact hasn't rated this Walker statement yet, but this one's easy. It gets a Pants-on-Fire False.

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Grading Barack Obama's First Term

Matthew Lynch, Ed.D. | Posted 04.23.2012

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When Obama assumed the presidency, he was charged with resolving a nasty set of problems and issues. In response to this, his administration rose to the challenge and fostered positive change and progress in America.

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Romney Campaign Demands Correction From PolitiFact On Women's Job Loss Claim

HuffingtonPost.com | Jon Ward | Posted 04.11.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Mitt Romney's top policy adviser sent a letter to PolitiFact.com on Wednesday demanding that the fact-checking site "retract" an article...

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Ignoring Context, Romney Campaign Keeps Hammering Women's Job Loss Number

The Huffington Post | Jon Ward | Posted 04.11.2012

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On a conference call Wednesday morning, the Mitt Romney campaign continued to repeat their new mantra that women have suffered 92 percent of job losse...

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Mitt Romney Is a Hollow Man

Gov. Jennifer M. Granholm | Posted 04.10.2012

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What does this man stand for? Why does he even want to be president? Where is his true vision, his core? Does he even have one?

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"Obama? I Wouldn't Vote for That Socialite"

Bernard Starr | Posted 05.26.2012

If you don't know the difference between a socialite and socialist, you are a prime candidate for the U.S. Republican debate team.

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PolitiFact Changes Marco Rubio Rating After Scathing Criticism

Posted 02.27.2012

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Fact-checking organization PolitiFact has changed its rating about a claim made by Sen. Marco Rubio, after the piece was harshly criticized and questi...

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Politifact's Rates Lawrence O'Donnell's 'Lean Forward' Ad

Posted 02.19.2012

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MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell is the topic of a new rating by fact-checking site, Politifact. Politifact looked into O'Donnell after a reader asked t...

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PolitiFact Successfully Trolls Media With Rubio Ruling

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 02.15.2012

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In recent months, I've had the occasion to throw shade on PolitiFact for some of its odder determinations, most notably the decision to call a totally...

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WATCH: Rachel Maddow Flips Out On Politifact

Posted 02.27.2012

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Rachel Maddow let the folks at Politifact have it again on her Tuesday show. Maddow, who is a harsh critic of the organization and its "truth-o-me...

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WATCH: Maddow Explodes At PolitiFact

Posted 03.27.2012

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Rachel Maddow lit into controversial fact-checking outfit PolitiFact with notable fury on her Wednesday show, hammering the organization for a series ...

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Politifact Backtracks After State Of The Union Fact Check Wreck

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.26.2012

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In the continuing annals of Politifact oddness, it seems that during the initial truth-squadding of last night's State Of The Union address, the fact-...

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When Fact Checkers Go Bad... Very Bad

Jared Bernstein | Posted 03.26.2012

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Politifact -- the self-anointed fact checkers -- graded a statement from the president's speech as "half-true." But the statement is not half true or even two-thirds true. It is just true.

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From Politifact, A Premature 'Pants On Fire' For Romney

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.19.2012

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Over at Politico, Dylan Byers makes a great catch and turns in a piece that offers some insight into how your Politifact sausage gets made. Seems ...

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New Hampshire Television Stations Find Politifact's "Lie Of The Year" Argument Lacking

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.11.2012

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One thing that should, by now, be painfully obvious to any political observer who's mastered some basic achievements in cognitive development is that ...

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Progressive Ad Faces GOP Challenge

The Washington Post | Greg Sargent | Posted 01.10.2012

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When PolitiFact labeled the claim that the GOP voted to end Medicare its "Lie of the Year," this was seen as a big deal in Washington, because it sugg...

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Your Weekend Random-Ass Roundup: A Christmas Wish

J.D. Bell | Posted 02.22.2012

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All I want for Christmas is to never hear about Michelle Obama's ass again. Unless it's at my barbershop. Now come, ye faithful readers. Gather round...

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When Medicare Isn't Medicare

Wendell Potter | Posted 02.25.2012

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If backers of Ryan's plan would drop the word "Medicare" and name it something with a bunch of numbers and a letter or two in parenthesis, that would be far more honest than calling it Medicare or anything similar.

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PaulitiFact's Top 10 Lies of 2011

Paul Abrams | Posted 02.22.2012

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Just as we at PaulitiFact believed we had our list all set and agreed by everyone, new lies continued to spew forth faster than stink on you-know-what. Like Congress, we have had to delay our departure for the holidays because we were knee-deep in that stuff.

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Bitter Editorial Rant Kills Fact Checker Model, 'Ends Politifact As We Know It'

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 02.21.2012

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Politifact editor Bill Adair probably ruined his outlet's chances of ever being taken seriously again as an objective debunker of political spin. What a shame. There's a glaring need for somebody to play that role, and Politifact was in a unique position to fill it.

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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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Lumps of Coal for Democrat Wimps and Dupes and Fact Checkers Who Need to Get Their Facts Straight

Wendell Potter | Posted 02.21.2012

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Knowing from personal experience how beneficial lumps of coal can be at the holidays, I have decided to give out a few lumps of my own to folks whose recent actions make them deserving recipients.

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