We have come to the end of another year, and so it is once again time for PolitiFact to tell us what the 2012 "Lie Of The Year" is. For me, it's prett...
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.
One thing that should, by now, be painfully obvious to any political observer who's mastered some basic achievements in cognitive development is that ...
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...
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...
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.
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.
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...
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...