PolitiFact Proves Yet Again It Is a Left Wing Attack Machine With Nonpartisan Veneer

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  August 26th at 02:21 PM  | 

“Politifact’s fact is nothing more than their left-wing hypothesis disconnected from and ignoring every data point that doesn’t help them make their case.” As a general rule of thumb I heard somewhere, fact checkers don’t check facts. Fact checkers exist to put an objective, nonpartisan veneer on whatever some reporter wants to say. And when fact checkers take it upon themselves to be arbiters of | Read More »

Yet Again Politifact Shows Itself to be Leftist Propaganda Masquerading as an Agent of Truth

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  May 5th at 11:59 AM  | 

Politifact continues to masquerade as an agent of truth when it is, in fact, a mouthpiece for the left. It took great pains to slowly establish itself as something resembling a ref on a field, but once that reputation was established it has gone out of its way to peddle lefty talking points. Consider it labeling as “a lie” the accurate Republican claim that the | Read More »