All posts tagged "Politifact"

Trump released his latest comically deceptive campaign ad, and as usual, all the mainstream cable outlets raced to be the first to air his fear-mongering garbage under the guise of relevant news analysis. Keep in mind that Trump doesn't even need to pay networks to play his ad since they already do it for free.

On her show Monday night, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow said that the website PolitiFact needed to "go away" or stop using the word fact in its name.

[rebelmouse-image 24750313 original_size="200x186" expand=1]I don't know what else to add to the discussion about this shameful move from Politifact to grab the brass ring of "non-partisan" by declaring a non-lie the "Lie of the Year". Paul Krugman explains it succiently:

The fact-checking website PolitiFact gave Jon Stewart a "false" rating on its Truth-O-Meter for claiming that Fox News viewers were consistently the most misinformed group of media consumers, but admitted Tuesday that a slew of readers had criticized their analysis.

WASHINGTON – Democrats on Thursday defended their assertion that Republicans "voted to end Medicare," after a respected fact-checking organization rated it among the most deceitful political lies.

WASHINGTON – The Pulitzer Prize-winning fact-checker PolitiFact took on the Republican claim that reducing tax rates has always produced higher federal revenues, rating it "false."