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• Death Panel Myth Returns! Just in time for Christmas

  
  The Liberal OC — Authority: 528
  Sarah Palin It seems that once the right-wing noise machine realized that they would be unable to stop health care reform legislation in the Senate they reverted to  PolitiFacts Lie of the Year ,   Death Panels , to scare the hell out of people; just in time for Christmas. Palin, Morris, Limbaugh, and ...
  2 days ago

• Palin Earns First Ever Lie of the Year Award

  
  CafeSentido.com — Authority: 481
  The pulitzer prize-winning news service PolitiFact.com, a fact-checking operation of the St. Petersburg Times,  has awarded Sarah Palin its first ever “Lie of the Year” award , for her patently false claim that healthcare reform legislation would create “death panels”. Properly told, the lie of the year is ...
  3 days ago

• Bachmann leads in new poll; most say she prefers DC limelight

  
  City Pages - The Blotter — Authority: 646
  The District 6 congresswoman is crazy like a fox, but maybe a little too in love with Fox.
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• PolitiFact cant handle the truth

  
  Sublime Bloviations — Authority: 126
  Editor Bill Adair wrote a year-end summary about PolitiFacts fact checking efforts for 2008 . The piece deserves its own fact check. The Truth-O-Meter went red in 2009. We mention red because that’s the meter’s color for our lowest ratings, False and Pants on Fire. Of the 432 fact-checking items we published ...
  4 days ago

• The Lie that Out-Lied All the Other Lies in 2009

  
  Indecision Forever — Authority: 537
  Rejoice, boys and girls! The helpful elves at PolitiFact have been busy in their truth factory, reviewing thousands of lies, near-lies, half-truths and "You lie"s that politicians spewed in the past 11.75 months. And the most un-true untruth of of all ? " Death panels. " The claim set political debate afire ...
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• Sarah Palin - Liar Of The Year

  
  Joe. My. God. — Authority: 708
  Fact-checking political site PolitiFact has chosen Sarah Palins "death panels" claim as its "Lie Of The Year." Of all the falsehoods and distortions in the political discourse this year, one stood out from the rest. "Death panels." The claim set political debate afire when it was made in August, raising issues ...
  5 days ago

• PolitiFact designates a "Lie of the Year"

  
  Sublime Bloviations — Authority: 126
  Of all the falsehoods and distortions in the political discourse this year, one stood out from the rest. "Death panels." (...) The editors of PolitiFact.com, the fact-checking Web site of the St. Petersburg Times , have chosen it as our inaugural "Lie of the Year." Unfortunately, the PolitiFact editors persist in ...
  1 week ago

• Grading PolitiFact:: Karl Rove and President Obamas approval rating

  
  Sublime Bloviations — Authority: 126
  The issue: Take careful note of the way PolitiFact potrays Karl Roves statement: The fact checkers: Louis Jacobson:  writer, researcher Greg Joyce:  editor Analysis: Regular readers know by now that establishing the context of the claim in question stands as a chief priority: Barack ...
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• Hoystory skewers absurd PolitiFact rating

  
  Sublime Bloviations — Authority: 126
  I dont have time to evaluate every PolitiFact entry. There just isnt enough time in the week. I took some time to look over blog commentary about PolitiFact. As expected, most of the comments simply report a rating of interest to the blogger. However, a few more bloggers than I expected have started writing ...
  2 weeks ago

• Inevitable: PolitiFact stats "prove" that Republicans lie more than Democrats

  
  Sublime Bloviations — Authority: 126
  Ive predicted that PolitiFacts presentation would result in some logic-challenged folks drawing ridiculous conclusions.  Now, "wizkid12" at the Daily Kos makes that expectation a reality: clipped from www.dailykos.com "wizkid12" did include an important caveat, though he was ...
  2 weeks ago

• Grading PolitiFact: James Inhofe and the science of climate change

  
  Sublime Bloviations — Authority: 126
  The issue: The fact checkers: Catharine Richert:  writer, researcher Greg Joyce:  editor Analysis: I admit it.  I do not trust the newspapers.  And that distrust spills over to fact check operations run by newspapers.  And when I see a key citation missing from a citation list, it ...
  2 weeks ago

• Bachmann on PolitiFacts Lie of the year list for Hannity quote

  
  City Pages - The Blotter — Authority: 646
  The GOP congresswoman is a nominee for a reality-challenged rant on Sean Hannitys Fox News show.
  2 weeks ago

• Grading PolitiFact: Bobby Jindal and a national record for the New Orleans Saints

  
  Sublime Bloviations — Authority: 126
  Do we really need to check politicians conversational statements about football? The issue: "Im predicting (the Saints) will go not only undefeated, but all the way through the Super Bowl -- something thats never been done before." Bobby Jindal on Monday, December 7th, 2009 in a radio interview Gov. ...
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• Grading PolitiFact: Glenn Beck and the White House visits

  
  Sublime Bloviations — Authority: 126
  Sometimes PolitiFact concerns itself with the literal truth of a statement.  Sometimes the focus falls on the underlying argument.  Sometimes both receive attention.  Perhaps a throw of the dice determines which happens.  Maybe it depends on whether the PolitiFact staffers like the person involved. The issue: ...
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• Was the PolitiFact Pulitzer deserved? Pt. 2

  
  Sublime Bloviations — Authority: 126
  PolitiFact was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for its election coverage in 2008, based on 13 submissions evaluated by a Pulitzer Prize jury .  With pt. 2 in this series I evaluate the second listed submission from PolitiFact. The second PolitiFact story on the Pulitzer list was Robert Farleys "E-mail on Clinton ...
  3 weeks ago

• Was the PolitiFact Pulitzer deserved? Pt. 1

  
  Sublime Bloviations — Authority: 126
  As a long time critic of the PolitiFact fact checking operation, I was annoyed that PolitiFact was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for its 2008 reporting leading up to the election. The Pulitzer committee supposedly awards prizes to examples of journalism reflecting the highest standards of journalism.  An inquiry ...
  3 weeks ago

• Grading PolitiFact: Rep. Miller versus Recovery.com

  
  Sublime Bloviations — Authority: 126
  I heard a tale on the radio a few weeks ago about a competitive archer who thought he had won his event on his final shot only to find that his arrow struck the bulls eye of the target used by an adjacent competitor.  He did not win the competition. This PolitiFact entry on Rep. Jeff Miller (R., Fla.) reminds me a ...
  3 weeks ago

• Grading PolitiFact: Ed Schultz and heathcare reform taxes

  
  Sublime Bloviations — Authority: 126
  I wonder when PolitiFact will get serious about checking facts? The issue: "Ninety-eight percent of the American people will not see their taxes go up" due to the House health care bill. Ed Schultz on Friday, November 20th, 2009 in MSNBCs the Ed Show Schultz says health care bill will only tax top 2 ...
  4 weeks ago

• Piquing PolitiFact: Corrections and $timulu$

  
  Sublime Bloviations — Authority: 126
  I pointed out some time ago that PolitiFact had reported a figure for Obama stimulus package that was off by a factor of a billion. I subsequently pointed out the error at PolitiFacts FaceBook page . clipped from www.facebook.com Bryan White Rep. Young offered a fair paraphrase of Obama. The ...
  4 weeks ago

• Grading PolitiFact: Orrin Hatch: Tolstoy v. health care bill

  
  Sublime Bloviations — Authority: 126
  "There you go again." --Ronald Reagan The issue: The fact checkers: Louis Jacobsen: writer, researcher Bill Adair: editor Analysis: PolitiFact has developed a chronic problem with literary interpretation. Orrin Hatch is merely the latest to receive bludgeoning via the tin ear. We note the ...
  5 weeks ago

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