WaPo Gives Obama 'Three Pinocchios' for Uncle Liberated Auschwitz Gaff

May 27th, 2008 8:20 PM
The Washington Post's "Fact Checker" blog has given Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama three Pinocchios (significant factual error and/or obvious contradiction) for his bogus claim that one of his uncles helped liberate the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz. This is down from the four Pinocchios (whopper!) fact checker Michael Dobbs originally gave the junior senator from Illinois for…

WaPo Dusts Off McCain Citizenship Non-story

May 2nd, 2008 4:35 PM
Stop me if you've heard this before: McCain, theoretically, might be ineligible for the presidency due to his being born on a naval installation in what was then the Panama Canal Zone. Oh, that's right, we have heard this. Back in February, as a matter of fact.No matter to the Washington Post's Michael Dobbs, who recycled the story a full 64 days later in the May 2 paper.Dobbs breathed new life…

WaPo Awards 'Four Pinocchios' to Hillary on Sniper-Fire Fable

March 22nd, 2008 3:34 PM