More and more, major news outlets are relying on “fact checkers” to, allegedly, ensure that the news is factual, sources are reliable, and statements are accurate.

In theory, this is admirable. In practice, it has proven to be simply another opportunity for the media to push their leftist agenda.

Fact checking groups — such as PolitiFact — routinely cast judgments while failing to disclose their own left-wing bias. Their allies in the media try to cast these groups as neutral third parties when, in fact, they are card-carrying members of the liberal echo chamber.

It’s no wonder that the public has so little faith in the fact-checkers. A 2016 Rasmussen poll found that an astonishing 62% of American voters think the fact-check-ers are biased.

The Media Research Center is flipping the script on these faux-fact-checkers. It’s time to turn the tables and give the public the real facts.

 

Mostly True? PolitiFact Taffy-Pulls the Rental Facts for Kamala Harris

Deeply Distorted Deeply Distorted
PolitiFact's kid-gloves treatment of prominent Democrats is on display again. Twitchy noted ultraliberal Sen. Kamala Harris drew a rare evaluation, but of course, the ruling was "Mostly True." PolitiFact has only evaluated Harris nine times -- five Mostly True, two True, and two Half True (and one of those was Democrat-on-Democrat warfare).
Tim Graham
July 28th, 2018 9:12 AM
 

Huh? CBS/AP: Trump ‘Wrong’ to Call Dossier a Clinton Campaign Doc

Fully Fake Fully Fake
Flying in the face of reality, CBS News and the Associated Press issued a joint “fact-check” of the President this week, claiming that he was wrong to call the infamous DNC-funded Steele dossier a “Clinton campaign document.”
Kristine Marsh
July 25th, 2018 11:16 AM
 

Snopes Throws 'False' Flag at Daily Wire for True San Fran Vote Story

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Those "independent fact checkers" at Snopes threw a red flag at conservative websites like the Daily Wire for a "mixture" of truth and falsehood on the question "Is San Francisco Registering ‘Illegal Aliens’ to Vote?" You have to get a kick out of the objection to the I-word and the A-word. They prefer "non-citizens." We wouldn't call their site "non-partisan."  This is their breakdown, and as…
Tim Graham
July 20th, 2018 9:19 PM
 

Snopes Media Has 'Consistently Claimed' Child Was Never Separated

Fully Fake Fully Fake
Snopes.com has once again created fact-check fiction. On Friday, the site's Kim LaCapria contended that the press has "consistently reported" that the girl photographed by Getty Images' John Moore "was never separated from her mother," and that any claim to the contrary is "Mostly False." There is more evidence than one can even hope to chronicle that it is LaCapria's claim which is false.
Tom Blumer
June 27th, 2018 5:41 PM
 

PolitiFact Rules Ted Cruz Is 'Mostly False' and 'Technically Correct'

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The "independent fact checkers" have a funny way of finding "technically correct" claims by conservatives to be "Mostly False." W. Gardner Selby at PolitiFact hammered that rating on Sen. Ted Cruz as he consulted liberal lawyers to insist Cruz left an "inaccurate impression" separation was required, when Trump could have chosen to let every illegal-immigrant parent and child go free into America…
Tim Graham
June 26th, 2018 10:20 AM
 

PolitiFact Rules It's 'True' That Democrats Are Near a Historic Low

The Real Deal The Real Deal
It's not surprising that PolitiFact would rule that a CNN host was "True." But it was surprising that Fareed Zakaria's "True" statement was "Yes, the Democratic Party is at nearly its weakest point in a century." So why is that a surprise? Because our liberal media has this amazing tendency to spend all its political-pundit time discussing the terrible shape the Republican Party is in.
Tim Graham
June 18th, 2018 7:47 AM
 

PolitiFact Fails to Rule Hannity Sarcasm Was Mangled by MSNBC

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On June 6, Fox News host Sean Hannity sarcastically suggested that the Trump White House could try Hillary Clinton's tactics in the probe of her private email server. Liberals took this message and twisted it into "Hannity urges destruction of evidence." On June 12, PolitiFact took up this liberal distortion of Hannity's words....and then proclaimed it would not issue any "Truth-o-Meter" verdict…
Tim Graham
June 13th, 2018 9:46 PM
 

Fake News, Fake 'Fact-Check'; Vargas Spreads Staged Caged-Kid Photo

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On Monday evening Pacific Time, former Washington Post reporter Jose Antonio Vargas posted a photo on Twitter of children inside a cage. He assumed that the photo depicted unaccompanied illegal-immigrant children recently detained by ICE. He was wrong; but as of late Wednesday morning, he has from all appearances only indirectly admitted his error. An alleged "fact-check" at Snopes.com would not…
Tom Blumer
June 13th, 2018 1:27 PM
 

Snopes Hides Truth in 'Fact-Check' on California's Draconian Water Law

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Snopes.com's so-called "fact checks" are so often inane — NewsBusters has caught it "fact-checking" an obviously satirical post — that it's tempting to dismiss it as irrelevant. That would be a mistake. It's therefore important to call sites like Snopes out when they play their deceptive "fact check" games. That's what the site's Bethania Palma definitely did in discussing a claim about…
Tom Blumer
June 8th, 2018 3:48 PM
 

WashPost 'Fact Checker' Cites Clinton as 'Clearly Wrong' on Legal Debt

The Real Deal The Real Deal
Washington Post “Fact Checker” Glenn Kessler has concentrated most of his firepower on Donald Trump. A June 1 blog post touted “President Trump has made 3,251 false or misleading claims in 497 days." So Kessler offered a tiny nod toward balance on Monday by picking apart two claims Bill Clinton made when he had a "meltdown" with NBC’s Craig Melvin.
Tim Graham
June 5th, 2018 8:46 PM
 

NYT Fact Check: Trump 'False' on Democrats Defending MS-13 'Dignity'

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New York Times "fact checker" Linda Qiu is the latest example of knee-jerk defense of the Democrats masquerading as a truth-cop ticket on a Trump tweet. "Democrats have neither cheered on Mr. Trump's withdrawal from a summit with the North Korean leader...nor defended the violent gang MS-13."
Tim Graham
May 29th, 2018 8:21 AM
 

Beware the 'School Is More Dangerous Than the Military' Talking Points

The Real Deal The Real Deal
Snopes.com explored the popular liberal talking point that (to quote the front of the New York Daily News) “more students or teachers killed by guns in U.S. schools than active-duty military deaths in 2018.” That statistic is true if you only count deaths in combat, and false if you include accidental deaths. But there are more than 50 million students in public schools, and only 1.3 million…
Tim Graham
May 24th, 2018 7:17 AM
 

AP 'Fact Check' Mangles What Trump Tweeted on Tilted Mueller Probe

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The hypersensitivity of the "independent fact checkers" toward special counsel Robert Mueller was demonstrated again by a Hope Yen AP "Fact Check" on Sunday. She claimed it doesn't "hold up to reality" that Mueller's legal team is "hopelessly biased" and dominated by Democrats and over-claimed that Trump tweeted he was "cleared" of collusion. 
Tim Graham
May 21st, 2018 8:57 AM
 

Snopes.com Slams Babylon Bee Satirists as 'False' for Cosby Joke

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The completely humorless fact-checkers at Snopes.com are trashing the satire site Babylon Bee again as “False.” The target is a hilarious send-up of Planned Parenthood claiming that only three percent of their services are abortions (about a third of a million deaths a year). They imagined Cecile Richards defending Bill Cosby after his convicton for sexual assault by saying "You can’t paint him…
Tim Graham
May 5th, 2018 3:51 PM