PolitiFact Defends Harris On Florida's 'Offensive' History Standards

July 25th, 2023 12:00 PM

PolitiFact waded into the controversy surrounding Florida’s new history standards by rating Vice President Kamala Harris “mostly true” for her statement that the state is teaching “enslaved people benefited from slavery.” To reach such a conclusion the trio of Sofia Bliss-Carrascosa, Louis Jacobson, and Amy Sherman had to tie themselves into a giant pretzel by simply downplaying evidence…

PolitiFact Flags Fox on NEA Recommending 'Gender Queer' for Summer

July 15th, 2023 10:05 PM

The liberals at PolitiFact flagged Fox News as "False" on July 11 as it sought to defend the "banned" book Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe. Fox made an error, reporting the National Education Association promoted the graphically sexual book to kids, when they were promoting it as summer reading for teachers.

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Camerota Fails At Fact-Checking Casey DeSantis On Child Mutilation

July 7th, 2023 10:15 AM

CNN Tonight host Alisyn Camerota tried and failed to fact-check an ad featuring Casey DeSantis where she touted her husband Ron’s record of banning “child mutilation.” As Camerota tells it, DeSantis’s team admits they have no proof of such events ever happening, but that is not true.

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PolitiFact Skips 'Truth-o-Meter' When Conservatives Are...On Target

June 8th, 2023 11:33 AM

PolitiFact has shown no hesitation when it comes to rating conservative claims about Target false, but when it came to a recent true claim from The Daily Wire and Fox News, about Target funding GLSEN, an activist group that favors concealing child transitions from parents, author Madison Czopek declined to give them a true rating on Wednesday, likely because PolitiFact believes such…

PolitiFact Torches Straw Man To Rate DeSantis 'False' On Book Banning

June 1st, 2023 12:00 PM

After launching his presidential campaign on Twitter Spaces, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was condemned by PolitiFact for his assertion that Florida has not banned any books. That summary did not give DeSantis a rating for his claims, but on Wednesday PolitiFact returned to the claim and rated it “false.” Yet, the article itself suggests that a “false” rating is overzealous and is ultimately…

PolitiFact Attacks DeSantis's Twitter Campaign Forum

May 25th, 2023 11:46 AM

How many PolitiFact fact-checkers does it take to fact-check a presidential announcement? Apparently four, as that is how many reporters it took to assess seven statements from Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s Wednesday campaign launch on Twitter Spaces.

PolitiFact Goes To Bat For Gender Ideology: 'Gender Is Different'

May 24th, 2023 9:47 AM

PolitiFact’s Grace Abels asked on Monday if gender dysphoria is a mental disorder and while she never actually answered the question, Abels was sure of one thing: conservatives are wrong.

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How Much Does PolitiFact Favor Kamala Harris Over Mike Pence? Bigly

May 22nd, 2023 6:43 AM

PolitiFact has a bad left-wing tilt. Since becoming vice president, Kamala Harris has only six "fact checks," and four of them were rated "Mostly True." In that time frame, former Vice President Mike Pence also has six checks, and none of them were "True" or "Mostly True." It only gets worse the more you look into it.

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Bongino Excoriates Fact-Checkers for Ties to Leftist George Soros

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April 21st, 2023 9:26 AM

Conservative radio host Dan Bongino tore into a number of leftist so-called fact-checkers for their connection to activist, leftist billionaire George Soros.

Editor’s Pick: Bongino Report’s Palumbo SLAMS Lefties Defending Bragg

April 18th, 2023 10:59 AM

Writing in Tuesday’s print edition of the New York Post, our friend Matt Palumbo of the Bongino Report took a blowtorch to the liberal media-selected, so-called fact-checkers for their latest antics and lies in order to defend far-left Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg in his efforts to prosecute former President Trump.

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PolitiFact Cries 'FALSE' at Laura Ingraham on Tennessee Capitol Fracas

April 6th, 2023 2:40 PM

The "independent fact-checkers" have this relentless tendency to line up with the Left, especially when they want to defend their January 6 narrative. Occuping state capitols is a favorite tactic, so they don't want "insurrection" painted on it. 

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60 Minutes Segment On Declining Navy Sinks A Decade Of Fact-Checks

March 21st, 2023 12:15 PM

Sunday’s edition of CBS’s 60 Minutes sounded the alarm on China’s rapid naval expansion and included premier PLAN expert Toshi Yoshihara warning that China is outbuilding several Western nations combined and Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Mike Gilday declaring his top priority is cutting down the Navy’s excessive maintenance delays that limit the Navy’s ability to keep up. The…

The Federalist Whacks PolitiFact on Funding Blue-County Voting Boards

March 17th, 2023 4:39 PM

n its latest bid to run interference for the Democrat Party, the historically dishonest, left-wing PolitiFact published a “fact-check” of a Federalist article that explores leftist nonprofits’ ploy to use private money as a means of changing local…

PolitiFact Slams Matt Walsh: 'Mostly False' on 'Gender-Affirming Care'

March 13th, 2023 8:30 AM

PolitiFact took a month to get around to attacking conservative pundit Matt Walsh as "Mostly False" on associating rising youth suicide on what they call "gender-affirming care." Their "fact check" article used "gender-affirming" words to describe gender denial 28 times.