Fact-checking fact-checkers

CNN chief fact-checker Daniel Dale is not pleased with Senator and National Republican Senatorial Committee chairman Tim Scott. On Wednesday, Dale penned an article attacking Scott for a “misleading” ad that “snipped key context” from a Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed speech, but Dale’s criticism seems to be that Republicans didn’t put an entire paragraph from that speech in their 30-second…

The “fact checkers” are marching in line with the elitist media in slamming Republican Mike Rogers for pointing out Abdul el-Sayed’s sketchy choice of allies like Hasan Piker.

Associated Press fact-checker Melissa Goldin came running to New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s defense on Tuesday after conservative media personalities and Republican politicians accused him of hypocrisy for requiring a “library-card-esque” ID to shop at his government-run grocery stores, but opposing it when it comes to voting. However, Goldin’s insistence that such claims are "…

PolitiFact threw the "False" flag at a minor GOP candidate for wrongly claiming the U.S. and Israeli militaries were merging. But they could have done the same for AOC, Ro Khanna, and Thomas Massie. Why single out the un-elected conspiracy theorist? 

PolitiFact did something truly shocking on July 2. They tagged a Democrat with their harshest judgment, “Pants On Fire.” It’s been almost two years since the last time. On July 31, 2024, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker was flagged for suggesting J.D. Vance had sex with a couch. In between those, I counted 32 "Pants On Fire" tags for Donald Trump.

President Trump has reacted to the rise of the Democratic Socialists of America by sounding the alarm about communism, which greatly upset Associated Press fact-checker Melissa Goldin on Thursday because, according to her, only card-carrying members of the Communist Party USA can be called communists.

Sen. Jon Ossoff is an easy Exhibit A in the “fact checking” tilt at PolitiFact. In his first Senate run in 2020, PolitiFact’s Tom Kertscher threw a “Pants On Fire” attack at his opponent Sen. David Perdue for rudely labeling Ossoff a “socialist.” Now his GOP opponent is "False" for saying he cast the "deciding vote" on the Inflation Reduction Act. (He did.) 

The "fact checkers" looked ridiculous abroad! The former editor of PolitiFact claimed "we've been accused of bias even when we've made every effort to be fair and nonpartisan." Our studies at NewsBusters have shown repeatedly that PolitiFact has a dramatic bias in favor of the Democrats. 

The sheer spectacle of so-called fact-checkers bending over backwards to rationalize the nutty temper tantrums of the globe’s most infamous eco-possessed spoiled brat Greta Thunberg is a permanent case study in how the media’s self-appointed truth gatekeepers are nothing but sniveling propaganda whores laundering the deranged shrieks of a leftist cult.

Ahead of America 250, PolitiFact’s Louis Jacobson penned an article on Monday chronicling what he considered to be eleven instances where presidents “shaded reality as they shaped US history.” Unfortunately for Jacobson, in some instances it was he who did the shading, especially when he considered some of the nation’s most defining foreign policy moments.

PolitiFact’s Caleb McCullough was at it again with more Senate campaign cherry-picking shenanigans on Friday. This time McCullough focused on Iowa Republican Ashley Hinson’s recent ad that accused Democrat Josh Turek of supporting sex changes for minors. McCullough called it “false,” but his actual article suggested it was not quite that simple.

The self-styled fact-checkers at Snopes had an interesting Friday. On one hand, Rae Deng claimed there is insufficient evidence to label a left-wing conspiracy theory about a proposed bill in North Carolina making murdering women legal if they seek an abortion false. On the other hand, Jack Izzo was adamant that Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico is the victim of a “chronically…

PolitiFact’s Caleb McCullough has his priorities out of order. On Wednesday, he penned an article declaring GOP Texas Senate candidate Ken Paxton “false” for calling his Democratic opponent, James Talarico, a vegan. However, he could have rated Paxton “half-true” or written another article labeling Talarico “false” because Paxton also cited Talarico’s previous comments about there being six…

On Friday, PolitiFact writers Samantha Putterman and Maria Briceno gave Secretary of State Marco Rubio a “half true” rating for his claim that the United States is not the reason that Cuba is experiencing 22-hour blackouts.