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PolitiFact's Convention False Percentages: 89 For Trump, 33 For Harris
With both party conventions now in the books, so too are PolitiFact’s nightly recaps. After four days of the RNC and the DNC, PBS’s new fact-checking partner, gave Republicans three times as many false ratings while giving Democrats three times as many true ratings.
NewsBusters Podcast: Maddow, Tapper, & Colbert Reach Convention Climax
The end of a Democrat convention really draws out proclamations of Historic Possibilities, and Rachel Maddow, Jake Tapper, and Stephen Colbert stood out in the gushfest. It's quite a contrast with how all the anchors summarized Donald Trump's acceptance speech.
The Washington Post Ads on Twitter Promote Kamala, Attack Trump-Vance
The Washington Post seems to be conducting a Democrat-boosting ad campaign on Twitter. The latest one was boosting their "Fact Checker" Glenn Kessler attacking "a trio of silly, false claims" by J.D. Vance against Kamala Harris for being a leftist radical. But they've also promoted pro-Harris gush stories in Twitter ads.
PolitiFact Rates Vance 'Mostly False' For Claim Walz Abandoned Unit
Following days of controversy, PolitiFact officially gave GOP vice presidential nominee JD Vance a “mostly false” rating on Friday for claiming his Democratic counterpart, Tim Walz, abandoned his National Guard unit prior to its deployment to Iraq. However, PolitiFact omitted some key details from those who served with Walz that could’ve changed the truth-o-meter.
MSNBC Selectively Edits Vance To Label Him 'Entirely False' On Walz
The first rule of fact-checking is to examine what the person you are fact-checking actually said, but MSNBC’s Ali Velshi broke this simple rule on Wednesday as he guest-hosted Alex Wagner Tonight and took GOP vice presidential nominee JD Vance out of context in order to rule him “entirely false” for condemning his Democratic counterpart, Tim Walz, for misrepresenting his military…
NY Times Shouts 'Disinformation' Over GOP's Accurate Kamala Claims
Tiffany Hsu, who covers “misinformation and disinformation” for the New York Times, took the reins of the paper’s “On Politics” newsletter Wednesday under the headline and issued the latest hypersensitive mainstream media defense of the newly minted Democratic nominee under the inflated headline, “Tackling the falsehoods about Kamala Harris.” Yet much of what the paper condemned as “…
After Shaming GOP on 'Border Czar,' PolitiFact Fails To Define 'Woman'
On Wednesday, PolitiFact beclowned itself as it claimed it is “mostly-false” for Republicans to say Vice President Kamala Harris was appointed “border czar.” However, that was not all. Also on Wednesday, PolitiFact tried to attack the party for…
Fact-Checkers Slap 'False' Labels On Claims Harris Was 'Border Czar'
The nitpickers, who style themselves as fact-checkers at PolitiFact and USA Today, have rushed to Vice President Kamala Harris’s defense by slapping “false” labels on those who seek to label her as the Biden Administration’s “border czar” in order to claim that her failure to stem illegal immigration proves she is unqualified to be president.
'Just Google It': Rep. Waltz Shreds CNN's Fact-Check Of His RNC Speech
Florida Rep. Mike Waltz joined CNN News Central host Boris Sanchez on Thursday to recap his speech to the Republican National Convention and gave Sanchez more than he bargained for as he ripped apart Sanchez's fact-checking colleague Daniel Dale’s from the previous night.
NPR Bashes RNC: 'Violent Rhetoric, Attacks on Undocumented Immigrants'
National Public Radio’s Up First newsletter highlights top stories from the taxpayer-supported radio network. Wednesday’s newsletter, centered around Night Two of the Republican National Convention and its themes of crime and illegal immigration, smeared and fact-checked Tuesday night’s speakers, while using the soft, politically pleasing phrase “undocumented immigrants” to describe…
PBS Hurls Bad Fact Checks; Vote Concerns May Stir ‘Political Violence'
PBS’s biased coverage of Night Three of the Republican National Convention began even before the main event, on Wednesday evening’s PBS News Hour, aiming not only to fact-check the Republicans but even to suggest some Republican voting “misinformation” was dangerous. The tax-funded network’s first fact-check target was…reality TV star, Savannah Chrisley, who discussed her family’s…
Worried For Democracy, PBS And PolitiFact Unveil Election Partnership
PolitiFact, one of the fact-checking outlets with the ability to censor your Facebook posts, and PBS, the news channel subsidized by your tax dollars, announced in a joint statement on Friday on their respective websites that they are teaming up for the remainder of the 2024 election cycle, formalizing their June 27 Debate segment.
Amanpour Plays 'SEAL Team 6' Card on SCOTUS Ruling With Obama Lawyer
On Monday’s edition of the CNN International political interview program Amanpour, liberal host Christiane Amanpour treated new, significant Supreme Court decisions with fear and contempt, using the liberal media’s trick of emphasizing the liberal dissents from the bench, not the binding rulings from the conservative majority. Host Christiane Amanpour opened the program with "Donald…
PolitiFact's 100 Percent Anti-Trump Post-Debate TILT Underlined by PBS
As we noted PBS tried hardest to support the Biden spin after their disastrous debate, on Friday night, the PBS News Hour strongly stuck to the Biden narrative that Trump lost the debate by unleashing a flood of lies. PBS turned to the badly disguised Democrats at PolitiFact for analysis, whose post-debate analysis couldn't find anything Trump said was true. They loaded 16 claims that…
