Written by Tim Graham
Don’t call PolitiFact an “independent fact-checker.” When they assemble to select their “Lie of the Year,” they have singled out Donald Trump in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020 and 2021. No Democrat has been tagged with this dishonor since Trump arrived on the scene.
It was Trump again this year, as PolitiFact tweeted: “A lie marked a town and its residents in the name of campaign rage. It was absurd. It was consequential.… Continue Reading
Tags: Amy Sherman, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Haitian immigrants, Hunter Biden, JD Vance, Joe Biden, Joe Scarborough, Kamala Harris, Lie of the Year, Maria Ramirez Uribe, Marjorie Taylor Greene, PolitiFact, Vilbrun Dorsainvil
Media Watch | David E. Smith | December 20, 2024 6:00 AM | Comments Off on Shocker! PolitiFact Tags Trump For ‘Lie of the Year’ For the 7th Time
Written by Tim Graham
Republicans and many independents do not believe in the term “independent fact-checkers” when it comes to federal elections. Fact-checkers predictably defend Democrats from GOP “misinformation” in election season. Democrat extremism on abortion is one topic where the fact-“checkers” are the fact-manglers.
Take Republican U.S. Senate candidate Tim Sheehy in Montana. On July 10, PolitiFact broke out the “False” flag for something Sheehy said in a June 8 debate:
“Elective abortions up to and including the moment of birth.
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Tags: Dana Bash, Democratic Party Platform, Democrats, Donald Trump, fact-checkers, Joe Biden, Jon Tester, PolitiFact, Roe v. Wade, Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, Tim Sheehy, Women's Health Protection Act
Sanctity of Life | David E. Smith | July 13, 2024 5:00 AM | Comments Off on Extremist Democrats Count on ‘Fact-Checkers’ on Abortion
Written by Robert Knight
Recent events give new meaning to the term “trumped-up charges.”
A Democratic New York State Supreme Court justice, in cahoots with a Democratic state attorney general, has written a new chapter in the book of political lawfare.
With no victims, no client complaints and no evidence of fraud, Judge Arthur Engoron nonetheless levied a $354 million fine against former President Donald Trump for the crime of doing business in the Democratic jurisdiction of New York.… Continue Reading
Tags: abortion, Alfred S. Irving, American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers, Andrew Napolitano, Arthur Engoron, Climate Change, Climate Power, Competitive Enterprise Institute, COVID, Donald Trump, Election integrity, Environmental Protection Agency, Fani Willis, Jill Shesol, Kara Swisher, lawfare, Letitia James, Mark Steyn, PolitiFact, Rand Simberg, Sexuality, the border, The Washington Post, The Washington Times
Federal Issues, Judicial Branch | David E. Smith | February 26, 2024 7:00 AM | Comments Off on Conservatives Hit With Massive Legal Judgments for Exercising Free Speech
Written by Tim Graham
On Nov. 7, the U.S. House of Representatives (212 Republicans and 22 Democrats) voted to censure radical U.S. Representative Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) because she has “levied unbelievable falsehoods about our greatest ally, Israel, and the attack on October 7.”
One of those outrageous falsehoods was clinging to the false claim that Israel bombed the al-Ahli hospital in Gaza. But guess what? Our professional “fact-checkers” haven’t located that lie … or any other nutty utterance, like her laughable claim that “from the river to the sea” isn’t a Hamas slogan about the eradication of Israel, it’s an “aspirational call for freedom” and “peaceful coexistence.”… Continue Reading
Tags: al-Ahli hospital, Biden Administration, Cori Bush, Democrats, Donald Trump, FactCheck.org, Gaza, Glenn Kessler, Hamas, Islamic Nazis, Islamic Terror, Israel, Joe Biden, Marsha Blackburn, Palestine, PolitiFact, Rashida Tlaib, Reuters, USA Today, Washington Post, Zachary Faria
Media Watch | David E. Smith | November 18, 2023 4:00 AM | Comments Off on Rashida Tlaib’s Lies Skipped By ‘Fact-Checkers’
Written by Tim Graham
As CNN looks for a new leader, former CNN host Brian Stelter proposed this as the most important question: “What should an anchor do when a guest says something untrue?”
The public could turn this question around: “What should a politician do when a CNN host says something untrue?” The Stelters of this world cannot imagine anyone at CNN would ever say anything false. They arrogantly presume they always defend the “truth.”… Continue Reading
Tags: abortion, Biden-Harris Campaign, Brian Stelter, CNN, Dana Bash, EWTN, H.R. 8296, Jake Tapper, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Mike Pence, Nikki Haley, Owen Jensen, Planned Parenthood, PolitiFact, Roe v. Wade, Women's Health Protection Act
Media Watch | David E. Smith | June 9, 2023 6:00 AM | Comments Off on CNN’s Mostly False Take on Biden’s Stance on Abortion
Written by Tim Graham
The so-called fact-checkers are energetic defenders of President Joe Biden — almost like they’re his siblings or his nephews. No cockeyed critique of Biden is silly enough for them to forgo the urgent need to “check.” They’re perpetually poised to pounce!
PolitiFact gave us two examples on Feb. 10. Both were “Pants On Fire” warnings, but only one was about pants. The headline was “Joe Biden put his pants on backwards,” and their headline continued: “We know all about pants.… Continue Reading
Tags: Chuck Schumer, Ciara O'Rourke, Donald Trump, Facebook, Instagram, Jeff Cercone, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Mindy Robinson, PolitiFact, QAnon, Snopes
Media Watch | David E. Smith | February 18, 2023 5:00 AM | Comments Off on When ‘Pants on Fire’ Fact Checks Are About Biden’s Pants
Written by Brent Bozell III
Our media elites arrogantly lecture about our democracy being undermined by robotic propaganda, but do they ever listen to themselves talk about the Democrats? Somehow, they think their robotic propaganda is just the “truth.” The press came to witness the Senate impeachment trial, and U.S. Representative Adam Schiff (D-CA) had them at hello.
No member of Congress has been more dramatically partisan in this war on the Trump presidency than Schiff. … Continue Reading
Tags: ABC News, Adam Schiff, CNN, Donald J. Trump, Fox News Channel, Greg Miller, impeachment, Jason Johnson, Jeffrey Toobin, Jennifer Rubin, Joe Scarborough, Jonathan Alter, Lev Parnas, Mika Brzezinski, MSNBC, PolitiFact, Rudy Giuliani, Ted Cruz, Terry Moran, Ukraine, Washington Post, Wolf Blitzer
Federal Issues, Impeachment | David E. Smith | January 24, 2020 6:39 AM | Comments Off on Adam Schiff’s Avalanche of Accolades
Written by L. Brent Bozell III
One reason many Americans don’t trust those “fact-checker” websites is because to know them is to see right through their incessantly liberal worldview. These impartial arbiters of truth routinely defend Democrats as being “Mostly True” on everything while savaging Republicans as just the opposite. It’s not just Donald Trump, mind you. It’s Ted Cruz. And Rick Santorum. And Newt Gingrich. And pretty much anyone who challenges liberal orthodoxy.… Continue Reading
Tags: 2020 Election, Beto O’Rourke, Cory Booker, Democratic Debate, Donald Trump, Eddie Glaude, Elizabeth Warren, Jane Timm, Joe Scarborough, Julian Castro, L. Brent Bozell III, Mika Brzezinski, MSNBC, NBC News, Newt Gingrich, OxyContin, PolitiFact, Purdue Pharma, Rick Santorum, Ted Cruz, The Washington Post, Tim Ryan
Federal Elections, Political | David E. Smith | July 1, 2019 6:00 AM | Comments Off on ‘Fact-Checkers’ Find Democrats Are Truth Tellers
Written by L. Brent Bozell III
President Trump has been in office for almost two years, which should mean that by now, all the crazy talk in the media about his impending dictatorship ought to be abandoned. Democracy is still vibrant, as we saw with record voter turnout in November. But the wild conspiracy theories about Trump never stop. Some of them qualify as the worst media quotes of the year.
Don’t go looking for “fact-checkers” to evaluate how much evidence the cable “news” folks have mustered.… Continue Reading
Tags: Adolph Hitler, Barron Trump, Joe Scarborough, Joy Behar, Joy Reid, Kim Jong-un, Mika Brzezinski, Mike Pence, Morning Joe, MSNBC, New York Times, Paul Krugman, Peter Fonda, PolitiFact, Steve Schmidt, The View, Twitter
Media Watch | David E. Smith | December 26, 2018 6:00 AM | Comments Off on The Media Was Still Unglued in 2018