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…founded ISIS” pic.twitter.com/Df7NZMxPge Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) August 11, 2016 Politifact gave the claim one of their vaunted “pants on fire” rulings: The “fact” “check” admits that both President Barack Obama’s…

…When actor James Woods pointed out on Twitter that the NFL allowed Kaepernick’s protest but did not allow the Cowboys to honor police, Politifact found his claim “true.” They pointed…

…as opposed to its larger, corporatized producers. As PolitiFact noted in a piece on Trump’s statements: The Trump campaign is talking about Clinton’s proposal to raise the tax rate for…

…a near-constant state of meltdown. Amid the controversy, President Obama had to apologize publicly for misleading the American people with his “like your plan” pledge—which Politifact later dubbed the “Lie…

…can also check out the John Podesta email leak, if you like, to see how Democrats work with reporters. You can read the Pulitzer Prize-winning “factcheckers” at PolitiFact to know…

…Politifact’s “Lie of the Year” in 2013. Ham’s experience is echoed by many Americans, who have consistently said in polling since 2009 that Obamacare has hurt more people than it’s…

…counted as pre-existing conditions. But so would any number of other conditions resulting from other tragic and unfortunate events. In other words, this headline is so misleading that even PolitiFact…

…is passed (PolitiFact rated this as “mostly true”). The Center for American Progress did some back-of-the-envelope calculations showing that Senate Republicans’ health-care bill will lead to 217,000 more deaths over…

…you like your plan, you can keep it” broken promise, which became PolitiFact’s Lie of the Year. To stanch his political bleeding and solve the problem of millions of cancellation…

…effective January 1, 2014. The notices demonstrated the emptiness of Obama’s repeated promises that individuals who liked their plans could keep them—PolitiFact’s “Lie of the Year.” Moreover, the malfunctioning website…

…individual market coverage would end on January 1, 2014, for not complying with Obamacare’s regulatory regime. Faced with a political uproar over what PolitiFact later dubbed the “Lie of the…

…easily” unwind Dodd-Frank. That statement was awarded an overly-generous “half-true” (a.k.a., half totally made up and bonkers) rating by Politifact. Ultimately, few conservatives are going to complain if Warren is…

…to the sugar lobby, a powerful special interest group in Florida. Thankfully, this laughable accusation was set straight by PolitiFact, which rated the claim “Pants on Fire!” and noted “the…

…happened to me this week. It was brought to my attention a few days ago by another fact checker, from PolitiFact, who wanted to take his own gander at the…

…used to punish Facebook for Clinton’s loss. PolitiFact named “Fake news” the lie of the year. All the anti-Trump outlets got a piece of the narrative. Pope Francis and former…

…got some land I want to sell you. In fall 2013, Barack Obama’s “If you like your plan, you can keep it” promise turned into a firestorm, and PolitiFact’s “Lie…

…while breaking Senate rules, and Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) pushed a false narrative that was debunked by The Washington Post and PolitiFact about Kavanaugh’s views of birth control. But it…

…“the late Robert B. Wallace, was co-chairman of Population Action International, which advocates for increased access to birth control and other family planning methods,” says PolitiFact. His mother was also…

…Since 2013, the cost of California firefighting has more than tripled (an increase of $531 million), according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection and PolitiFact. Two things…

…could be funded by curbing fraud at the Pentagon. Not even PolitiFact could make that math work, given that our nation has not spent $32 trillion on defense since its…

…The same problem exists within so-called fact-checking, where the organizations the media and public rely on to call balls and strikes, like Snopes, PolitiFact and the Southern Poverty Law Center…

…promise turned out not to be true—millions of Americans received cancellation notices as Obamacare took effect, and PolitiFact named Obama’s campaign pledge its “Lie of the Year.” Given that tortured…

…“fact-checkers” at PolitiFact, FactCheck.org, and the Washington Post have been unable to avoid this entirely (even if they give her too much slack). She may be acting out of confirmation…

…mentioned that even liberal factchecking outfit PolitiFact once awarded Barack Obama the “Lie of Year” for misleading the American people about his technocratic health-care plan. Our former vice president, no…

…PolitiFact. As with Obamacare, Biden’s promise will echo hollow. By creating a government-run “public option” like Sanders’, the Biden plan would also take away health coverage for millions of Americans….

…decline dramatically. Like Obama’s “like your plan” pledge, which PolitiFact dubbed the “Lie of the Year” for 2013, Harris’ plan rests on optimistic scenarios that have little possibility of coming…

…pushing the Affordable Care Act on the 2008 campaign trail, telling voters that if they liked their plan they could keep their plan. That line was listed as PolitiFact’s Lie…

…has heaped scorn on reporters from CNN, and the fact-checkers at the Washington Post and PolitiFact. She has criticized CBS News for a lack of nonwhite females among its 2020…

…health care plan, you’ll be able to keep your health care plan.” As we now know, this was false. Indeed, PolitiFact named it the Lie of the Year for 2013….

…that infamous broken promise by Barack Obama—PolitiFact’s “Lie of the Year” for 2013—didn’t provide enough illustration, there are also his promises that Obamacare would 1) allow people to keep their…

…read in a long time.” PolitiFact even rated a claim by Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) that cited this data “half-true,” but only because she mixed up the top 1 percent…

…coverage when the law’s major provisions took effect in 2014, and the “replacement” plans proved far more expensive. Asked to apologize for what PolitiFact dubbed its “Lie of the Year”…

…“If you like your health care plan, you can keep it” under his sweeping health care law. PolitiFact rated the claim “true” six different times before they reversed themselves and…

…Politifact, a quasi-journalistic operation usually more than willing to carry water for Democrats, called Biden out Tuesday for falsely claiming the Trump administration rejected coronavirus test kits from the World…

…United States had done more tests in eight days than South Korea had done in eight weeks. PolitiFact calculated the United States had done 17,582 fewer tests than South Korea…

…“hoax” as false, including PolitiFact, Snopes, FactCheck.org, Check Your Fact, and even the Washington Post, which gave the claim its highest single false rating awarded by the paper of four…