Fact Checking the Fact Checkers
More and more, major news outlets are relying on “fact checkers” to, allegedly, ensure that the news is factual, sources are reliable, and statements are accurate.
In theory, this is admirable. In practice, it has proven to be simply another opportunity for the media to push their leftist agenda.
Fact checking groups — such as PolitiFact — routinely cast judgments while failing to disclose their own left-wing bias. Their allies in the media try to cast these groups as neutral third parties when, in fact, they are card-carrying members of the liberal echo chamber.
It’s no wonder that the public has so little faith in the fact-checkers. A 2016 Rasmussen poll found that an astonishing 62% of American voters think the fact-check-ers are biased.
The Media Research Center is flipping the script on these faux-fact-checkers. It’s time to turn the tables and give the public the real facts.
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WashPost Fact Checkers Pick Entirely on GOP in Mueller-Hearing Check
The Washington Post Fact Checker team promises "We will strive to be dispassionate and non-partisan, drawing attention to inaccurate statements on both left and right. But we also fact check what matters -- and what matters are people in power." Eyeroll, please! On Thursday, Glenn Kessler and Salvador Rizzo posted an article titled "Fact-checking lawmakers’ claims during the Mueller hearings…
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PolitiFact: AOC Wasn't 'Crying Over a Parking Lot,' It Was a Road!
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Snopes Attacks Conservative Sites on Frederica Wilson's Censor Bender
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WashPost Tags Delaney as 'Four Pinocchios' Liar, Bernie Sanders Spared
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'Mostly False'? PolitiFact Goes Soft on Obama's Pants-on-Fire Gun Rant
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PolitiFact: Trump 'Mostly False' Saying Biden 'Deserted' Pennsylvania
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'Fact Checkers' Skip Rashida Tlaib's Fact-Mangling of Israel History
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AP 'Fact Check': Trump 'Maliciously False' on After-Birth Abortions
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Snopes.com Rushes to Defend Ilhan Omar AND Whack Babylon Bee Again
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Snopes Check on Biden Skips Over His Mangling of Kent State Body Count
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Selective! PolitiFact Rules Trump's 'Pants on Fire' for Saying 'Coup'
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'Fact Checkers' Ignore Stacey Abrams Proclaiming 'I Won' When She Lost
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WashPost Hides the 'Pinocchios' Again -- for Buttigieg Taking On Pence
The Washington Post "Fact Checker" squad has one article featured every Sunday in the A-section. On Easter Sunday, Glenn Kessler established that Democrat presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg should not claim Vice President Mike Pence spoke in favor of "conversion therapy" to press homosexuals to drop their same-sex attraction. "We can find no evidence that Pence ever expressed support for…
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