Fact-checking fact-checkers

Those who work at the fact-checking websites like to portray themselves as the heroic defenders of civilization against the barbarians at the gate who come armed with misinformation and seek to destroy it. Therefore, it was rather interesting on Friday when Snopes’s Nuir Ibrahim sought to reassure all of the Israel haters on the internet that Dolly Parton did not, in fact, donate books to…

PolitiFact’s home page begs for donations with the sales pitch: “Stand up for the facts! Our only agenda is to publish the truth so you can be an informed participant in democracy.” But PolitiFact’s liberal agenda is easily identified by studying its partisan pattern of “fact checking.” Their disparity in "False" warnings between Republicans and Democrats is 63 to 14.

On Friday, PolitiFact posted a story headlined “Why Republicans are focusing on transgender issues in competitive 2026 campaigns.” The headline could have been “Republicans are using misleading anti-transgender rhetoric.” That was their argument.

Politifact (D-Florida) is already demonstrating the notion that "fact checking" is often Republican spin-spoiling. Democrats chose DSA member Angie Nixon to run for Senate, and PolitiFact asked: "How aligned is Angie Nixon with democratic socialists? Moody's Florida Senate race attack misleads." Wrong.

Florida Republican-turned MSNBC talking head-turned Democratic gubernatorial nominee David Jolly has portrayed himself as the kind of aspiring governor who would not insert himself into decisions about whether or not a minor should receive transgender “medical care.” This has led GOP nominee Byron Donalds and his PAC to say Jolly supports transgender surgeries for minors, but the damage…

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.