Fact-checking fact-checkers

COME ON! PolitiFact Claims Biden's Invisible Handshake Was 'Gesturing'
PolitiFact acts like its role is not to check facts, but to suppress embarrassing videos of Biden and Harris. Last month, they cried False about an embarrassing Harris performance at a press conference in Europe. Now, they've claimed that when Biden ended a speech and attempted to shake hands with a non-existent person, he was pointing! Doesn't everyone point with all five fingers?

Holy … ! Fact-Checker Censors MRCTV Over Biden Bird Poop Theory
The hypocrisy of Facebook’s fact-checking partners knows no bounds. In an act of discrimination against the Media Research Center, a Meta platform fact-checking partner threw a fit after MRC’s video division, MRCTV, dared to write about a video that showed President Joe Biden getting smacked with a white or yellow substance, depending on the photo or video.

Wimped Out! AP Concedes Biden ‘Overpromised’ on Green Energy Savings
The Associated Press couldn’t bring itself to outright admit that President Joe Biden falsely promised to Americans that they would save big on transitioning to green energy. Instead, AP just said he “misspoke” and “vastly overpromised.”

NewsBusters Podcast: LGBTQ Lobby Gets Conservative Day of Invisibility
The "Transgender Day of Visibility" became a day of completely one-sided promotional news coverage, complete with clips of President Biden's celebration speech. For conservative critics, it was a day of invisibility. The Left thinks identity trumps democracy and debate.

Fact-Checkers Fail to React to New Facts on Hunter Biden Emails
So-called fact-checkers should be eating crow following authentication of the emails from Hunter Biden’s notorious laptop by The New York Times. But a new analysis shows they’re being as brazen as ever by not updating old articles challenging the credibility of the story.

Hunter Biden News Prompts Piece on 'Invasion of the Fact-Checkers'
In the wake of the New York Times whispering in print on page A-20 that the Hunter Biden laptop emails were authentic, the "fact checking"/censorship complex is in need of scrutiny. Jacob Siegel of Tablet Magazine wrote up a tart piece titled "Invasion of the Fact-Checkers" that explored how private media power and the Democrats engage in shutting down narratives they don't like.

PolitiFact Double-Blasts Blackburn as 'False' in Defense of Ketanji
The Democrat-backing “fact checkers” of PolitiFact jumped to the defense of Ketanji Brown Jackson by slapping conservative Sen. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee with two negative verdicts on Tuesday. Four Democrats in the Senate haven't received a single PolitiFact "check."

Tech Reform Should Stop Censorship, Allow Trump Back, Group Head Says
Conservatives should pare down the several pending Big Tech reform bills into one or two pieces of legislation that can garner broad support if/when Republicans win control of Congress.

PolitiFact Tags Stephen Miller as 'FALSE' for Mocking Kamala Harris
The badly disguised Democrats at PolitiFact haven’t fact-checked Vice President Kamala Harris on anything in eight months, but they demonstrated their Princess-and-the-Pea level of sensitivity of defensiveness by throwing a “False” flag at former Trump adviser Stephen Miller on Monday for mocking Harris on Fox’s Sunday Morning Futures.
DENIED! MRC Question Refused as NewsGuard, AFT Heads Tout Credibility
American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten said she’s happy that NewsGuard highly rates some news outlets that have been critical of her. And her group’s new partner was right by her side.

CNN Fact Squad Tags GOP Rebuttal on DOJ Surveilling Angry Parents
The CNN "Facts First" fact-checkers evaluated 12 claims from President Biden's State of the Union address but only found one of those that they would describe outright as "false." It looked like an A for effort. They only looked at three claims from the Republican rebuttal from Iowa Gov. Kim Richards, and tagged one as false -- that "the Department of Justice treats parents like domestic…

PolitiFact or Politi-Faceplant? Maria Bartiromo Was True, Not False!
In the latest of their fatuous “fact checks” that rate something “Mostly False” as they acknowledge it’s actually true, PolitiFact took after Fox News host Maria Bartiromo for saying this to fellow Fox host Jesse Watters on his show on February 22: “We have doubled our (oil) imports from Russia in the last year.”

NewsGuard CEO: Fox News, OANN Would Have Called Moon Landing ‘Fraud’
NewsGuard CEO Steven Brill this week painted his company as a white knight that can save impressionable dupes from repeating another Jan. 6 “insurrection,” and said Fox News and OANN traffic in conspiracy theories.

WashPost 'Fact Checker' Joins Assault on Free Beacon Crack-Pipe Story
It's amazing how the "independent fact checkers" show up to try and "correct" conservative reporting that embarrasses the Biden administration. First, it was Snopes that tried to claim the Washington Free Beacon's story on plans to provide free drug paraphernalia (including crack pipes?) for "harm reduction" was "Mostly False." Now Washington Post Pinocchio-peddler Glenn Kessler is…