Fact-checking fact-checkers

One of the concepts that put Republicans on edge during live events is the leftist media promising "fact checking in real time." It always carries the potential to be even worse than their "fact checking" that isn't rushed. Here are some of the lamest, dumbest fact checks from the third presidential debate in Miami.

On Friday, we noted NBCNews.com was trying to throw the "False" flag at pro-lifers in Ohio over the state's Issue One referendum. PolitiFact also ruled pro-lifers were "False" with a similar strategy. Opponents of abortion aren't allowed to speculate about what the abortion-rights language would allow.

Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler decided to detour from going after Republicans on Wednesday to condemn something President Biden said recently. Unfortunately, it was on the subject of Biden doubting Hamas’s casualty reports, labeling such…

The Democrats at PolitiFact jumped at the chance to “fact check” new House Speaker Mike Johnson’s acceptance speech after he was elected. They gave him a “Half True” for saying “Prices have increased over 17% in the last two years.” Johnson's office sent PolitiFact data that prices have increased that much under Biden, but they fussed "Johnson said two years, not two years and nine months."…

When it comes to "fact checking" conservatives, PolitiFact seems at war with plain English. The conservative group Americans for Prosperity offered an ad on Facebook criticizing Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) as he seeks re-election in a tough battle with Republican Gov. Jim Justice."The Inflation Reduction Act led to higher taxes," the ad said. They ruled this is "Mostly False," when it's true…

AP fact-checker Philip Marcelo beclowned himself on Friday as he rated a claim that Hamas sympathizers chanted anti-Semitic remarks “false,” not because they didn’t—he admits that they did—but because the clip “is more than two years old.”

Former Al Jazeera producer turned Snopes fact-checker Nur Ibrahim warned on Thursday that discussions of Hamas beheading Israeli babies should be taken with a grain of salt and that “people should be wary of claims that echo Islamophobic rhetoric.”

If the fact-checking industry is going to insist that it should be able to throttle social media posts, at the very least, it should fact-check the claims the post is actually making and not straw men because Instagram posts have been deemed misinformation after PolitiFact and the USA Today accused the posters of attributing a 2020 “Death to America” chant in the Iranian parliament to…

Apparently The Washington Post’s in-house fact-butcher Glenn Kessler hasn’t learned his lesson. He regurgitated one of his already-debunked arguments spinning inflation data to protect President Joe Biden.

During Wednesday’s GOP presidential debate, the various reporters at The New York Times assembled to fact-check the various candidates and it did go well as they attacked them everything from “Joe Biden hides in his basement” to Iran to energy to transgenderism.

During Wednesday’s GOP Presidential Debate, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis defended his state’s history standards on slavery by labeling criticisms of them a “hoax” that has been perpetrated by Vice President Kamala Harris. Such a defense did not sit well with the fact-checking industry despite DeSantis being correct.

Matt Palumbo, author of a new book titled Fact Checking the Fact Checkers: How the Left Hijacked and Weaponized the Fact-Checking Industry, joined us to discuss the 2024 presidential campaign and how Big Tech uses the fact checkers to crush conservative communication.

PolitiFact could hire a full-time fact checker just to monitor The View for incredibly inaccurate and silly liberal comments. But they're all liberals, so they won't. Instead, they posted a September 14 fact check of a satirical site that imagined the uproar if black conservative Candace Owens was invited to join the cast. That's about as likely as Joy Behar becoming a Bible-thumper…

CNN’s top fact-checker Daniel Dale co-authored a Wednesday article entitled “Fact-checking McCarthy’s claims while launching Biden impeachment inquiry,” which also earned him an appearance on that afternoon’s CNN News Central. Naturally, Dale’s fact-checking was short on facts and heavy on trying to explain why the controversies surrounding President Biden are not as bad as McCarthy…