Last night on a special post-debate edition of Hardball, MSNBC anchor Chris Matthews railed against Ted Cruz for his supposedly McCarthyite attacks on Donald Trump vis-a-vis his undisclosed tax…
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February 26th, 2016 4:47 PM | Ken Shepherd
February 22nd, 2016 6:25 PM | Cal Thomas
Since religious language has again infected this unpredictable and turbulent political season, here is a verse that could describe the followers of Donald Trump. It is found in Paul’s second…
February 8th, 2016 12:21 PM | Tim Graham
Washington Post political reporter/pundit Chris Cillizza resolutely (and unpersuasively) denied last April that the media had a pro-Hillary bias. But he certainly exemplified it in his “Monday Fix…
January 15th, 2016 1:24 PM | Tim Graham
The Washington Post “fact checkers” rarely appear in the paper (mostly on Sundays), so it’s unusual that Glenn Kessler's column appeared in print after the State of the Union on Wednesday and and…
December 15th, 2015 4:47 PM | Kristine Marsh
Better late than never.
The "Black Lives Matter" rallying phrase, “Hands up, don’t shoot,” was one of the biggest lies told this year, according to the Washington Post’…
December 10th, 2015 4:35 PM | Kyle Drennen
After Florida Senator Marco Rubio rejected demands from the hosts of CBS This Morning for gun control in a recent December 4 interview, Washington Post fact checker Glenn Kessler took it upon…
November 28th, 2015 9:40 PM | Jeffrey Lord
The brazenness of the double standard is increasingly stunning.
This time around? The dustup began as an offshoot of Donald Trump’s allegation that Muslims in Jersey City cheered as the…
November 13th, 2015 3:35 PM | Kyle Drennen
On Friday, MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell actually fact-checked Hillary Clinton’s suspicious tale of trying to join the Marines in 1975: “Those comments are being mocked by Republicans today and they’…
November 13th, 2015 1:09 PM | Kyle Drennen
As questions began to be raised regarding Hillary Clinton’s dubious claim that she once tried to join the Marines in 1975, on Friday, only NBC’s Today briefly noted the controversy, with co-host…
October 16th, 2015 5:45 PM | Curtis Houck
Finally getting his chance to interview Hillary Clinton on Friday’s The Lead, CNN anchor Jake Tapper didn’t exactly measure up as while he did what other reporters failed to do in asking Clinton…
October 8th, 2015 3:11 AM | Curtis Houck
Embattled 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton sat down for her latest interview on Wednesday and surprisingly, the liberal media’s questioner in Judy Woodruff of the PBS…
September 29th, 2015 2:45 PM | Tom Blumer
The Washington Post's Fact Checker blog, after years of usually sincerely prepared though not always accurate posts, appears to have descended to the level of hackery typically found at Politifact…
September 28th, 2015 8:29 PM | Tom Blumer
Imagine my "surprise" (not really) when I came across a Thursday Daily Beast item originally referenced by Mark Levin on his radio show (HT Joe Newby at Examiner.com) about the comments of a "…
July 12th, 2015 9:40 PM | Tim Graham
CNN correspondent Brianna Keilar talked tough about Hillary on Sunday’s State of the Union after going soft in her Tuesday interview. Keilar suggested much of what Hillary said on e-mails wouldn’t…
June 7th, 2015 7:09 AM | Dustin Siggins
Over the past few years, fact-checking websites have grown in number and influence. Regrettably, it often appears that ideology, not factual reality, guides much of what these organizations report…
April 28th, 2015 9:45 PM | Tom Blumer
It must be nice to be a leftist Washington politician representing congressional districts in or the entire state of Ohio.
You can serially fib about something for years on end, and…
April 9th, 2015 10:09 AM | Joseph Rossell
Surprise! Millions of uninsured Americans could owe Uncle Sam extra this tax season because of Obamacare.
The IRS began penalizing tax filers this year if they failed…
April 3rd, 2015 1:36 PM | Ken Shepherd
Here's some helpful advice for newsroom assignment editors and TV producers: put Hans Bader in your address book for the next time a controversy erupts regarding a state's religious-freedom…
March 30th, 2015 1:38 PM | Tom Blumer
At the Washington Post on March 18, fact-checker Glenn Kessler gave Secretary of State John Kerry "four Pinocchios" for his resume-puffing "whopper" that he helped organize "the first hearings in…
March 18th, 2015 8:14 PM | Randy Hall
Just five weeks after Brian Williams was suspended from his post as managing editor and anchor of the weekday NBC Nightly News for six months without pay for “embellishing” events that took place…
February 18th, 2015 11:54 AM | Joseph Rossell
Obamacare has increased the tax burden on taxpayers and companies, a fact ignored in recent broadcast news reports.
Obamacare created or hiked at least 13 taxes, Forbes…
January 21st, 2015 4:21 PM | Joseph Rossell
Media outlets and politicians often fall for junk science and misleading statistics. This happened recently with alcohol-related death statistics, which The Washington Post exposed as factually…
January 12th, 2015 9:44 AM | Rich Noyes
Now online: the January 12 edition of Notable Quotables, MRC’s bi-weekly compilation of the latest outrageous quotes in the liberal media. This week, ABC's Barbara Walters pushes conservative…
December 29th, 2014 2:07 PM | Jeffrey Meyer
On Sunday, Washington Post Fact Checker Glenn Kessler sat down with CSPAN’s Brian Lamb for a Q&A about the year’s worst political lies. While much of the hour-long interview focused on…
November 20th, 2014 10:23 AM | Jeffrey Meyer
On Wednesday, the White House announced that President Obama is scheduled to issue an executive action on Thursday night that could potentially prevent up to 5 million illegal immigrants from…