PolitiFact Flubs History As It Highlights 250 Years of Distortions
June 23rd, 2026 3:53 PM
Ahead of America 250, PolitiFact’s Louis Jacobson penned an article on Monday chronicling what he considered to be eleven instances where presidents “shaded reality as they shaped US history.” Unfortunately for Jacobson, in some instances it was he who did the shading, especially when he considered some of the nation’s most defining foreign policy moments.
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Reid Attacks Trump For Praising William McKinley, Lauds Racist Wilson
October 3rd, 2024 2:18 PM
MSNBC’s Joy Reid likes to fashion herself as a good race and gender conscious progressive, which is why it was weird when she declared on Monday’s edition of The ReidOut that it was natural that Donald Trump said he admires President William McKinley because the 1890s were a time that was “only great for men like Donald Trump.” At the same time, Reid had nice things to say about…
History Channel Spins Republican President McKinley as Bribe-Taker
November 22nd, 2012 2:22 PM
A new History Channel series uses fictionalized "reenactments" to knock Republican President William McKinley (1897-1901) as a corporate stooge who took bribes and had his speeches rewritten by business titan John D. Rockefeller. In contrast, The Men Who Built America, which aired in October and November, portrays liberal Democrat William Jennings Bryan as running "on a ticket promising equality…
