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Pants on Fire? Despite Media Outcry, Romney's 'Lie of the Year' Was True

Even though the Romney campaign correctly said that Obama sold Chrysler to Fiat which would be making Jeeps in China instead of America, the media disparaged that case with PolitiFact going so ...
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NYT's Fact-Checker Supreme Michael Cooper: 'Romney Campaign Appears To Be More Dishonest'

The New York Times' "fact-checking" reporter Michael Cooper laments that his colleague's "verdicts that a campaign has crossed the line are often drowned out by dissent from its supporters, ...
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NYT's Fact-Checker Supreme Michael Cooper: 'Romney Campaign Appears To Be More Dishonest'

The New York Times' "fact-checking" reporter Michael Cooper laments that his colleague's "verdicts that a campaign has crossed the line are often drowned out by dissent from its supporters, who ...
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Desperate Media Scramble to Call Paul Ryan a Liar Ignores the Facts

Immediately after Paul Ryan concluded his acceptance speech for the Republican Party's vice presidential nomination on Wednesday, the media sought ways to tear down the Wisconsin Congressman's ...
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CNN Showcases PolitiFact Rating Another Accurate GOP Claim 'Mostly False'

In an appearance on CNN's Newsroom on Monday afternoon, the Tampa Bay Times' PolitiFact once again nailed an accurate statement by a Republican or conservative group as "Mostly False." A new ad ...
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PolitiFact Whiffs Again, Rates Accurate Romney Claim 'Half True'

Fact-checking website PolitiFact has rated two accurate claims by the Mitt Romney campaign as "Mostly False" and "Half True" for contextual reasons. However, when President Obama made a ...

CBS Let 'Biggest Lie of the Year' in Politics Go Unanswered for Months

Tuesday's Early Show on CBS brought on PolitiFact's Bill Adair to reveal what he labeled as the "biggest lie of the year" inside politics, which was "the claim by many Democrats that the ...

Fact Checking ABC's This Week: Most 'False' Statements Uttered by Democrats

Back in April, as ABC's Jake Tapper took over as interim host of This Week, the show asked the fact-checkers at PolitiFact to evaluate the truthfulness of statements made on the show. The results ...

Networks Aid Obama's War on Insurers' Profits

During heated battle over health care 'reform,' only 17 percent of reports point out that insurance companies don't make obscene profits like liberals say.
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