Most likely if you’re conservative, you’re already aware that the most widely quoted “fact checking” website PolitiFact leans left and is not, as they maintain, nonpartisan.
I’ve never bothered to formally test their ratings before, but while doing research for my political writings, I sometimes am directed to PolitiFact and often, based on facts verified elsewhere, I believe their rating to be inaccurate and biased toward a left/liberal/democrat position.
But then today, I stumbled on unassailable evidence. In an article on HotAir.com, I found that Allahpundit was quoting from another article that had caught PolitiFact with their pants down. The HotAir article, Congratulations, Barack Obama, on winning PolitiFact’s “Lie of the Year”! is partially quoted below.
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“If you like your plan, you can keep it” had to be a lie or else the law would have no chance of working. And yet, as Sean Higgins noted last month, the hacks at PolitiFact backed Obama up on it in whole or in part no fewer than six times between 2008 and 2012. Last year, in the thick of the presidential campaign, O actually had the balls to say, “If you’re one of the more than 250 million Americans who already have health insurance, you will keep your health insurance.” That’s even more categorical than his infamous phrasing at the AMA conference in 2009. PolitiFact’s rating: Half-true. On the same day, they issued their verdict on a statement by Romney that 20 million Americans would lose their insurance under O-Care — a number that’s shaping up to be a gross underestimate once small businesses start grappling with the law. PolitiFact’s rating: False. Whether that was left-wing hackery or just myopic stupidity in focusing too closely on the precise phrasing rather than the overall framework of the law, you can judge for yourself.
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The PolitiFact ratings on these two prominent political statements show their ratings bias as siding with Obama and against Mitt Romney. Both ratings are unquestionably wrong. Do we need any more evidence to support the assertion that they are NOT objective?
Garnet92
And what did the site say about Sarah Palin’s “Death panel” observation?
Politifact, Media Matters, Wikipedia, ALL mostly leftist bullshit spewers, along with the alphabet soup networks. I believe ZERO of what they put up. If they said the sky was blue, I’d look for myself, thank you. Good post, Garnet. These clowns usually rate right up there in the Garnet Scale.
Thanks for the report. More ammo when at Christmas parties.
Well, they were right in saying Romney’s statement of 20 million losing health insurance was wrong. The correct answer appears to be a bit over 90 million. Obviously Romney lied by more than 70 million……..
I’m going to say it’s left wing hackery – they’ve been backing up O too long for it be anything else. Anything Romney may have said would have been rated as false.