Latest Stories By Bill Adair

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Fact-checking is peachy: PolitiFact Georgia

June 7, 2010

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution launches our newest state site, checking campaigns in the peach state.

Pants on Fire in California; Barely True in Alabama

June 6, 2010

In the first segment of our Message Machine partnership with NPR, we review some of the ads in the California primary.

As Obama heads to Gulf, the facts on the spill

May 28, 2010

President Obama visits the Gulf Coast today to survey efforts to respond to the oil leak. We've been checking claims about the spill and will be doing more in the next week.

Fact-checking financial reform on ‘This Week’

April 25, 2010

Sens. Bob Corker and Sherrod Brown and White House adviser Austan Goolsbee discuss the financial reform bill. We put their claims to the Truth-O-Meter.

Colbert: ‘Who are these PolitiFact guys?’

April 15, 2010

The Colbert Report does a segment on our fact-checking. And no, we're not Russian.

PolitiFact to fact-check ABC’s ‘This Week’

April 8, 2010

At the invitation of ABC News, we're going to be checking newsmakers who appear on 'This Week.'

A new chapter begins on health care

March 24, 2010

No, the debate didn't end with Sunday's vote or Monday's signing ceremony. We keep putting the claims to the Truth-O-Meter.

Announcing PolitiFact Florida!

March 1, 2010

We launch our latest state site, this one in a partnership with the Miami Herald.

Checking Palin’s claims from Tea Party

February 8, 2010

We fact-check some of Sarah Palin's claims from her speech to the Tea Party convention and her weekend interviews.

Fact-checking Obama and Republicans at GOP retreat

January 29, 2010

At a Republican retreat, the president says he'd like to see "any independent fact-checker out there" examine claims by the GOP and himself. We accept the challenge.

Checking the GOP response to the State of the Union

January 28, 2010

Republicans offered some rebuttals to President Obama's State of the Union address. We check their facts.

Fact-checking Obama’s State of the Union speech

January 28, 2010

President Barack Obama delivers his first State of the Union address, and the Republicans deliver a rebuttal. We check the facts.

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