Mailbag: Lie of the Year 2011 Edition
Readers and bloggers didn't like our choice for Lie of the Year. Here is a sampling of their responses.
Readers and bloggers didn't like our choice for Lie of the Year. Here is a sampling of their responses.
Readers and bloggers didn't like PolitiFact's choice for Lie of the Year. Here is a sampling of their responses.
Newt Gingrich says it's against the law. We check the rules and end up throwing some britches on the yule log.
With the candidates meeting for the 16th debate tonight, we review our most interesting fact-checks from the previous 15.
He says entry-level janitors in New York make twice what entry-level teachers make. We put his claim to the Truth-O-Meter.
Newt Gingrich says President Obama is killing jobs. We put the claims to the Truth-O-Meter.
Presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich made some extraordinary claims about food stamps. We check them out.
The Republican National Committee used President Barack Obama's trip to Scranton, Pa., to resurrect a speech he'd made there in early 2008. But do the numbers in the RNC's Web ad support its criticism of the president?
The Democratic National Committee put out two videos on Oct. 28, 2011 -- a 30-second version and one four minutes long -- that portray former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney as a chronic flip-flopper. The four-minute version was packed full of claims that we're still checking.
During the Republican candidates debate in South Carolina on Nov. 12, 2011, Rep. Ron Paul, R-Tex., didn't hedge. "Torture is illegal by our laws. It's illegal by international laws," he said. Is it? And what's Barack Obama's record on the issue?
We've checked a claim that former House Speaker Newt Gingrich made in the debate on the economy in Michigan Nov. 9, that by 2014 "there will be one administrator for every teacher on college campuses in the United States."
We also found facts to check on "The Daily Show" with Jon Stewart.