BP’s ‘slush fund’? Oops! They didn’t mean that!
Another Republican backs away from the notion that the compensation fund for the oil spill disaster is a "slush fund."
Another Republican backs away from the notion that the compensation fund for the oil spill disaster is a "slush fund."
The Sunday show supplies several factual claims for us to check.
We respond to Arianna Huffington.
In the newest installment of our Message Machine feature with NPR, we examine ads in the U.S. Senate race in Illinois.
PolitiFact Texas, launched six months ago, has fans and objectors--the latter including
Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst who told NPR media correspondent David Folkenflik: "This is regrettably a new low for the Austin American-Statesman and for this particular group. It shouldn't be in the newspaper. It should be on the editorial page. I mean, for heaven's sakes."
Folkenflik's report aired this week, touching off reaction across the land.
The race between Illinois state treasurer Alexi Giannoulias, a Democrat, and U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk, R-Ill., for a U.S. Senate seat has become downright nasty. We weigh in with a few fact checks from the competing attack ads.
We check claims on immigration from John McCain and Al Hunt.
With charges flying in the U.S. Senate race in Arizona, we explore J.D. Hayworth's claim that McCain was a lobbyist.
To celebrate July 4th, we let our readers shoot off their own fireworks.
On ABC's This Week, CIA Director Leon Panetta said there is "no question that we are abiding by international law and the law of war" in CIA operations in Pakistan. But not everyone agrees.
Before we sink into full-blown summer — abundant with fresh statements to test, we hope — let’s unload our mailbag. It’s too heavy to carry through July.
These reader notes are edited for length and style.
We recap the full story, reviewing our Truth-O-Meter rulings along the way.