Attack-O-Rama!
By Bill Adair
October 2, 2010
It's the biennial ritual of autumn: an avalanche of attack ads. You know what that means: It's a great time to be a fact-checker!
It's the biennial ritual of autumn: an avalanche of attack ads. You know what that means: It's a great time to be a fact-checker!
Fulfilling our fact-checking manifest destiny, The Oregonian launches PolitiFact Oregon, our seventh state site. And there are more to come.
Claims about beheadings in Arizona, a bogus Charlie Crist endorsement and something Condi Rice never said earn Pants on Fire ratings.
Our new viewer's guide tells you what to expect from the impending avalanche of campaign ads. You'll see candidates attacked for being lobbyists and insiders pretending to be outsiders.
We add our sixth state to the PolitiFact network, a partnership with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. And we've got more state sites to announce soon.
We'll be fact-checking speeches from Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally at the Lincoln Memorial. In the meantime, we review how he's fared on the Truth-O-Meter.
We check the Republican leader's claim about an increase in government jobs and find a stretch we've seen before: including the temporary census employees to suggest that government jobs have increased.
We review the highlights (and some oddities) of our first three years.
For our latest Mailbag, we sample the feedback from e-mail and Twitter. One reader calls us a "socialist propaganda machine." Another wants to marry us.
We put the MSNBC host to the Truth-O-Meter for recent claims about immigration and economics.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer launched PolitiFact Ohio, our fifth state site. And there are more on the way.
We're one of six winners for the Special Distinction Award.