Sweeping statements oft fuel fact checks
As fact-checkers, we sit up especially straight when someone connected to Texas politics makes a flat-out claim. Absolutes seem to holler for review.
As fact-checkers, we sit up especially straight when someone connected to Texas politics makes a flat-out claim. Absolutes seem to holler for review.
Florida Gov. Rick Scott will deliver his first State of the State speech at 6 p.m. March 8, 2011, the opening day of the spring legislative session -- and we’ll be fact-checking.
Rep. Anthony Weiner and Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly jousted whether Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas should recuse himself from a case on the health care law. We talk with experts to get the facts.
Elected officials aren’t the only ones sounding off on Texas politics. We’re lately checking fast balls launched from the Big Apple.
Move over, Elmo. After last week’s outbreak of truthiness, no one can be more tickled than PolitiFact Georgia.
Partisans were on target about subjects as disparate as county budget cuts and "Sesame Street," which launched the career of the Muppet that inspired the Tickle Me Elmo doll. They even fared well on the contentious issues of illegal immigration and abortion. The sole exception was President Barack Obama on Social Security checks.
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We fact-check an ad that says workers are losing while corporations get tax breaks.
The Wisconsin budget battle has kept the Truth-O-Meter busy. Here's a guide to the main claims from each side and how we've rated them.
In a Fox News interview this week, Gov. Rick Perry said he wishes he was part of Thursday’s Washington huddle between President Barack Obama and his Mexican counterpart, Felipe Calderon. He also bemoaned conditions along the U.S.-Mexico border, touching on hot topics we’ve fact-checked before.
The Wisconsin budget controversy has generated sharp rhetorical clashes over ideology, budget priorities and tactics -- and the largest sustained protests in Madison since the Vietnam War,
The main event: An argument over collective bargaining rights and compensation for state and local government employees that has spurred national interest.
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An Ohio state legislator claimed that Wendy's founder Dave Thomas left the state and fled to Florida as he was dying to avoid the estate tax. PolitiFact Ohio put the claim to the Truth-O-Meter.
Did she really say that the military should stab or club the enemy "in order to minimize the carbon output"? Only in a satirist's mind.