Accuracy in Media

The Washington Post’s latest fact check defends Obamacare and Obama’s legacy against President Donald Trump’s anti-Obamacare rhetoric. Here are examples of the article’s defense of the health care law: Insurers didn’t flee and left Americans uninsured 2 million Americans did not drop out of the Obamacare exchanges Premiums are not soaring However, it is known […]

Rep. Alan Lowenthal (D-CA) apologized to The Washington Post’s Fact Checker Glenn Kessler after he was informed that a chart he used on the House floor blasting Republicans for using an “alternative fact” on methane gas emissions, which featured the column’s distinctive Four Pinocchios, was in fact not a statement rated by the Fact Checker. […]

Ron Fournier, senior political columnist for the National Journal, wants Democrats to tell Hillary Clinton to stop lying if she wants to win the election in November. In an article he wrote for The Atlantic, Fournier made it clear that while he thinks GOP nominee Donald Trump is “vacuous, soulless, and temperamentally unfit for the […]

Washington Post Fact Checker Glenn Kessler, who back in July gave Hillary Clinton three Pinocchios for repeatedly claiming that she didn’t break any laws or rules by using a private email server while serving as Secretary of State, has given her another three Pinocchios for an incomplete timeline regarding the emails on her server: “We […]

The left-wing Agenda Project Action Fund—the same group that produced the much maligned “Granny off the cliff” ads in the last election cycle—has waded into the Ebola debate with a brutal new ad blaming Republican spending cuts for Ebola deaths. The only problem, as The Washington Post Fact Checker Glenn Kessler points, out is that […]

The Washington Post Fact Checker has taken President Obama to task once again for being less than truthful when he blamed Republicans for his administration’s economic failures: “So far this year, Republicans in Congress have blocked every serious idea to strengthen the middle class.” –President Obama, weekly address, July 12, 2014 That may be a great […]

The Washington Post Fact Checker gave President Obama another four Pinocchios—this time for a statement he made last week at a Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee fundraiser in California: Here’s what’s more disconcerting. Their [Republicans’] willingness to say no to everything — the fact that since 2007, they have filibustered about 500 pieces of legislation that would […]

The Washington Post narrative surrounding the IRS’ targeting of conservative groups is that it began as a scandal involving low-level employees at a Cincinnati office, the “Determinations Unit,” a natural outgrowth of an increase in political activity by these groups. This belies other reporting by the Post’s Fact-Checker, which indicates that there was little growth […]

In a clear case of the media’s double standard, CNN has been chasing Congresswoman Michele Bachmann around regarding her CPAC comments on the President’s lavish lifestyle. This, when the majority of her speech focused elsewhere: on Benghazi, the federal debt, medical innovations, and cyber attacks. And while CNN insists on piling it on, they bring ridicule on […]

Glenn Kessler, aka The Washington Post Fact Checker, informed readers that even though the Obama campaign had misinterpreted a recent Washington Post story on Bain Capital and outsourcing, he would not award any Pinocchios (his rating system for accuracy) to the Post for the actual story, since it was the interpretation of the Post story, and […]