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. […]

In an interview with Colorado News9’s Brandon Rittiman, Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton doubled down on her claim that FBI Director James Comey called her public comments about her private email server “truthful:” Rittiman: What kind of stuff was in those emails? Clinton: It was all personal stuff and we’ve said that consistently, and as […]

This was a ludicrous claim by Obama to make, asserting that teenagers can get a Glock handgun easier than a book. By the way, the rating scale is one to four Pinocchios and Fact Checker gave him three Pinocchios

The Washington Post Fact Checker column, which has analyzed the accuracy of both Republican and Democratic politicians’ public statements for the past eight years, is puzzled at the media’s reluctance to challenge presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump over the numerous inaccurate statements he has made since declaring his candidacy for the presidency last year. According […]

Specifically, the Cruz team said that the Post’s fact-check of their ad on Marco Rubio was wrong.

Presidential candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton made the list for some of the biggest Pinocchios of 2015, according to Washington Post Fact Checker Glenn Kessler. To make the list, Kessler focused only on the individuals or events that had earned the dubious honor of four Pinocchios, making for a list that included Republicans and Democrats […]

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 defund-Planned Parenthood push by pro-life advocates and Republicans has left liberals and the Left livid. But many Planned Parenthood supporters still admit they have not watched the undercover videos published by the Center for Medical Progress. In those videos, Planned Parenthood executives were caught on tape talking frankly about making a profit off harvested […]

It almost goes without saying that every time there is a shooting of some kind, liberals rail against gun violence and call for stricter gun control laws. The tragic Sandy Hook school shooting in December 2012, which resulted in the deaths of 20 children and six staff members, has been a particular focus of gun […]