Here’s my conversation with Katie Sanders, deputy editor of Politifact, one of the best fact-checking websites, which has reviewed various statements and pronouncements by politicians in 2015 to determine which qualifies as Lie Of The Year. This year, however, that singular label was expanded to encompass a series of untruths by one particular presidential candidate […]
NPR’s Steve Inskeep wondered what President Obama would ask the candidates who want his job. I not only like the question, I like Obama’s comment about the aspects of the job that wear off pretty quickly…
Brent Budowsky writes in The Hill: According to a new poll by Quinnipiac University on Tuesday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) destroys Republican candidate Donald Trump in a general election by 13 percentage points. In this new poll, Sanders has 51 percent to Trump’s 38 percent. If this margin held in a general election, Democrats would […]
At one point during my time as a morning man on WCXR/Washington in the late 1980s, whenever I would give the weather forecast, I’d end with “right now it’s (whatever) degrees in The Most Corrupt City In The World!” After about a month, the Program Director Andy Beaubien asked me to knock it off because […]
Ted Cruz has apparently been going around quoting his favorite movie, “The Princess Bride,” on the campaign trail: “Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.” But according to Jason Horowitz at the NY Times, Mandy Patinkin (who played Inigo Montoya in the film) says Cruz is forgetting the most […]
Angie Drobnic Holan, editor of Politifact, one of the best fact-checking websites in the business, says that more readers — and reporters — see the importance of verifying what presidential candidates say and challenging them when they lie: That’s not to say that fact-checking is a cure-all. Partisan audiences will savage fact-checks that contradict their […]