A Fact Not Even PolitiFact Can Spin: Conservatives More Wrong, More Often

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Rachel Maddow in Seattle

This is a guest post by Dylan Otto Krider,a skeptic, journalist and science fiction author whose work on the politicization of science has appeared in Skeptic, Dissent and other outlets(www.dylanottokrider.com).

For progressives, PolitiFact has become a joke. After years of demanding the media do a better job of holding politicians accountable and “calling a lie a lie,” the left was given PolitiFact instead. Now liberals place PolitiFact as file #1 in the evidence locke...