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PolitiFact is known for its "Truth-O-Meter", which rates officials' public statements on a scale ranging from "True" to "Pants On Fire.” In 2009 the PolitiFact team was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting. Thanks to support from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Adair was also able to create the "Settle It!
PolitiFact's 2015 Lie of the Year was the "various statements" made by 2016 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. Politifact found that 76% of Trump's statements that they reviewed were rated "Mostly False," "False" or "Pants on Fire".
The attendance at the inauguration claim. And on and on and on. Every fact checker – Kessler, Factcheck.org, Snopes.com, PolitiFact – finds a level of mendacity unequaled by any politician ever scrutinized. For instance, 70 percent of his campaign statements checked by PolitiFact were mostly false, totally false, or "pants on fire" false.
Fine, probation, and community service. Jacob Alexander Wohl (born December 12, 1997) is an American far-right conspiracy theorist, fraudster, and convicted felon. Wohl and lobbyist Jack Burkman have been responsible for multiple unsuccessful plots to frame public figures for fictitious sexual assaults. The pair were allegedly behind plots in ...
PolitiFact rated Cicchetti's claims "Pants on Fire." A 2021 PNAS study by political scientists at Stanford University and the University of Chicago rebutted Cicchetti's analysis as being not even remotely convincing. Selected publications. Cicchetti, Charles J. (1972). Alaskan Oil: Alternative Routes and Markets. Routledge.
Betsy McCaughey. Elizabeth Helen McCaughey ( / məˈkɔɪ /; born October 20, 1948 [1] formerly known as Betsy McCaughey Ross ), is an American politician who was the lieutenant governor of New York from 1995 to 1998, during the first term of Governor George Pataki. She unsuccessfully sought the Democratic Party nomination for governor after ...
PolitiFact rated the claim "Pants on Fire", having found that there were no references to a "surge" in their review of state and national articles about the election, and that reports had accurately listed the number of COVID-19 cases potentially related to the election.
During the campaign, Scott called Nelson a "socialist", an assertion PolitiFact described as "pants-on-fire" false. Scott sought to avoid mentioning Trump and at times criticized or distanced himself from actions of the Trump administration, whereas in the past he had used his friendship with Trump to boost his profile and had been an early and ...