Newt’s pants are on fire! Not surprised, are you?
Here’s a point that shoots right into the split between left and right: 19 of the last 20 “Pants on Fire” ratings on PolitiFact’s Truth-o-Meter are held by rumors, errors and lies from the right.
In other words, the idea that “both sides do it” is a bit of a myth. There is no moral equivalence between one side lying 19 times as much as the other.
Right wingers will respond as they typically do: They will attempt to work the ref. They will claim that PolitiFact, a Pulitzer Prize winning project run by the St. Petersburg Times, is “biased.” But that simply doesn’t wash in this case. If anything, PolitiFact has bent over backwards to throw a harsh spotlight on misrepresentations from the left.
Case in point: The sole “Pants of Fire” rating for the left side out of the most recent 20. Read more
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