Column: Fact Checkers Embrace the Jim Crow Smear
Liberal journalists love to align themselves with “facts and truth” and have singled out their liberal “fact checker” websites as heroes, like they are somehow the Environmental Protection Agency of political rhetoric.
In reality, liberals take conservative accusations extremely literally, while the vilest liberal accusations get a free pass. For example, last October, PolitiFact threw a “False” at Donald Trump for saying Joe Biden was a “socialist.” Oh no, they said “Biden has not advocated nationalizing industries, a key principle of socialism. His platform on health care, energy and other...