When Washington Post Fact Checker Glenn Kessler awards someone with a “Pinocchio,” it is not a compliment, since the award is named for the fictional wooden boy whose nose grew each time he told a lie. Typically, Kessler’s Fact Checker column will hand out one to four Pinocchios to fib-fuddled recipients, but Monday morning—on the […]
Biden Perpetuates Falsehood About 2nd Amendment in New York Comments
UPDATED, 2/4/22 @ 12 Noon, PST: Once again, while appearing in New York City to talk about the problem of violent crime, Joe Biden went off script and repeated a couple of canards for which he has already been skewered by the Washington Post Fact Checker. About midway through his remarks, Biden—a perennial anti-gunner during […]
Pinocchios for Pelosi After Perpetuating Gun Control Prevarication
The Washington Post Fact Checker just slapped House Speaker Nancy Pelosi with “Four Pinocchios” –the worst possible grade from the newspaper—for repeatedly using a fake statistic about the number of children and teens allegedly killed every day with firearms. In reaction, the Second Amendment Foundation went after Pelosi, an anti-gun Democrat from San Francisco, noting, […]
Politifact: New Data Refutes Old 40% Background Check Claim
Gun control proponents were just handed a setback by Politifact via newspapers in Tampa Bay and Miami, Florida and it cuts right to the heart of their arguments for so-called “universal background checks.” For years the gun prohibition lobby has claimed that 40 percent of firearms sales in the United States are conducted without background checks. That […]
WaPo Fact Checker Hammers Hillary with ‘Four Pinocchios’
Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton “relies on excessively technical and legalistic answers to explain her actions” as she did Sunday in an interview with Fox News’ Chris Wallace, answering questions about her email scandal in such a way that compelled the Washington Post Fact Checker to give her “Four Pinocchios.” That’s not a good […]