The PBS partnership with the liberal “fact checkers” at PolitiFact was celebrated on Christmas with a seven-minute promotional segment for their “Lie of the Year” award, granted to Donald Trump and J.D. Vance for Trump’s claim Haitian migrants were “eating the pets” in Springfield, Ohio.
They didn’t prove that, but PBS made no attempt to question the liberal tilt of PolitiFact in 2024 — because they share the tilt. In the first nine months of the year, NewsBusters found Republicans were rated “Mostly False” or worse 79 percent of the time, more than twice as often as Democrats (36 percent). Weekend anchor Ali Rogin asked if there was a “kernel of truth” in this. Sanders said no.
KATIE SANDERS: J.D. Vance even acknowledged that these reports he was hearing from his constituents might turn out to be false. But, when they did, when they turned out to be…
