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Partisan PolitiFact Guru Bill Adair Admits They’re Partial

PolitiFact co-founder Bill Adair is still doing liberal-media interviews for his book on why Republicans lie more. It’s titled Beyond the Big Lie: The Epidemic of Political Liars, Why Republicans Do It More, and How It Could Burn Down Our Democracy. He’s been promoted on CNN, MSNBC, PBS, and now on NPR stations.  All the Republican-hating media are loving it.

He admitted to On The Media host Brooke Gladstone that the “Truth-O-Meter” is an imprecise, subjective measurement. Everything about the “independent fact-checkers” is loaded with partisan opinion.

Gladstone noted that in his book, he admits he lied on C-SPAN in 2012 when he tried to claim he doesn’t differentiate between the political parties when it comes to fact-checking. He recalled telling a caller, “You know, I can honestly say I don’t keep score.” Well, we did keep score.”

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