Fact-Checkers — what would we ever do without these ardent warriors for the truth? To answer that rhetorical question: Probably laugh a little bit less.
This faction of the news industry has become so easily dismissed and exposed as partisan hackery that one simply sits back and marvels at the manner in which they take themselves so seriously. And if you dare criticize them (something I do on the regular), they try to fire back that you are an enemy of the truth. How precious. Pointing out when they lie means you are the one who is lying is some twisted logic.
Politifact has just delivered its annual assessment of what it concluded to be the Lie of the Year. Now, this will come as a shock – Donald Trump was the “winner”! Yeah, we never saw this result coming. Despite rampant examples of lying from Joe Biden, an entirely fraudulent campaign run by…
