Why Politifact has become a joke, part 5,834

Stanley doesn’t make a tape measure long enough to measure the lengths some fact checkers will go to in order to avoid admitting Trump’s correct about something. Here’s another example:

.@realDonaldTrump has claimed that Democrats repeatedly supported physical barriers, but changed their minds only after he was elected president. That's Mostly False. https://t.co/R4qJg1Q6QM pic.twitter.com/G8asmzedI5

— PolitiFact (@PolitiFact) January 19, 2019

To paraphrase Bill Clinton, it depends on what your definition of “mostly false” is:

Politifact got it right by making Obama’s “if you like your plan you can keep it” their Lie of the Year in 2013, their misses far outnumber their hits, which isn’t exactly what I look for in a trusty “fact-checker.”