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They should infiltrate Trump’s rallies, stand in the back, and begin chanting “Pants on Fire!” as soon as he starts spewing his fabrications and baseless assertions of victimhood and claims ...
Pants On Fire!, as our regular readers know, is reserved for the most extreme falsehoods. In 2017, we let that rating burn six times. We handed out this most severe rating for President Trump’s ...
We rate this claim Pants (worn correctly) on Fire!" In the first 10 days in February, Cercone logged four "fact checks" defending Biden on the internet. Recommended.
On December 12, the self-appointed guardians of truth and justice at PolitiFact named President Obama’s infamous promise—that “if you like your health care plan, you can keep it”—its ...
Pants on Fire: For Trump, It's a Lying Game. Story by Jeff Robbins • 2w. S ay what you will about Joseph Goebbels, the Third Reich's Minister of Propaganda: the man lied for a living, and he ...
Watch the segment that earned Stewart a “Pants On Fire!” from Politifact below via Comedy Central: (h/t Politifact) Tags: Christmas History Channel Jon Stewart Politifact The Daily Show US Senate.
Removing President Donald Trump from office – and social media – hasn’t rid Americans of a political environment where lies and liars are normalized, says historian Nicole Hemmer.
The electorate is often discovered by pollsters to be skeptical of the trustworthiness of those in public office. Which means we think they tell fibs. Sometimes corkers. Rudy Navarro, twice voted ...
In 2014, we gave a Pants on Fire to seven statements. Here they are, ranked by the number of page-views they received on PolitiFactWisconsin.com. (By the way, ...
Both were “Pants On Fire” warnings, but only one was about pants. The headline was “Joe Biden put his pants on backwards,” and its headline continued: “We know all about pants.