Monthly Archive: April 2014
Bryan W. White
April 27, 2014
In our first major (known) blunder of 2014, we hit the “publish” button prematurely on a work that’s still early in progress. We unpublished that incomplete work from the “fact checks” category and have reproduced it in full in the “Corrections” category. We do not vouch for the accuracy of this work, which is a rough draft approximately halfway toward…
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Bryan W. White
April 21, 2014
Jack Marshall of the Ethics Alarms blog slammed Democrats for their gender wage gap demagoguery with an April 15 post. That post directly inspires this critique of Glenn Kessler’s treatment of the gender pay gap. Kessler writes the Washington Post’s fact checks as the Washington Post Fact Checker. The key deception the Democrats use on the gender pay gap issue…
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Bryan W. White
April 15, 2014
We were not among those who initially discovered Washington MOM had Photoshopped a photograph of White House Press Secretary Jay Carney’s family We felt we could add a bit to the existing analysis of the Photoshop. A Daily Mail analysis claimed to find 12 separate Photoshop edits. Our analysis of the altered photo indicates that a vertical slice (bounded above…
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Bryan W. White
April 14, 2014
“Myth: Obamacare requires American taxpayers to fund abortion.” —The Democratic National Committee, Nov. 25, 2013 on its “Your Republican Uncle” website Overview The DNC’s claim helps remind us that complex issues are easily oversimplified. The DNC simplifies this claim in a misleading way. The Facts We continue our series on the Democratic National Committee’s “Your Republican Uncle” website with…
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Bryan W. White
April 14, 2014
“It was about a black president.” —Talk show host Bill Maher, on the origin of the tea party movement during the Feb. 28, 2014 airing of the HBO show “Real Time” Overview Maher’s on-air comment provides a good opportunity to assess whether racism serves as an origin or continuing motive of the tea party movement. The charge is common…
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