With all due respect to King Brown, Politifact and the Washington Post are far from impartial fact checkers. A study by Dr. Robert Lichter at the George Mason University Center for Media and Public Affairs found that Politifact rated statements by Republicans as false or mostly false 3 times more often than statements by Democrats. Fact checking is not a "public service." It's more about the fact checker selectively choosing the statements to review and then applying their own subjectivity to those statements. Read James Taranto in the Wall Street Journal. He regularly demonstrates that many statements which are rated by the so-called fact checkers as false or mostly false are nothing more than opinions with which the "fact checkers" don't agree.

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