Politifact Objects To News Today

Politifact, which everyone in journalism should see. i was going to fill this space tonight with a detailed defense of my use of the word "welfare" in our ad, which is the only word that politifact objects to. i was going to explain that other words were used at that time, such as "the dole," and "relief," and those words morph offered the decades into what we now call welfare, and that if i used one of those words in the ad, no one under 70 would know what i was talking about. but, as you saw e...

At msnbc for two reasons. first, i have the highest-rated show on the network as my lead-in, anchored by the incomparable rachel maddow, and second, rachel has defended me tonight against politifacts false finding of fact, better than i ever could myself. this is not the first time rachel has brilliantly deconstructed a politifact finding. our blog now has links to all of rachels takedowns of politifact, which everyone in journalism should see. i was going to fill this space tonight with a detai...