statement is false. therefore, they rate it mostly true. do you remember when lawrence o'donnell said that when the g.i. bill passed in 1944 some critics of the law called it a form of welfare? politifact rated that false because they didn't understand that when someone said it was like going on the dole, they didn't understand that the dole means welfare. destroy. fact-checking is a noble thing. the desire to independently verify facts that you hear in news and political conversation, that is a noble impulse, and everybody should do it. honestly, third-graders who can spell google can do it alone without help. but instead of just expecting people to do this individually, instead for some reason as a nation we have grown a new terrible, terrible mini industry wherein an organization that apparently cannot even google has decided to take on a sort of pseudo-official role as the nation's fact-checking resource. fact checking, yes, you can do that on your own.