Fact Check: Ted Cruz Attack Proves PolitiFact Is Run By Gigantic A**holes

Breitbart ^ | 3/14/15 | John Nolte

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After PolitiFact rated as “mostly false” a joke made by Republican Senator Ted Cruz, using all the known and provable qualities associated with PolitiFact, Breitbart News engaged in an exhaustive, science and fact-based investigation in order to find a way to perfectly describe the people who run the fact-checking site. We went where the facts led us, and the facts led us to the objective conclusion that PolitiFact is run by gigantic assholes.

Here’s how the final “Gigantic Assholes” conclusion was made.

Fact-Checking Republican Humor

PolitiFact’s fact check against Senator Cruz was the first piece of data used in our study.

For all the partisan reasons we’ve come to expect, PolitiFact’s W. Garner Selby published a no-win, reputation-damaging “fact check” against Senator Cruz over a joke that was obviously meant to be intentionally hyperbolic in order to illustrate a larger point.

Here is the Cruz joke PolitiFact rated as “mostly false”:

Here, we have Thanksgiving, we have Christmas, we have the 4th of July. Every year in Iran, they celebrate death to America day, which is the anniversary of Iran in the 1970s taking Americans hostage.

In order to come to the conclusion that Cruz’s morally clarifying piece of humor was a lie, PolitiFact scoured news archives and hassled no less than five “academic authorities” to see if there is an official “Death to America” holiday in Iran.

What PolitiFact discovered is that like that road-crossing chicken and that saucy farmer’s daughter, there is no official Death to America holiday in Iran.

At this point our study found only that PolitiFact was run by “pedantic left-wing gotcha trolls.”

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Politifact, Snopes, consider the sources!

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