Politi-Score: Sean Hannity most truthful pundit

My method (see above clip of my Excel spreadsheet): Went through PolitiFact (PF) ruling page by Person/Group and included those with 5 or more PF Truthometer rulings (with the exception of Michael Savage and Ed Schultz). True ratings= 100 points, Mostly True= 90, Half True= 80, Barely True= 70, False= 60, and Pants on Fire= 50. I then multipled by the number of rulings made for the category, added up the points, and divided by the total number of rulings.

For example, Michael Savage had one ruling Half True for 80 points, and one ruling Pants on Fire for 50 points. That adds to a total of 130 points for two rulings, so dividing by two gives you an average 65 for Michael Savage.

So at this point WWBWS? (“What would Bryan White say?”) I think I’ve seen him comment that he seriously doubts this quantification method. On the other hand, this sampling does show that (1) Republican pundits are ruled on more than Democrats, (2) Republicans are found False and Pants on Fire more, particularly in the Pants on Fire category, with 7 Pants on Fire rulings for the Republicans versus 1 for the Democrats.

What stood out, though, was that the most truthful pundit according to this scoring method, is none other than Sean Hannity, with a score of 86%, on the high side between Half True and Mostly True, while the rest of the Republican pundits dragged the Republican group average down at just below Barely True. Glenn Beck appears to be one of the most popular pundits at PF, grabbing about a quarter of the rulings! Collectively the Democrat pundits were judged about 10 percent more truthful than the Republicans. Does this point up PolitiFact’s so-called left-wing bias? I don’t know.