On Saturday, October 16, PolitiFact posted a TV video being shown by PolitiFact Rhode Island on its Facebook page. The video shows Tim Murphy, the Editor, who said:
“Campaign promises, political attacks—how many times have you heard a politician make a statement and wonder, is that really true? The Providence Journal’s PolitiFact Rhode Island Team will help you find the truth in politics: researching, going to the original sources of claims, and when we are finished, you will know if the political statement is True, Half True, or Positively Ridiculous Pants on Fire. On the record fact-checking from the Providence Journal’s PolitiFact Rhode Island team, see us on line at projo-politifact.com.”
The commentary which followed was some of the best I’ve seen, and of course, there was Bryan White dominating the thread. I put in a few “likes” in (as in the title of this post, from a comment by Cheryl Layos), but this post by him really caught my attention:
