Now that I’ve looked at the new blogspot site which is a one-stop shop for PolitiFact (PF) detractors as created by Jeff Dyberg and Bryan White, I do have to slightly “retract” a post done earlier, as I see that Bryan (not so much Jeff) has done some work to show how other conservative ideologues have charged PolitiFact with liberal bias. Other conservative ideologues. In other words, birds of a feather flocking together. That’s why I can’t completely retract, as they’ve made it amusing and predictable.
One site they link to is called PolitiHack Tracker, an actual website in lieu of a blog, which appears to have been created by someone named Weston Hicks, currently residing in Austin, Texas. He can be found on Facebook: one of his “favorite pages” is “I hate it when I wake up in the morning and Barack Obama is president” and the Heritage Foundation, which tells me all I need to know. Besides the fact that PolitiHack Tracker targets PolitiFact Texas, PolitiFact’s partner publication being the Austin-American Statesman.
I consider Bryan a superior critic to Jeff and Weston. He may go way overboard in employing the use of fallacies, and tries to make an argument with some semblance of reasonableness, but for the strength of his pseudo-explanations I prefer to challenge him instead of Jeff and Weston. He’s the closest one can come to being objective in his analysis, or at least sounding so. On that note, one of the things I’ve seen Jeff and Weston do, that I do not see Bryan do very often, is to compare PolitiFact rulings….the specifics of a ruling on a Republican as compared to a ruling on a Democrat, to show the “unfairness” of the application of PolitiFact’s writers standards. I suppose Bryan does not do it for the same reason I have not done it: it’s too often apples to oranges.
For example, Weston started his website with two articles on Texan politicians Rick Perry and Bill White: he compared a ruling of Half True on Rick Perry (R) for saying that Texas has the most Fortune 500 companies and is the fastest growing state, against a statement also ruled Half True by Bill White (D) that the Texas State Board of Education, led by a Perry appointee, voted to remove Thomas Jefferson from social studies textbook standards. According to Weston:
For example, Weston started his website with two articles on Texan politicians Rick Perry and Bill White: he compared a ruling of Half True on Rick Perry (R) for saying that Texas has the most Fortune 500 companies and is the fastest growing state, against a statement also ruled Half True by Bill White (D) that the Texas State Board of Education, led by a Perry appointee, voted to remove Thomas Jefferson from social studies textbook standards. According to Weston:
