Talk:FactCheck

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In "Most of its content consists of rebuttals to inaccurate, misleading, or downright false claims by both Democrats and Republicans." I removed "both", because there are other political parties. Dhochron 21:35, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

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non-partisian? FactCheck.org is strongly right-wing. Kevin Baas^talk 19:47, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

No it isn't. On the front page today (July 11, 2006) are articles correcting Republican smear campaigns on the estate tax and Republican led efforts regarding global warming and immigration.--206.181.226.34 21:53, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

They criticize both sides, but I have witnessed times where they threw softballs to the right and hardballs at the left within a week or so, using different standards on the same subject. I have not followed them recently but judging from the time I did, I would "strongly right-wing" is too strong an adjective for them. In other words I agree that they are right-leaning, but would not go so far as to say they are hard right. I don't think there are enough reliable sources (it just hasn't come up enough that I'm aware of) to call them right-leaning in the article, but we should be cautious in implying that they are balanced and non-partisan. DanielM 09:27, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

We certainly shouldn't say that the organization rebuts "inaccurate, misleading, or false claims". It rebuts claims that it considers to fall within those categories, but we shouldn't endorse its POV. We should also include a reference to the criticism that it's biased toward the right. JamesMLane t c 05:42, 6 March 2008 (UTC)