{"id":155967,"date":"2021-02-21T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-21T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/politifact-is-ticked-that-we-fact-checked-their-false-fact-check\/"},"modified":"2021-02-21T09:45:14","modified_gmt":"2021-02-21T14:45:14","slug":"politifact-is-ticked-that-we-fact-checked-their-false-fact-check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/politifact-is-ticked-that-we-fact-checked-their-false-fact-check\/","title":{"rendered":"PolitiFact Is Ticked That We Fact-Checked Their False Fact-Check"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpolitifact-is-ticked-that-we-fact-checked-their-false-fact-check%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=155967&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>PolitiFact botched a fact-check of a fact-check in a story exposing the group\u2019s absence of a fact-check.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, PolitiFact Editor-in-Chief Angie Holan twice demanded The Federalist issue a correction to a <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/02\/17\/politifact-not-very-interested-in-fact-checking-vice-president\">story<\/a> published Wednesday on comments the group was not very interested in fact-checking Vice President Kamala Harris.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve always been more interested in fact-checking the president than the vice president,\u201d Holan wrote in an email Wednesday, when pushed on why the group had failed to fact-check <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/02\/15\/axios-deletes-tweet-doing-journalism-replaces-it-with-activism-to-allow-kamala-harris-to-spread-vaccine-lies\">demonstrably false<\/a> comments from Harris. \u201cThat was true for the past two administrations as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harris claimed during an interview with Axios on HBO published this week that the Biden administration has been forced to start \u201cfrom scratch\u201d on coronavirus vaccine distribution.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re starting from scratch,\u201d Harris said, only to be directly contradicted by National Institutes of Health Director Anthony Fauci speaking to reporters a month earlier.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re certainly not starting from scratch,\u201d Fauci said. In fact, the Trump administration put team Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/01\/22\/bidens-covid-19-goal-was-already-reached-by-trump\/\">on track<\/a> to reach its initial goal of 100 million vaccines in the first 100 days. On\u00a0the day after Biden was inaugurated, 1.3 million Americans were inoculated,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/graphics\/covid-vaccine-tracker-global-distribution\/\">\u00a0according<\/a>\u00a0to Bloomberg News.<\/p>\n<p>PolitiFact told The Federalist the group had no plans to fact-check Harris for the reason stated above, and added the fact-checking organization already fact-checked a similar claim when it was made by White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain in January. The group rated Klain\u2019s comments \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politifact.com\/factchecks\/2021\/jan\/27\/ron-klain\/trump-vaccine-plan-left-logistics-states-it-did-ex\/\">mostly false<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>PolitiFact took issue with The Federalist story published Feb. 17, however, over the publication highlighting the group\u2019s last fact-check of President Joe Biden dated for Feb. 10, one week earlier.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour report is wrong in multiple ways,\u201d Holan wrote in a Friday email. \u201cFor one, we published three fact-checks on Feb. 16, so our last check on Biden was the day before your report was published. The link you use in the story shows that. Please issue a correction ASAP.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Holan followed up two hours later, demanding an update.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politifact.com\/personalities\/joe-biden\/\">link<\/a> embedded in the initial post to Biden\u2019s fact-checks on the PolitiFact website, however, which remains unchanged, shows PolitiFact published three fact-checks after the story was published in The Federalist, of statements made on Feb. 16, including Biden\u2019s remarks on vaccines. Contrary to Holan\u2019s assertion, these fact-checks were published on Feb. 17 and 18, following the Federalist article.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-240728\" src=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-19-at-12.23.27-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"545\" height=\"537\" \/><\/p>\n<p><noscript><\/p>\n<p><img class='wp-image-240728' src='https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-19-at-12.23.27-PM.png' alt='' width='545' height='537'><\/img><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>PolitiFact has still not published a fact-check of Harris\u2019s erroneous assertion the Biden White House has been forced to start \u201cfrom scratch\u201d with vaccine distribution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PolitiFact botched a fact-check of a fact-check in a story exposing the group\u2019s absence of a fact-check. On Friday, PolitiFact Editor-in-Chief Angie Holan twice demanded The Federalist issue a correction to a story published Wednesday on comments the group was not very interested in fact-checking Vice President Kamala Harris. \u201cWe\u2019ve always been more interested in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2181292,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-19-at-12.23.27-PM.png","fifu_image_alt":"PolitiFact Is Ticked That We Fact-Checked Their False Fact-Check","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-19-at-12.23.27-PM.png","fifu_image_alt":"PolitiFact Is Ticked That We Fact-Checked Their False Fact-Check","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2181292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}