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* Fact-check of the day: Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler absolutely demolishes Donald Rumsfeld's audacious falsehood that Saddam threw out the inspectors, which is repeated endlessly on the right to this day.

The Morning Plum Greg Sargent 2011

All hail designer Lolly, Twitter-tracker Claire, copy editor Jen and fact-checker Martha, who bring you our webpage on the ALA awards in record time.

ALA Awards Roger Sutton 2009

The movie stars Amanda Seyfried (Mamma Mia, Dear John) as a New Yorker fact-checker who goes to Verona with her manic chef fiancé (Gael Garcia Bernal), stumbles on the secretaries to Juliet and decides to answer a 50-year-old letter she finds.

You've got mail, Juliet, and Verona 'secretaries' answer it 2010

The independent fact-checker PolitiFact wrote last month that there "is no panel in any version of the health care bills in Congress that judges a person's 'level of productivity in society' to determine whether they are 'worthy' of health care."

Republicans warn of rationing for disabled children 2009

The independent fact-checker PolitiFact wrote last month that there "is no panel in any version of the health care bills in Congress that judges a person's 'level of productivity in society' to determine whether they are 'worthy' of health care."

Republicans warn of rationing for disabled children 2009

Gingrich's public request to Winning Our Future came after people interviewed for the film said their quotes were taken out of context and after the Washington Post's fact-checker, Glenn Kessler, judged the film shot through with inaccuracies.

Pro-Newt Gingrich Super PAC Sends Letter To Mitt Romney The Huffington Post News Editors 2012

* Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler gives three Pinnochios to the claim by some House GOPers that the CBO concluded that health reform will "destroy" 800,000 jobs, and labels it "the kind of political gamesmanship that gives politics a bad name."

Happy Hour Roundup Greg Sargent 2011

Does Brian Stelter ponder why a comedian is the preeminent fact-checker of FOX News?

Think Progress » Beck To Headline Texas Event With Rick Perry, The Man He Once Said He Wanted To ‘French Kiss’ 2010

After I've struggled over a short story, done a spell check, let it percolate for a day or two and then revisited it for tone, mood, setting and plot—I do some basic fact-checking spade work so I won't be embarrassed when a former English major from Swarthmore who now occupies a low pay/high prestige position as fact-checker gets his/her hands on it.

Fact-Checking Your Fiction Con Chapman 2011

The independent fact-checker PolitiFact wrote last month that there "is no panel in any version of the health care bills in Congress that judges a person's 'level of productivity in society' to determine whether they are 'worthy' of health care."

Republicans warn of rationing for disabled children 2009