Here is a sample fact checking on the alleged Fact-Checking-Site. Do you agree with these alleged Fact-Checking-Sites conclusions: Really? Since 2009, PolitiFact has declared one political statement from each year to be the Lie of the Year. 2009[edit] In December 2009, they declared the Lie of the Year to be Sarah Palins assertion that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2009 would lead to government death panels that dictated which types of patients would receive treatment.[10] 2010[edit] In December 2010, PolitiFact dubbed the Lie of the Year to be the contention among some opponents of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that it represented a government takeover of healthcare. PolitiFact argued that this was not the case, since all health care and insurance would remain in the hands of private companies.[11] 2011[edit] PolitiFacts Lie of the Year for 2011 was a statement by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) that a 2011 budget proposal by Congressman Paul Ryan, entitled The Path to Prosperity and voted for overwhelmingly by Republicans in the House and Senate, meant that Republicans voted to end Medicare.[12] PolitiFact determined that, though the Republican plan would make significant changes to Medicare, it would not end it. PolitiFact had originally labeled nine similar statements as false or pants on fire since April 2011.[13] 2012[edit] For 2012, PolitiFact chose the claim made by Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney that President Obama sold Chrysler to Italians who are going to build Jeeps in China at the cost of American jobs.[14] (The Italians in the quote was a reference to Fiat, who had purchased a majority share of Chrysler in 2011 after a U.S. government bailout of Chrysler.)[15] PolitiFact had previously rated the claim Pants on Fire in October.[16] PolitiFacts assessment quoted a Chrysler spokesman who had said, Jeep has no intention of shifting production of its Jeep models out of North America to China.[14] 2013[edit] The 2013 Lie of the Year was President Barack Obamas promise that If you like your health care plan, you can keep it.[17] As evidence, PolitiFact cited 4 million cancellation letters sent to American health insurance consumers. PolitiFact also noted that in an online poll, readers overwhelmingly agreed with the selection.[17] 2014[edit] PolitiFacts 2014 Lie of the Year was exaggerations about Ebola, referring to statements made by various commentators and politicians about the danger of the spread of the Ebola virus in the United States in the midst of the Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa, especially in the wake of several cases emerging in the United States from September to November 2014. PolitiFact wrote that these statements distorted the debate about a serious public health issue.[18] PolitiFact gave special focus to a statement made in October by George Will that There are doctors who are saying that in a sneeze or some cough, some of the airborne particles can be infectious. In its specific evaluation of this statement, PolitiFact noted that some experts did agree that there was a possibility of infection if an infected person sneezed or coughed directly into another persons face, but that this would constitute direct contact, not airborne transmission.[19]
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