But PolitiFact never bothered to interview a right-of-center Medicare expert, such as Jim Capretta.
The ad, which has yet to be scheduled for broadcast, was rated "false" by PolitiFact.
Petersburg Times and editor of PolitiFact.com, a Web site run by his newspaper and Congressional Quarterly.
The whole PolitiFact ruckus has the feel of traditional newspaper journalism (despite the new-ish fact-checking approach) whipsawed by forces it cannot grasp.
We gave this one a false on our Truth-O-Meter on PolitiFact.com.
My question to PolitiFact is, do you know how politics works?
Bill Adair, the editor of PolitiFact.com, has been helping us sort through some of the candidates' claims, and today he's here whether Barack Obama did flip-flop.
Biden also condemned ads that the McCain campaign has run that have been called misleading and inaccurate by independent monitoring organizations such as Politifact.com and FactCheck.org.
Mr. BILL ADAIR (Editor, PolitiFact.com): Thank you for having me.
That Politifact is apparently unable to understand the necessity of this, and may not even possess the vocabulary or self-awareness needed to do it, suggests it has big problems ahead.
In her determined quest for the presidency, Michele Bachmann has made several statements about historical data that were later proven erroneous and corrected by the Pulitzer Prize-winning website PolitiFact.com.
PolitiFact has checked this and said you actually have to go back to 2007, at the beginning of the recession, you'll see it's only 40 percent were lost by women.
To find out exactly who is responsible for this and if it's accurate, we've ask Bill Adair, the editor of PolitiFact, to help us find the real truth of the matter.
Mr. BILL ADAIR (Editor, Politifact.com): Thanks for having me.
Trump has offered various statements that the non-partisan, Pulitzer Prize winning website "Politifact" has found to be "False" and even "Pants On Fire, " which is a polite way of saying the statement is a lie.
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