Why Politifact has lost all credibility, episode whatever:
@mattyglesias We never said "lie." We said Reid provided no evidence and our reporting found no evidence.
— @politifact via TweetDeck
What Politifact
actually said yesterday:
So they shouted "Pants on Fire!" but they didn't technically say the word
lie? That's quite the parsing from a fact-check organization. What was "Pants on Fire!" supposed to mean, then? (Then again, they re-parsed Reid's original statement so that they could fact-check something he didn't actually say, rather than what he did say, so they're not exactly strangers to creatively re-parsing things.)
Sorry, but we've got to rate Politifact's defense here as "Pantaloons Ablaze." That's different from both lying and pants-on-fire lying, but only in that pantaloons is a pretty cool word and needs to be used more often.