Those "truth checkers" beloved of the media use "1984 rules" when to comes to "truth."

Hot Air points to Politifact's painful inability to rate the claim that Obama ate dog as "true."

More significantly, PolitiFact’s responses ignore their much more relevant track record in this particular area. For example, PolitiFact rated the story about the Romneys transporting the family dog on the roof of their car as “Mostly True.” And PolitiFact rated the story about former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee frying squirrels in a popcorn popper simply “True.”

Thus, it is apparent when it comes to stories about Republican presidential candidates eating unusual animals or arguably stressing a dog, PolitiFact has its Truth-O-Meter at the ready. When a Democrat president’s book contains the admission he ate dog, PolitiFact cannot find its Truth-O-Meter. When Obama is the subject, PolitiFact’ s “heart” simply disappears, even when the problem is made apparent to them by public complaint.

That this supposed Ministry of Truth is biased is not exactly news. A prior study by the University of Minnesota Humphrey School of Public Affairs found PolitiFact harbored a large bias against Republicans. But their double-standard is usually not so obvious and easily exposed.

Why "Truth Checkers" are just another Leftist Orwell-ploy.

Truth is a lie.

Don Surber writes about the Washington Post's "fact checker" Glenn Kesler:

Then there is Sandra Day’s comment (she of the RNC) that “For far too long women have been left behind in Obama’s job market. Of the 740,000 jobs lost since Obama took office, 683,000 of them were held by women. That is truly unsustainable.”

The statement is true.

But Glenn Kessler called this “true but false,” echoic of the New York Times headline over a story on CBS News libeling President Bush as “fake but accurate.”

From Glenn Kessler: “We cannot fault the RNC’s math, as the numbers add up. But at this point this figure doesn’t mean very much. It may simply a function of a coincidence of timing — a brief blip that could have little to do with ‘Obama’s job market.’ If trends hold up over the next few months, then the RNC might have a better case. But at this point we will give this statistic our rarely used label: True but false.”

In short, Glenn Kessler hates that a Republican is correct.

Look, if newspapers are going to have silly fact checkers — and every item in every story should be checked for facts — how about we cut out the “in context” noise. Is what he or she said true?

If yes, say yes.

If no, say no.

In either case prove it.

If Glenn Kessler wants to offer his opinion on the subject, then he should go live on the editorial page. Otherwise, he is the one who is the fake.