"Something Wicked This Way Comes"

Barry Popik of Red State offered a timely reminder that PolitiFact is spreading to the great state of Texas.  That means I'll have to revise my description of PolitiFact as "the fact checking arm of the St. Petersburg Times" or the like.

Popik's take is worth quoting:

My local Austin American-Statesman has just added PolitiFact Texas. If this works as well as the one at the St. Petersburg (FL) Times and Barack Obama’s “Fight the Smears,” then in won’t exactly be about the truth. The plan is to make this nation-wide.
It’s sort of a Snope with, unfortunately, a little Media Matters under the hood.

Or, as Popik phrased it while commenting here, "Same biases, different state."

Popik included a few examples of PolitiFactual malfeasance in his Red State post. Thanks for the link, Barry!