Bill Adair not afraid of being perceived as biased

Great news for those of us hoping to see PolitiFact clean up its act.  PolitiFact's creator and lead editor Bill Adair says PolitiFact restores teeth to fact check stories that had shrunken to the gums because of--what else?--fear of the perception of bias.




Perhaps the limited context fails to do Adair's talk justice, but what we have of it is pretty much bunkum.  It may be true that fact check stories have on occasion kept to providing the justification coming from both sides of the issue.  But was there ever a bar against the fact checkers providing solidly sourced data to contradict claims from the partisan combatants?  I know of none, unless it was indeed based on the fear of being perceived as biased.

But here's the rub:  The perception of bias may be an accurate perception.

I anticipate that PolitiFact will go down in history for making a breakthrough in public recognition of that fact.  Maybe Adair is starting to gather a glimmering of realization on that point as the glow of that 2009 Pulitzer Prize dims over time.