The issue:
The fact checkers:
Kevin Robillard: writer, researcher
Greg Joyce: editor
Analysis:
Do we need additional evidence that PolitiFact routinely disregards standards for objective reporting? Have a look at Robillard's first two paragraphs:
Conservatives have long feared that America is losing its sovereignty to international organizations, dating back to the John Birch Society issuing warnings about "one world government" in the 1950s.Robillard is not reporting. He has presented an argument, an argumentum ad hominem (argument to the person), suggesting that his subject is motivated by fear. It is the stuff of editorial journalism. I checked for any conspicuous sign from PolitiFact that might, for the reader's sake, distinguish Robillard's piece from objective journalism. I failed to find one.
And perhaps nothing evokes this fear more than the possibility of an international police or military force with power over American citizens. A recent executive order signed by President Barack Obama dealing with the International Criminal Police Organization, or Interpol, has reignited those fears.
Now that we are suitably primed with the expectation that Newt Gingrich will offer his statement out of fear,
