Paul Krugman: “PolitiFact, R.I.P.”

I couldn't agree more with Paul Krugman on this. This is really awful. Politifact, which is supposed to police false claims in politics, has announced its Lie of the Year - and it's a statement that happens to be true, the claim that Republicans have voted to end Medicare. The answer is, of course, obvious: the people at Politifact are terrified of being considered partisan if they acknowledge the clear fact that there's a lot more lying on one side of the political divide than on the other. So they've bent over backwards to appear "balanced" - and in the process made themselves useless and irrelevant. Way to go, guys.I guess we might as well start calling it PolitiLie, PolitiCowards, or PolitiFAIL. Or all of the above. PoliticPathetic!