The Ten Worst Fact-Checks of the 2012 Election

In an election season full of twists and turns, there was probably no development more detrimental to politics than the proliferation of liberally biased, self-styled “fact-checkers” who actually made the 2012 campaign less, rather than more, fact-based. Ben Domenech, in his must-read daily newsletter The Transom, has compiled a list of the ten worst fact-checks of this year’s election cycle. Among Ben’s most egregious examples relate to the debates about Medicare refor...