Politifact might have been good once, but "fact checkers" of all stripe have turned into spin merchants and Politifact is no different.

If I read "while it is true that" {main thrust of argument} "due to" {lame cop out} "we rate this as false" one more time I'm going to shoot someone.

The best was a few where they didn't even use a cop out, they basically said "we don't want it to be true so it's false" fact chdckdd! Lie busted!