If PolitiFact won't 'fact-check' satire, who will?

The Duffel Blog is a well-known satire site. The articles are hilarious. If you've not read it, think of it as The Onion, but from a military perspective. During the Bowe Bergdahl trial, the site ran a story titled: "Bowe Bergdahl wanders off during court-martial." You see, it's funny, because Bergdahl was on trial for desertion. The folks at PolitiFact apparently aren't in on the joke.

Not only are they not in on the joke, they called the article "Fake News." Well, yeah. It's satire.

Yes, PolitiFact actually fact-checked a clearly satirical article. They treated it like it was real, and worse yet, they published the fact-check even after learning that the site is satirical. No, really, they did.

This is why people have a hard time taking PolitiFact seriously, to say the least. It also points to the fact that PolitiFact employees clearlyl don't have many conservative friends on social media or in real life. My social timelines have at least one or two Duffel Blog satire pieces in them daily. And everyone knows they are a satire outlet.

File under: Things PolitiFact wishes it could take back.

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