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Don't call PolitiFact an "independent fact-checker." When they assemble to select their "Lie of the Year," they have singled out Donald Trump in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020 and 2021. No Democrat has been tagged with this dishonor since Trump arrived on the scene.
It was Trump again this year, as PolitiFact tweeted: "A lie marked a town and its residents in the name of campaign rage. It was absurd. It was consequential. Our Lie of the Year goes to Donald Trump and JD Vance for false claims that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, were eating pet dogs and cats."
This was an unproven accusation in a presidential debate. It's also exactly the pick you expect if you only poll liberals. Everything in the "fact-checking" racket is about target selection. Republicans are "fact-checked" more, and get harsher ratings for dishonesty.
PolitiFact reported "eating the pets" won in a "landslide" in their readers' poll, with 54%. The second-place finisher was also Trump: the argument that FEMA is spending its disaster dollars on illegal migrants drew 17%. In fact, if you look at the 10 items PolitiFact listed for readers, the Trump side -- including Vance, Elon Musk and Marjorie Taylor Greene -- drew 88% of the votes!
"Joe Biden won't pardon Hunter Biden" was on the ballot, and it drew 6%. But they don't call that a lie. That's a "Full Flop."
Now let's list a bunch of blatant falsehoods the Democrats will not put on a Lie of the Year ballot:
Joe Biden is sharp as a tack, the best version of Biden ever (see Joe Scarborough).
Inflation is "falling." (Prices haven't.)
Donald Trump was found "liable for rape" by a Manhattan jury.
Kamala Harris was never the "border czar."
Jan. 6 was "the worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War" (see Kamala Harris).