is a fact-checking outfit, and among the many things it has checked are statements about the Ryan budget. Indeed, it has assembled made about Ryan and his budget plan, including statements from Ryan himself.
For example, PolitiFact takes up Obama's statement that and finds it to be mostly true. It examines Vice President Joe Biden鈥檚 statement that and finds it to be false. As for Ryan, PolitiFact says his statement that is "mostly true."
PolitiFact鈥檚 value is its ability to debunk. PolitiFact doesn鈥檛 shy from noting "pants on fire" claims from officeholders on both sides of the aisle, party officials, "super PACs," and advocacy groups. A project of the Tampa Bay Times (formerly the St. Pete Times), the PolitiFact site won the Pulitzer Prize for public service reporting in 2009.
