Fact-checkers ignore Tlaib, the West needs US leadership and other commentary

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Media watch: Fact-Checkers Ignore Tlaib Among the “outrageous falsehoods” that earned Rep. Rashida Tlaib a House censure “was clinging to the false claim that Israel bombed the al-Ahli hospital in Gaza. But guess what? Our professional ‘fact-checkers’ haven’t located that lie . . . or any other nutty utterance, like her laughable claim that ‘from the river to the sea’ isn’t a Hamas slogan about the eradication of Israel,” reports Tim Graham at Fox News. Indeed, PolitiFact has done only one Tlaib fact-check in her four years in Congress; FactCheck.org’s “archive page lists eight fact checks — and all eight...