Mediaite
Our investigations stand on Mediaite's reporting. This page collects every story of theirs we cite, every page on this site that uses it, and how we graded each claim built on it.
The reporting we cite
9 stories, each opening at its source.
- Mediaite: registered sex offender led ‘integrity and honesty’ prayer at Whatley’s rally (King’s 1998/2010 convictions; the Aug. 28 event with Oz)
- Mediaite: CNN Moderator Abby Phillip Doesn’t Accept Bernie’s Denial
- Mediaite: James Carville Trashes Progressives as Ignorant on CNN
- Mediaite: Ex-Clinton pollster says it’s ‘highly likely’ Stevens voters flip to deliver Rogers a win
- Mediaite — Lutnick calls data-center water concern 'propaganda'
- Mediaite: MSNBC Panelist — Bernie Sanders 'Makes My Skin Crawl'
- Mediaite — 'Legal grounds for firing': details leak from the staff meeting
- Mediaite — Vance: doing 'God's work' and 'if that leads to the end times, OK'
- Mediaite — Netanyahu was personally warned Hamas was planning a 'terrifying operation' 10 days before Oct 7 (report)
Where their work appears on this site
- Thumb on the Scale →
- Data Centers, Cows, and Your Water →
- The Permanent Pollster →
- The Freakout →
- The Warning He Didn't Pass On →
- Projection →
- The Editor-in-Chief →
- “OK With the End Times” →
- Israeli Influence on the United States →
- Looting the American Public →
- Fake Opposition →
- Media Ownership →
- Sowing Division →
- The Tech Right →
- Who Controls What You Get to Know →
How we graded the claims built on their work
7 FACT · 3 PROBABLY TRUE · 1 SOME SMOKE. A grade is our reading of the public record on one claim, not a verdict on the person.
- Projection →
A former RNC chairman and Trump-endorsed Senate nominee turns up twice: a registered child-sex offender led the prayer at his rally, and another had a role in his state party.
FACT - Thumb on the Scale →
At the Jan 14, 2020 CNN debate, the moderator framed a question on a claim Sanders had just denied — as though it were settled.
FACT - Thumb on the Scale →
In 2026, CNN built a special around a strategist’s open ‘contempt’ for the progressive left.
FACT - The Permanent Pollster →
In 2026, Penn went on Fox to explain how the Muslim progressive Abdul El-Sayed would lose.
FACT - Data Centers, Cows, and Your Water →
Lutnick said data centers 'don't use water' and pointed at cows instead.
FACT - The Permanent Pollster →
Penn is a mercenary power broker who monetizes ‘the center’ and brands the left as unelectable.
PROBABLY TRUE - The Freakout →
The antagonism predated the 2020 peak: in July 2019 an MSNBC analyst said Sanders ‘makes my skin crawl.’
FACT - The Editor-in-Chief →
The death toll as a 'magic number,' and 'legal grounds for firing.'
PROBABLY TRUE - Data Centers, Cows, and Your Water →
The false claim serves the data-center industry, not the public.
PROBABLY TRUE - “OK With the End Times” →
Vance said that if his work leads to the end times, 'OK' — and if it builds a lasting world, 'great too.'
FACT - The Warning He Didn't Pass On →
Whether Netanyahu personally got and buried this specific warning is credible but unproven.
SOME SMOKE