Fact Checkers Reach a Suspicious Agreement on Tom Cotton

Rep. Tom Cotton, the Republican nominee in the Arkansas Senate race, is running an ad highlighting his leadership in trying to fix Washington’s broken farm bill legislation. The ad isn’t particularly controversial ormaking false claims, in any discernible way and yet “fact checkers” at the Washington Post and PolitiFact have pretty savagely attacked it. Once again, the fact checkers are wrong on the merits. But more than that, there’s something very fishy about their Cotton critique.

You can watch the whole ad, but here’s the supposedly objectionable claim Cotton makes: