Sen. Ted Cruz’s team is accusing the Washington Post of engaging in “yellow journalism” this week after its fact checker awarded the Texas lawmaker “four Pinocchios” for an ad that says Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., supported a bill that would have allowed Islamic terrorists into the United States.

“Cruz writes in his book that there’s a new form of yellow journalism called ‘fact-checking,’ which is really just another way for liberals to attack conservatives,” campaign spokesman Brian Phillips told the Washington Examiner’s media desk.