The Fact-Checkers, Setting Their Sights on the Statements That Matter

Thursday, October 16, 2008

Glad to see those touting themselves as fact-checkers keep their eyes open for the big issues:

The debate had barely concluded when ABC News' George Stephanopoulos threw it over to reporter John Berman at the network's "fact check desk" in Washington.

"One of the more telling things in this debate was Joe the Plumber," Berman chimed in, "but as you noted, his name was Joe Wurzelbacher. John McCain got it wrong, calling him Joe Wurzelberger. And that was just the beginning."

The article goes on to note that FactCheck.org felt the need to fact-check Mitt Romney's hyperbolic but small-potatoes statement that "In the next 10 years, we'll see more progress, more change than the world has seen in the last 10 centuries", declaring it "so far beyond the usual bounds of campaign exaggeration as to be worthy of ridicule." Right. Because none of us got the gist, "lots of changes coming up in the next decade."

For me, it was Factcheck.org's egregious pro-Obama spin on an NRA ad that made me lose faith in their analysis...

10/16 02:22 PM Share