Fact Checkers

[KeithE]

[Dave Roberts]

Thanks for an excellent list.

[KeithE]

[Haruo]

Fox News did not call Ryan's speech deceitful. Sally Kohn did. She says, "Fox News asked me to write the liberal response to Paul Ryan’s GOP convention speech last night. So I did. I described it in three words: Dazzling, Deceiving and Distracting."

I happen to agree with most of her critique of Ryan's speech, but it is deceitful to say, as did, «His speech was riddled with false claims, so much so that even Fox News wrote, “To anyone paying the slightest bit of attention to facts, Ryan’s speech was an apparent attempt to set the world record for the greatest number of blatant lies and misrepresentations slipped into a single political speech.”»

This is my big gripe at the moment. I don't like incivility, even when directed towards people I don't like. I don't like disinformation, even when employed in the service of positions I agree with.

[KeithE]

[Neil Heath]

Thanks for the corrective on the Fox staffer's post. I had seen it quoted and passed it along without knowing the whole story. I also saw video of Gov. Jan Brewer say she hoped the president was re-elected. Bet there's a story there, too.

I saw an article on FB just now saying that there's a massive revolt on Twitter and elsewhere against fact checkers, all of whom are left-leaning and completely in the service of the present administration. Another case of shooting the messenger when you don't like the message, IMHO. One poster suggested she could Google her own facts, as if they would change based on the politics of the searcher. But since a Romney staffer suggested they don't let facts stand in the way of their message, I guess I shouldn't be surprised.

[Tim Bonney]

From Christian history we can note that people who tell the truth tend to get crucified. There is nothing knew under the sun!