Comments on: AP = Astonishingly Petty

By: JohnFN

JohnFN — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:11:33 +0000

The laugh of it all, the 11 fact-checkers managed to find a total of six items in a 400-page book to contest. I’ve love to average that to cost per mistake.

I’m still waiting for a vigorous fact-checking of anything Obama has said or done, from college till now. I’ll be waiting a long time.

Also, Ben Smith of Politico is taking on Max Blumenthal for playing the race card on Palin’s co-author.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1109/Playing_the_race_card_on_Going_Rogue.html?showall

Question: Is Robert Stacy McCain really against interracial marriage or is this a smear? I’ve read some of his stuff and never saw it mentioned, but given his over-garrulousness, maybe it was an easy miss.

By: Rufus

Rufus — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:38:45 +0000

RES,

Quite right. There were some outright knee-slappers in Biden’s V.P. debate, and little attention was paid to them.

By: Veruckt

Veruckt — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:15:38 +0000

Kenn is completely right she must scare the crap out of these people. The question though is why? Are they really this afraid of a strong willed independent woman? Is it because she is not of the Ivy League cloth? Is it that they can’t seem to break her?

By: stosh

stosh — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:04:11 +0000

I’m pretty sure one fact checker could come up with more than a half-dozen errors (some of us call them “lies”) in the average casual response from Bill Clinton.

By: RES

RES — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:59:24 +0000

Just a reprise of the after action reporting on Palin’s debate with Joltin’ Joe Biden. You will recall that any potentially questionable claim by Palin was examined with the attention to minute detail typically demonstrated by internet trolls whil the obvious fact that Biden inhabits an alternate reality was blithely ignored. I skimmed through the AP “fact” check and quickly determined that it was not worth close examination with several “corrections” wholly missing the point.

By: blackhawk12151

blackhawk12151 — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:37:45 +0000

Facts are not facts to the MSM, they are weapons. When facts are being used not to inform but rather to destroy there are no lengths they won’t go to when it comes to finding as many as possible for the arsenal.

By: Mr. Sideous

Mr. Sideous — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:27:32 +0000

and today Palin’s interview with Oprah airs. I’m sure palin’s people engotiated with Ms. O To insure there are no couric moments. Hopefully Palin had learned that much for her pains.

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:26:00 +0000

I bow Rich…that was outstanding.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:11:26 +0000

The AP’s defense is that they had so little time to fact-check the book that they had to assign many people to split it up.

So the question is, why was it so important to fact-check this particular book so quickly?

By: Kenn Christenson

Kenn Christenson — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:41:04 +0000

All I can say is, she must scare the crap out of these people.