PolitiFact does a pretty good job. If Romney can cite them debunking one of Obamas claims one month then dismiss them debunking one of his the next month they are reliable enough for campaigns to trust, and objective enough not to play favorites.
Yet the beauty of facts is they are inherently objective; people can and do deny what is staring them in the face, but no one also staring at it takes them seriously.
Yet the beauty of facts is they are inherently objective; people can and do deny what is staring them in the face, but no one also staring at it takes them seriously.
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how to make political convention speeches more entertaining
- 31/08/2012 03:57:11 PM
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and how fact checks the fact checkers? *NM*
- 31/08/2012 05:19:45 PM
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Fox, presumably. 
- 31/08/2012 06:05:56 PM
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- 31/08/2012 06:05:56 PM
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the fact checkers tend be journalist and deserve all the trust that goes with that *NM*
- 01/09/2012 10:36:18 AM
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Facts are facts, and not in the eye of the beholder.
- 01/09/2012 12:08:41 PM
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That might be true if fat checkers limited themsleves to facts and not opinion
- 01/09/2012 02:44:41 PM
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Stating opinions as fact invites checking them as facts.
- 01/09/2012 02:59:23 PM
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I will let Scott Wlaker explain it to you
- 01/09/2012 05:56:00 PM
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Even Walker admits "It’s closed — has been as long as Obama has been president."
- 01/09/2012 06:27:32 PM
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well since Ryan never claimed Obama caused the plant to close it doesn't matter when it closed
- 01/09/2012 08:10:26 PM
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How could he save a plant already closed?
- 01/09/2012 08:31:55 PM
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It's obvious.
- 01/09/2012 10:12:33 PM
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what is obvious is despite him saying they would his policies didn't save the plant
- 02/09/2012 09:48:08 PM
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If he could save it he shouldn't have he could but he did say he could
- 02/09/2012 09:43:56 PM
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The video says his comments were 2 Feb, 2008, when the plant was open;when he took office it was not
- 02/09/2012 10:26:46 PM
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Then what would Daily Show and Colbert do every night if someone does their work for them? *NM*
- 31/08/2012 09:38:17 PM
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presumably they would have plenty of other material to work with.... *NM*
- 01/09/2012 06:33:33 AM
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I loathe the conventions, but this will make it worse
- 01/09/2012 03:52:15 AM
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you're talking about what people who already follow these things do
- 01/09/2012 06:40:42 AM
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We fundamentally disagree
- 01/09/2012 01:54:26 PM
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The absence of either filter or rebuttal diminishes the informative value of conventions.
- 01/09/2012 03:21:03 PM
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