The documentation is excellent as usual, and FactCheck remains neutral.

As usual FactCheck does an excellent job analyzing propaganda masquerading as policy. It’s all there: objectivity, evidence backing up the analysis, and a liberal use of quotes and links.

an excellent piece of journalism, well-researched, well-linked and well-referenced. The storywriter's, as well as FactChecks' point is well taken by this: 'The GOP is certainly entitled to state those opinions, and it’s not our role to argue for or against them. Nor is it our job to say whether the promises laid out in the document would be good policy or bad policy. That will be debated elsewhere for the remainder of the campaign. Our role here, as always, is to say when facts cited to support the arguments are false or misleading.'

This article reviews the facts cited in the Republican's "Pledge to America" to identify which are based on evidence and which are exaggerations or dishonest statements. Holding politicians accountable for their statements is one way to help our political discourse align a little more closely with reality.

Insightful exposé of the inaccuracies in the Republicans' "Pledge to America".

I love this stuff! I hear so much rhetoric any more that it's refreshing to know what of it is true, and what false. This fulfills the most basic requirement of journalism--to inform the electorate.

No. Any post, article, opinion, or editorial that has an action represented in it's title needs to adhere it's principal . FactChecking ‘The Pledge’ would require the piece to report on the "facts". Any statements that are put forth to judge fact over fiction that contain, yes but , true but, is a misrepresentation It's true, Not only reduce the quality of the work to 0 but is insulting to anyone with an IQ of over about 80.

Fact checking is one of the most essential forms of journalism no amateur blog will ever be able to replace

This was a very well written piece that was extensive and well researched. It was factual and well sourced, having extensive amount of statistics from government websites and previous articles published. It was fair in that, although the article was clearly critical of the Republican "Pledge to America", it did give that the statements they had given were not 100% untrue. The article was extensively went through each point of 'dubious factual claims'. It was definitely relevant because with so much information floating around these days about the economy and what the parties are saying, its good to get a third party perspective. Overall it was a very good read, well written, and definitely opens the table for conversation about ... More »