The article seems fine at first glance, but upon analysis it reveals its true conservative bias. The biggest red-flag for the average reader is that the source of the story is the Annenberg Foundation, and the late Walter Annenberg was one of the co-founders of Reader's Digest, which goes to some 50 million plus homes in America, making his media reach truly part of an empire. Annenberg was a supporter of Republican politics in California, so a friend and financial supporter of Nixon, etc. So we are at least alert that this is sourced from a right-wing funded think tank. As to the actual piece itself, the focus on the president's factual accuracy is fair game, but then they actually stop short of analyzing what the real facts ... More »

Factcheck faults politicians for leaving out "key facts," but their definition of a fact is rather narrow. The key fact behind the president's speech is that he elected to attack a country that posed no direct or immediate threat to the US and he did so with such sloppy incompetence that the US Army and Marines are now being ground up by the Iraqi insurgency even as the president pushes his chips all in trying to pull something that he can describe as victory out of what everyone else sees as crushing defeat. That is the "key fact" left out of this piece, but which loomed large to anyone listening to George Bush's speech the other night.

You can always count on FactCheck to try to get to the whole truth, without mercy to either side of any mealymouth, and here they did it again.

Once again, FactCheck provides an invaluable public service, by verifying the facts behind President Bush's latest speech. Thoroughly resarched, fair, balanced and factual. Their analysis also points out what's missing from that speech, which is just as important as what's included. Well done.

Sadly "w" just doesn't get it and obediently our elected Congress marches to his tune fearful of exercising its justifible constitutional power of oversight. Why ... in the nations belt-way their all beholdiing to the same master - "corporate" funding, money the mother'$ milk of politics. Until "we" - that's you and me - choose to hold their feet to the fire, nothing will change.