After 100 days in office, we find President Obama is sticking to the facts – mostly. Nevertheless, we find that the president has occasionally made claims that put him and his policies in a better light than the facts warrant. Full Story »
Posted by Derek Hawkins
The fact checking is a good exercise to hold politicians responsible when done fairly. The selection of topics and the special enthusiasm for hot topics for right wingers (guns to Mexico) smells a bit of partisanship in selecting topics. High powered fact checking might have traced the unattributed false rumors to their sources and identified sources, rather than just repeating the lies, which give them a continued life.
Top Annenberg directors tend to descend from the big business Wall Street Journal and corporate military backgrounds. Their background seems to slant their choices of material.