FactCheck.org is a very influential site-- especially during debate processes. It is clear to me after viewing their website and exchanging email with the editor, that the site has become profoundly biased for Obama. I think we need to make a concerted effort to modify this.
Actions I recommend:
1. Make frequent question requests to Fact check that may force negative information on Obama 2. Ask Fact check to disclose the political disposition of their staff 3. Ask Fact check why they favor Obama about 8 to 1 in their article analysis.
The dominant narrative of this site is: Obama stretches the truth about once a week while McCain breaks it every hour. This needs public pressure.
Who died and made them boss anyway?!
After going to their site, it looks as if it is being run right outta Obama's headquarters!
I couldn't get their email to open...so, I'll copy it and move it over to open at my address.
Obama's FRIENDS control the foundation and the website.
Still, as bad as these people are, they've inspired me to move to takeover Warren Buffet's various foundations after he's dead and gone. Instead of promoting abortion, as he'd planned, I propose that we "reorient" them to finance campaigns to develop 4 legged chickens (and other useful barnyard produce).
“FactCheck”.org is an affiliate of the Annenberg, Chicago Annenberg Challenge, which Ayers and Obama were on their board.
Thanks FactCheck. Who knew that Alaska was now barely relevant to US energy policy lol? Obama you will note has no accomplishments related to energy, but then he doesn’t have any real accomplishments period in his post-Harvard career beyond attracting fawning media attention and getting elected.
Congressman Billybob
Tenth in the ten-part series, "The Owner's Manual (Part 10) -- The Remaining Amendments"
I went over there to see who was running that joint. Brooks Jackson, the guy who used to be at CNN back when I actually watched that channel. That’s all I needed to know. I couldn’t stand that guy when he was sucking up to the Democrats back in his CNN days.
Yes! I agree. I noticed this when they said that it was a lie that Obama was going to raise taxes...
It is worrisome that they are becoming so influential and regarded as a final arbitrator of what is factual. For the most part, they are just another extension of Democrat media bias.
If I start a website that proclaims me to be the king of the world, and enough people hit it, does that make it so? YES!
Great catch and follow up - I expect if the oil and natural gas production is added - then coal subtracted and wind multiplied by 57 states, adding hot air from the Dems and subtracting nuclear power, divided by the number of solar panels in Biden’s hair plugs - it might very well be only 20 percent.
Factcheck.org is unquestionably a pro-Obama site. they even claim to have proof that Obama was born in the USA! Isn’t that silly?
Sarah Palin said that 20% of US domestic oil comes from Alaska, which is quite accurate. Palin is an expert on the subject of energy resources.
Enough said.
FactCheck is Leftist, nearly all the mass media is Leftist, Europe is socialist, Asia, Austalia, S. America and most of the rest of the world is leftist, socialist, or communist.
We need to realize that we are fighting a rear guard action here in America against a left-wing world. If we lose this year, I am giving up. I’ll go on the dole and collect as much as possible from Uncle Sam, working Americans, the UN, and anyone else I can gouge money out of.
For me, it will be like when the South lost their war of independence. There will no longer be any point in fighting for a lost cause. I will compromise my principles if that is what is necessary to survive. No more lost causes.
High point of Brooks Jackson’s career:
“Several months later I was chatting with Brooks Jackson, one of the White House correspondents for the Associated Press, over a cup of tea, as I remember. For reasons that I still do not fully understand, I told him about the President and the rabbit. I was the one who leaked the killer rabbit story. ..”
http://www.narsil.org/politics/carter/killer_rabbit.html
I dunno. I think when it does the more subjective stuff, it can be biased, but on the straightforward “facts” it’s not really that bad. For instance:
http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/did_mccain_crash_five_planes.html
Debunking the nonsense about McCain crashing five planes. In fact, McCain was noted for “superb airmanship,” and factcheck highlights this. On the Palin business about 20% of the energy supplies, that’s more of a subjective thing. The article they have does, in fact, confirm that at least one source states that Alaska is responsible for 20% of oil and gas production in the US; factcheck argues with this because it is an average, and it does not constitute 20% of all energy supplies (since the vast majority of our energy supply is provided by terrorist-sponsoring countries).
So yes, on the things that can be spun, they tend to spin left, but they are fairly straight shooting on those things that are not spinnable—which is much more than we can say about the MSM.
Yes, they are biased, and a mostly democratic group.
But it’s harder for them to attack you if you don’t actually say things that are wrong.
Alaska doesn’t supply 20% of our energy. And the bad thing is, it doesn’t make any difference.
The point would have been just as strong if she had said they provide over 15% of our domestic oil production.
FACTCHECK is run by the Annenburg Foundation. Obama was a “community organizer for the Annenburg folks.
Doesn’t take much to figure out what’s going on.