Posted on 09/19/2008 5:55:45 AM PDT by HD1200
I have seen some factcheck.org reports on McCain ads that just appeared to me to be superficial and outwardly wrong. Out of curiosity I went to their web site and under "About" looked at some of the biographies of the staffers. Seems they like to hire some very politically active interns from the left and throw in a couple of RINO's to make it appear balanced. This makes me wonder about the politics of the rest of the staff.
Stephen Simas Research Intern (Spring/Summer 2007) Stephen was the Deputy Field Director of Sen. Lincoln Chafee’s 2006 re-election campaign and spent two years working in his Senate office.
Jennifer Ernst Staff Writer, Annenberg Political Fact Check (6/04-10/05 Jennifer joined the Annenberg Public Policy Center in June, 2004 with previous experience in the office of US Sen. Chuck Hagel, as well as the non-profit sector.
Matthew Barge Researcher, Annenberg Political Fact Check (3/05-11/05) Matthew joined the Annenberg Public Policy Center in March, 2005. Nathan was a volunteer for the Democratic presidential campaign of Gen. Wesley Clark.
Annenberg = Obama/Ayers
Doesn’t Matt Drudge and his father have some ownership of that site?
Leftists are not capable of intellectual honesty. The truth is what forwards their cause, period.
Any organization that calls itself non-partisan is liberal.
Factcheck is just another media outlet providing cover for Obama and his lies!
From their own site:
http://www.factcheck.org/about/
“The Annenberg Political Fact Check is a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania. The APPC was established by publisher and philanthropist Walter Annenberg in 1994 to create a community of scholars within the University of Pennsylvania that would address public policy issues at the local, state, and federal levels. The APPC accepts NO funding from business corporations, labor unions, political parties, lobbying organizations or individuals. It is funded primarily by the Annenberg Foundation.”
But that still doesn’t stop DUmmies from asserting that Annenberg=Right Wing Bias.
http://phoenixwoman.blogspot.com/2005/02/factcheck-annenberg-right-wing-bias.html
Results 1 - 10 of about 4,090 for “Annenberg Foundation” obama ayers
As to Mr. Annenberg being an “arch-conservative”, I doubt that Mr. Nobel would be pleased to see his “peace prize” being awarded to terrorists like Yassir Arafat.
If you can’t decide between the Communist Party USA, Socialist Workers Party, Socialist Party, Worker’s World Party, Green Party, or Democrat Party, you could still claim to be “non-partisan”.
FactCheck is an affiliate of the Annenberg, Chicago Annenberg Challenge, which William Ayers and Barack Obama were on their board.
Obama was the first Chairman of the Board of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, which was a Division, or Project, of the Annenberg Foundation.
William (Bill) Ayers, the Weather Underground terrorist, was instrumental in founding the Challenge, thanks to his ties to Mayor Richard Daley. The first Daley was also a pal of Thomas Ayers, Bill’s father, former CEO of ComEd (owned by Exelon).
[The current CEO of ComEd, Frank M. Clark, is a major money bundler for the Obama campaign.]
Factcheck.org, used as a resource by so many who wish to “debunk” negative coverage of Obama, is also a Division, or Project, of the Annenberg Foundation.
Same way Snopes works too.
I was asking, I know they are doing something. I looked on Matt’s site and it may be refdesk.com that he has if you scroll to the bottom.
“FactCheck is an affiliate of the Annenberg, Chicago Annenberg Challenge, which William Ayers and Barack Obama were on their board.”
Since you noted above factcheck’s then I can see why its leftist.
Factcheck.org: some examples of their staffs affiliations.
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Director, Brooks Jackson-AP and CNN.
Deputy Director, Viveca Novak-Time magazine. co-author of book about the Guantanamo Bay detention center
Director, Dr. Kathleen Jamieson-democrat advocate/Bill Moyers cohort.
Editor, Lori Robertson-American Journalism Review(defunct/1 editorial writer/lost advertisers/libel suite payments). Casey Journalism Center(NBC news/people mag/Washington post)
Joe Miller-Mack/Crounse Group( democrat direct mail co.).
Emi Kolawole-Prod asst PBS’s “NOW With Bill Moyers
Justin Bank-worked for AFL-CIO and a boutique public relations firm
D’Angelo Gore-Philadelphia Daily News(beat by a free daily paper) and Washington Informer (Black DC weekly 50k circulation)
Brigitte Tapp-Minority Media and Telecomm Council demanding more media jobs for blacks.
Matthew Barge-Gen. Wesley Clark campaign worker.
Jennifer Ernst-worked for Rino Sen. Chuck Hagel
Stephen Simas-Dep Field Director of Rino Sen. Lincoln Chafee’s 2006 re-election campaign/two years working in his Senate office.
Jordan Grossman-PoliComm, forum for radicals writers
Nathan Hake-student VP Univ of PA Democrats
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If you want object information you will not find it from these people.
I didn’t find any reference to Drudge in my research.
Conservatives should NOT go on shows where there is a conservative, a liberal, and then some person from factcheck.org who is supposed to give the “truth”. This is exactly the situation on Larry King yesterday, and guess what happened? It was pretty much 2 against 1.
The Annenberg Foundation also funded the Annenberg challenge with Obama and William Ayers—no improvement in Chicago schools but millions spent. Read the Bios of the leftist then guess how nonpartisan they could be.
Hence, I recommend that we call them FactChoke from now on.
The FactCheck woman on Larry King the other night was in the tank for Obama. I think FactCheck.org was conceived by the left to achieve just this purpose.
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