Fact-Checking the Fact-Checkers
Pretty Interesting:McCain and the Fact-Checking Fallacy by Byron York on National Review Online
...But if you look at the fact-checking of some of the McCain campaign’s most prominent claims, you’ll see that the objections raised are often matters of degree — that McCain claimed that Obama did this or that X number of times, when in fact Obama did it Y number of times — or of tone, or of verb tense. Which leads to the question: What if McCain adjusted his campaign claims to conform to the fact-checkers’ objections? In a number of cases he could easily satisfy their criticisms and still have a devastating attack against Obama. Would they then pronounce those claims accurate?[More]
Take a wild guess.
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