washingtonmonthly.com - 9/7/2008
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FALSE EQUIVALENCY.... I tend to like the fact-checking work the Washington Post's Michael Dobbs has done over the course of the campaign, but this morning, he published an item about "some of the more questionable claims" that didn't quite work....
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Palin and the Press
Newshoggers.com —
... So forget the idea that the press will actually do its watchdog role. It hasn't for the last eight years at least, and if there is anything the Republicans have learned, and the rest of us should have learned, it's that hiding from the press doesn't make them more aggressive, as Greenwald points out, it makes them more eager to please.
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No sooner posted than proof arrives. Via Steve Benen at the Washington Monthly, the Fact Checker has this to say about Palin's claim that ...
Naked David Broder Speaks
Obsidian Wings —
... by hilzoy
Over at the Washington Monthly, Steve Benen notes a Washington Post fact-check that equates these claims:
(1) Joe Biden said that "In the Senate, John[McCain] has voted with President Bush 95 percent." In fact, he voted with Bush 95% of the time in 2007, but his average over the entire Bush presidency is 90%, which the WaPo says is "significantly lower".
(2) Sarah Palin's claim that she said "thanks but no thanks" to the Bridge to Nowhere. The WaPo describes her as "overstating her opposition" to the bridge.
Steve Benen asks: ...
She is the girl of his dreams
The Sideshow —
... Steve Benen fact-checks the fact-check at the WaPo that treats a true statement by Biden and an outright lie by Palin as equally "questionable" statements. ...
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