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Fact checking

by DougJ|  April 18, 201010:09 am| 12 Comments

This post is in: Media, Good News For Conservatives

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I don’t have the energy to watch the morning shows but “This Week” is being fact-checked this week, so I may try to tune in.

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  1. 1.

    Pasquinade

    April 18, 2010 at 10:18 am

    Clever photoshopping series of Palin and Bachman as Lucy and Ethel, with apologies to the latter two. The next time that one of you put up another Palin post, you should use one.

    distributorcapny.blogspot.com/2010/04/perfect-blendship.html

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    mistermix

    April 18, 2010 at 10:37 am

    Rudy 911 is on that show. That should be interesting.

  3. 3.

    Cat Lady

    April 18, 2010 at 10:46 am

    @mistermix:

    The more interesting thing is, why is he on that show?

  4. 4.

    jwb

    April 18, 2010 at 10:53 am

    @Cat Lady: Because they needed someone politically irrelevant on which to test their fact checking mechanism?

  5. 5.

    Cat Lady

    April 18, 2010 at 10:56 am

    @jwb:

    President McCain wasn’t available?

  6. 6.

    geg6

    April 18, 2010 at 10:59 am

    Isn’t Big Dog on with Tapper today? Should be interesting. Gotta say, Doug, he’s been a bit better with the false equivalency stuff since you called him our. I think you embarrassed him.

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    jwb

    April 18, 2010 at 10:59 am

    @Cat Lady: But you forget that the media actually believes that McCain is president, and so he is anything but politically irrelevant. Rudy—at this point, he’s a joke (though a reliable one, which is why he is still called on to these shows at regular intervals) even to the MSM.

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    SIA

    April 18, 2010 at 11:10 am

    “Gotta say, Doug, he’s been a bit better with the false equivalency stuff since you called him our. I think you embarrassed him.”

    Geg6 et al, I would like to know about this – would you pls direct me to that post?

  9. 9.

    hal

    April 18, 2010 at 11:36 am

    Speaking of fact checking:

    Sarah Palin Mangles Obama’s Quotes To Paint Him As America-Hater

    While the AP runs the story as is without correct:

    theplumline.whorunsgov.com/political-media/palin-mangles-obamas-quotes-to-paint-him-as-america-hater…

  10. 10.

    demo woman

    April 18, 2010 at 11:55 am

    @SIA: Doug had a post about Tapper and he appeared to defend himself. I don’t have time to research it now but will try to find it later. It is definitely a “must read” blog.

  11. 11.

    Josie

    April 18, 2010 at 12:14 pm

    @SIA: Here is the post: balloon-juice.com/2010/03/25/careerist-sociopaths/

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    Nellcote

    April 18, 2010 at 12:28 pm

    @Cat Lady:

    President McCain wasn’t available?

    He’s on Fox today.

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