A reader emailed me this video, and it’s definitely worth watching: (I really appreciate the emails and tips I’ve been getting lately. Keep ’em coming. Email me here, Twitter me here.) Also from the inbox: this PolitFact report is worth a read. Even though Walker is playing dirty tricks, it’s important to keep facts straight. …
Pravda on the Potomac makes a funny…
The lead in this news item over at Pravda DC (caution Politico link) makes an unintentional funny: In a shocking finding, more than half of GOP primary voters believe President Barack Obama was not born in the United States, according to a new poll. It is hard to decide what is more shocking: that half …
Conservatives Win Again
Thanks to commenter SpotWeld for this: In the spring of 2009, a Republican strategist settled on a brilliant and powerful attack line for President Barack Obama’s ambitious plan to overhaul America’s health insurance system. Frank Luntz, a consultant famous for his phraseology, urged GOP leaders to call it a “government takeover.Takeovers are like coups,” Luntz …
Mission Unpossible
I really like the idea of Politifact fact-checking politicians, but now they are really going in over their head: They are going to need to hire about 1,000 new researchers if they are going to start fact-checking wingnut blogs and even make a dent. Half those researchers could work nonstop fact-checking just Malkin and Hot …
Inventing Memory
A lot has already been written about Haley Barbour’s recollections of how the Civil Rights Era was not as bad as some folks make it out to be. Most comments have focused on the Old Nit Diddler’s praise of the very racist White Citizens’ Council of his home town. As the heat was turned up, …
Fitting
Here’s the Fox News response to a new University of Maryland study [pdf] showing that regular Fox viewers were far more likely to be misinformed on a wide range of facts: Michael Clemente, who is the senior vice president of news editorial for the network, said: “The latest Princeton Review ranked the University of Maryland …
Deep Impact?
According to Politifact, they received a number of inquiries about some remarks Bernie Sanders made yesterday: On Nov. 30, 2010, Sen. Bernie Sanders, an Independent from Vermont, made a Senate floor speech about the gap between rich and poor in America. It soon went viral on the Internet. After receiving a number of requests from …