An Interesting Website To Spend Some Time With

[Guest]

Here's a website that distills a lot of the political rhetoric from both sides down to the salient facts. Politifact.com won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for national political reporting. Visit the website at...

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter (http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/)

You'll have some fun and be surprised by some of the facts found to either support or deny statements made by politicians on both sides of the aisle. I love the occasional finding of "liar-liar, pants on fire" instead of the simple true or false assigned to most of the statements.

[Guest]

Here's a website that distills a lot of the political rhetoric from both sides down to the salient facts. Politifact.com won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for national political reporting. Visit the website at...

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter (http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/)

You'll have some fun and be surprised by some of the facts found to either support or deny statements made by politicians on both sides of the aisle. I love the occasional finding of "liar-liar, pants on fire" instead of the simple true or false assigned to most of the statements.

Great site for sure...thanks for the link !!!

I spent a few minutes just perusing and what really jumped out at me is...

They ALL lie !!!

[Guest]

I like the style of the web site and the light but serious approach to the subject matter.

Thanx for sharing it.

BTK

[Guest]

I like it.

Thanks

Yoda

A member of the loyal opposition

[Guest]

:eclipsee_gold_cup:Great site! Thanks for finding and sharing.

[Guest]

Good information, Villages Kahuna. Too bad there is not one like this for Andrew Blechman's Leisureville.

[Guest]

Another take on this website.....

"Journalistic bias is one thing, but journalistic arrogance is quite another.

When reporters claiming to be neutral political fact-checkers go beyond mere reporting to state with absolute certainty things they cannot possibly know, they run the risk of churning out political opinion masquerading as high-minded investigative journalism.

This is exactly what the reporters at the fact-checking operation PolitiFact.com sometimes do. A project of the St. Petersburg Times, the website's "Truth-O-Meter" purports to check and rate "the accuracy of statements by candidates, elected officials, political parties, interest groups, pundits, talk show hosts."

http://spectator.org/archives/2009/05/28/polifacts-fixers

"It sounds very Woodward and Bernstein with some hip Internet-savvy irreverence thrown in, doesn't it?

That's what I thought before I looked into the matter.

It turns out that those who serve the Truth-O-Meter often have strange ideas about what constitutes truth."