An Interesting Website To Spend Some Time With

 
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Old 05-22-2009, 09:40 AM
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Default An Interesting Website To Spend Some Time With

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

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.
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Old 05-22-2009, 01:53 PM
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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

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 !!!
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Old 05-22-2009, 06:09 PM
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Default That is one of the better sites I have frequented.

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

Thanx for sharing it.

BTK
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Old 05-22-2009, 11:16 PM
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I like it.

Thanks

Yoda

A member of the loyal opposition
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Old 05-24-2009, 03:01 PM
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Great site! Thanks for finding and sharing.
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Old 05-25-2009, 02:58 PM
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Default Thanks for the link. Very useful site.

Good information, Villages Kahuna. Too bad there is not one like this for Andrew Blechman's Leisureville.
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Old 05-28-2009, 07:04 AM
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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/2009/0...lifacts-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."
 


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