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Health care bill or 'War & Peace' -- which is longer?

They are both epic works of literature. One begins like this:"Well, Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the Buonapartes. But I warn you, if you don't tell me that this means war, if you still try to defend the infamies and horrors perpetrated by that Antichrist—I really believe he is Antichrist—I will have nothing more to do with you and you are no longer my friend, no longer my 'faithful slave,' as you call yourself! But how do you do? I see I have frightened you—sit down and tell me all the news." The other ... >>More

Republican Leader John Boehner | Fact Check: Criticism of ...

Fact Check: Criticism of “Abortion Fee” Comes Up Short; Pro-Life Experts Back Boehner's Concerns About Taxpayer-Funded Abortion. Posted by GOP Leader Press Office on November 20th, 2009. When it comes to the issue of taxpayer funding ...

AP: Reports On 11-Person Fact-Check Of 'Going Rogue' Are 'Inaccurate' - TPM LiveWire (blog)


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AP: Reports On 11-Person Fact-Check Of 'Going Rogue' Are 'Inaccurate'
TPM LiveWire (blog)
AP, Going Rogue, Sarah Palin The Associated Press issued the following statement on their fact check of Sarah Palin's book, "Going Rogue: An American Life. ...
AP Turns Heads for Devoting 11 Reporters to Palin Book 'Fact Check'FOXNews
AP Devotes 11 Reporters to 'Fact Check' Sarah Palin's BookHabledash (satire) (blog)
Fox News taking news direction from Sarah PalinMedia Matters for America
Huffington Post (blog) -New York Times -abc7news.com
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Health 'reform': AP should fact-check itself - San Diego Union Tribune


Health 'reform': AP should fact-check itself
San Diego Union Tribune
The Associated Press is under fire/facing mockery for its decision to assign 11 reporters to fact-check Sarah Palin's new book when it didn't ...

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The AP's Palin panic - New York Post


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The AP's Palin panic
New York Post
AP didn't send 11 reporters to fact-check President Obama's two books (it didn't bother to fact-check them at all). Nor did it hold Vice President Joe ...
What Is AP Thinking?Harrisonburg Daily News Record
Sarah Palin approval numbers are on the way upExaminer.com
One less news agency covering public policy is a good thing for Examiner.com ...Examiner.com

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Fact Check: Palin's Book Goes Rogue on Facts « Sarah Palin Truth Squad

Fact Check: Palin's Book Goes Rogue on Facts. November 19, 2009 · Leave a Comment · Palin shrugs off the truth on many, many points in her new book "Going. Sarah Palin shrugs off the truth on many, many issues in her new book "Going ...

A chain e-mail full of praise

We got a chain e-mail recently that purports to list 90 accomplishments from President Barack Obama's first six months in office. Honestly, most of the chain e-mails we get are of the anti-Obama variety. This one is decidedly positive. It also breaks with the tradition of all-capital letters, liberal use of exclamation points and in a serious breach of style, it's signed. The list was penned by Robert Watson, a professor of American Studies at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Fla. Watson, a registered Democrat who says he voted for Obama, lectures a few times a week in the community ... >>More

Fact-Check This, Associated Press! (O did not write his memoirs ...

November 18, 2009 Fact-Check This, Associated Press! By Jack Cashill "I think Obama's in a league with TR," observes historian and presidential biographer Douglas Brinkley. "He created his political reputation through the written word. ...

WickedGayBlog.com: FACT CHECK: Stimulus money to phantom districts?

FACT CHECK: Stimulus money to phantom districts? Did the Obama administration really pump billions of dollars into phantom congressional districts? Republicans, bloggers and conservative think tanks have been circulating reports ...

Matthew Yglesias » The Fact-Check Fetish

This is perhaps a good time to note that there's something a bit weird about the whole fact-check conceit. If you've ever written for a magazine that does a fact-checking process, you'll know that the point of fact-checking is really to ...

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