Originally Posted By DAR <a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/" target="_blank">http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/</a> This seems like a fair and.... er reasonable and even keeled take on the candidates.
Originally Posted By ecdc That is downright awesome. It ought to be a required bookmark for all voters. I love factcheck.org but sometimes finding specific articles can be tough. This breaks it down into a very easy-to-see thing, and if you want to read more, it's just a click away.
Originally Posted By mawnck Oh no, not those Marxists at Politifact! <a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-vadum/2009/06/03/biased-politifact-com-covers-acorn-attacks-michele-bachmann" target="_blank">http://newsbusters.org/blogs/m...bachmann</a>
Originally Posted By disneydad109 most of the times it seems that some of the time certin people may say things that could be true but also could be false so I can always believe every thing everyone tells me unless they may not be 100% correct but that's nobodies fault. Glad I got that clear now.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 It is a good site, and very fair (plenty of Republicans and Democrats both get cited for "pants on fire" as well as for true statements, and everything in between), the idiot rationalization of Bachmann's claims as found in the link in #3 notwithstanding.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan I like the "Rotten Tomatoes" simplified approach. It'd be great if they developed an app that appeared on screen to react instantly as a candidate speaks. Or something that affixes to their foreheads.
Originally Posted By DAR I wish they would take the Joe Pesci in My Cousin Vinny route. "Everything that guy just said was bull"
Originally Posted By ecdc I was poking around this site a bit more and discovered their "Pants on Fire" section. These are things that are just positively nonsense. While the rest of the site seems pretty evenly divided between Democrats and Republicans, this part is largely Republican or conservative. Certainly all make claims that, while they perhaps aren't lies, they at least stretch the truth a bit. But the outright lunacy and pure falsehood seems to come mostly from the right. Rush Limbaugh makes several appearances, as does Glenn Beck, crazy person. Ditto Sarah Palin. But the person who makes that list the most isn't a person at all; it's conservative chain emails. Without exception, every single one I saw was an extremist conservative notion, such as Obama's a Muslim or not a citizen. Or the one about taxes skyrocketing in 2011. I think it's more evidence of the difference we have right now in our country: Sure both sides have politicians who stretch the truth. Both sides have politicians who break promises when they get elected. But only one side has a huge number of people who believe in an alternate reality. And these numbskulls will actually be voting in a few weeks based on this alternate reality of higher taxes and a Muslim President. Wow.
Originally Posted By ecdc Oh, BTW, check out the Obama promises section. The guy's not doing too shabby, friends. Let's give credit where credit is due in between chanting "We're screwed."
