Thank God for the Annenberg Political Fact check. It's so refreshing to be able to go to a well-known political website and see the debunking of both candidates that goes on there. Thank God at least someone remembers that there is a responsibility to referee the political discourse, instead of just be led along by the nose like most other news outlets.
Every day I click on the site, I am rewarded with numerous articles telling me where the candidates got it wrong on the trail, and actually backing it up. For example: a September 12 article explains how Sarah Palin's recent claims that the state of Alaska supplies 20 percent of U.S. energy is utterly false. In fact, Alaska produces 3.5 percent of U.S. domestic energy. I don't know about you, but the last time I checked 20 and 3.5 are not the same number. I don't know, they could have changed it on me.
The most refreshing thing though is that they don't just hammer away at McCain-Palin, they give it to Obama-Biden as well. Just yesterday, an article was published detailing how a new Obama-Biden ad describing McCain as wanting to cut Social Security benefits in half is extremely false. He in fact supported a Bush measure in 2005 wanting to hold down the growth of benefits, something affecting future seniors, not the current group it is aimed at.
Like I said, thank God for the Annenberg Fact Check. My only question is, why can't this information be displayed loud and proud in mainstream news sources? Why can't the people who get paid the big bucks to be trusted and respected journalists do this themselves? It is extremely irresponsible for not one news network to be reporting any of this stuff and refereeing the discourse.
But of course, if they did that, then they wouldn't be able to interview the candidates and toss them nice soft questions aimed at getting them back on the show instead of explaining anything. Wouldn't that be a shame.
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