FactCheck.org Finds That McCain's 'Facts' Don't Check Out

[ruggerson]

John McCain's campaign on Tuesday launched a 'truth squad' to battle internet-driven rumors and blatant untruths about vice presidential pick Sarah Palin. But it was the McCain campaign that was truth-squaded Wednesday when a public policy group at the University of Pennsylvania called the campaign out for distorting its words to mislead voters.

Factcheck.org, a web site run by the Annenberg Public Policy Center, called the McCain campaign out Wednesday for releasing a television advertisement called "Fact Check" that suggests that Obama is the force behind the attacks that are zipping around the internet against Palin.

"Our article criticized anonymous e-mail falsehoods and bogus claims about Palin posted around the internet," wrote Brooks Jackson, director of Annenberg Political Fact Check, which runs Factcheck.org. "We have no evidence that any of the claims we found to be false came from the Obama campaign."

The center on Monday had posted a piece called "Sliming Palin" that debunked many of the internet chain e-mails and blog posts about Palin. The McCain campaign then released a television ad using the Factcheck.org logo along with a voice-over saying "The attacks on Governor Palin have been called 'completely false' ... 'misleading.'" The logo and voice-over were juxtaposed against a photo of Obama.

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/09/factcheckorg-fi.html

[sniffa]

1. Smack him down

Fuck him! My friends.

[ruggerson]

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