Rosen's Fix For The Sunday Shows

Jay Rosen may be on to something with his "Wednesday Fact Check" fix for the Sunday shows. Especially with the lengths Republicans are willing to go through these days to lie and misinform the public. I also like Jason Linkin's proposal of real time fact checking but I know in my heart that there is no way David Gregory would ever call bullshit to say John McCain to his face on air.

They Don't Want It With Stuart Smally

Al Franken just keeps kicking Republicans in the ass and its hilarious because you can tell they aren't used to be called out on their bullshit. Can we get more Senators like him for Christmas? Pretty please?!



It made it all the funnier when John Thune, the number #4 in GOP leadership and a wingnut idol, had to run and get his big brother John McCain to try to fight his battle. Too bad the war was already lost....

CNN Just Keeps On "Leaving It There"

Jon Stewart PWNS CNN for fact checking a SNL skit.

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart	Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c
CNN Leaves It There
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WaPo Is A Safe Haven For Neo Cons And Pro Torturists

When Politico is fact checking you then you know that you have jumped the shark, the whale and the giant octopus!

For a more complete debunking of the Washington Post article yesterday and the new one today which reported that torture "worked" on Khalid Sheik Muhammed despite tons of evidence to the contrary I would recommend emptywheel's posts here and here.

How screwed up is it that in 2009 we are even having to prosecute the argument against torture in the court of public opinion?

The White House Gets In The Game

Health Insurance Reform Reality Check, brought to you by the White House.


Hey, better late than never, right?

Please make sure you include it in all of your germane reply to alls through out the day. You don't have to sell people on it, just expose them to it to try to get the word out.

Fact Checker In Chief

If you want a job done right, you might as well do it yourself!

President Obama on health care reform.

Useful Tool

Well its not quite fightthesmears but this Politifact link does a pretty damned good job of debunking a lot of the falsehoods being spread on chain emails over health care reform. I suggest sending it out to all your friends and family just in case.

The Great Debunking

I didn't really feel like posting on the stupid assed fake photo of President Obama supposedly looking at some chick's booty. But after getting an email from a family member who had also been duped by the Drudge promoted picture I figured I should throw something up about it. Its really ridiculous that an respectable news outlet is taking Matt Drudge seriously any damn way.

Anyway, here you go.