Who’s Checking The Fact Checkers?

September 25, 2008

Maybe it’s John Lott Jr. in an opinion and analysis for Fox News. Obama’s campaign is livid over ads being run by the National Rifle Association stating Obama’s positions and past records on Second Amendment issues. Obama’s people say the ads are “just flatly false”.

So FactCheck.org was called in to check the information the NRA is putting in their ads. It seems that FactCheck.org might not be the unbiased truth squad we have all come to rely on. This of course depends on what you want to believe and how much information you choose to ignore or accept.

In John Lott’s analysis, he does an excellent job of taking each of the issues addressed by FactCheck.org and doing his own fact checking. He also points out at least to major media outlets simply used FactCheck.org’s information and restated it in their own articles.

For those who have been on top of Obama’s positions, past and present on gun control, you may not find anything really new in the fact checking process. What you will find is a revelation of how FactCheck.org sees things and arrives at conclusions, at least in a political campaign, leaving me to wonder about all their other checked facts. Hmmmmmm!