http://xrlq.com/2008/09/22/two-simple-questions/ Politische Kommentare mit Snarkenremarken Mon, 14 May 2012 18:16:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://xrlq.com/2008/09/22/two-simple-questions/comment-page-1/#comment-450597 Xrlq Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:20:13 +0000 http://xrlq.com/?p=3771#comment-450597 "At least as reliable as Snopes" ain't sayin' much. The full name can be useful (doesn't Bill Ayers have an Annenberg connection, too?) but "hack check" is much shorter. Then again, so is "Annenberg Political," which pretty well sums up what they're about this year. “At least as reliable as Snopes” ain’t sayin’ much. The full name can be useful (doesn’t Bill Ayers have an Annenberg connection, too?) but “hack check” is much shorter. Then again, so is “Annenberg Political,” which pretty well sums up what they’re about this year.

]]> http://xrlq.com/2008/09/22/two-simple-questions/comment-page-1/#comment-450590 Milhouse Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:28:50 +0000 http://xrlq.com/?p=3771#comment-450590 Whenever you mention this organisation, please give its full name: <b>Annenberg</b> Political Fact Check. Yes, the same Annenberg as in the Annenberg Challenge, whose chairman was by the sheerest coincidence one Barack Obama. In most elections APFC is generally reliable — at least as reliable as Snopes, anyway — but in this election one simply can't ignore the fact that one of the candidates is "one of their own". Whenever you mention this organisation, please give its full name: Annenberg Political Fact Check. Yes, the same Annenberg as in the Annenberg Challenge, whose chairman was by the sheerest coincidence one Barack Obama. In most elections APFC is generally reliable — at least as reliable as Snopes, anyway — but in this election one simply can’t ignore the fact that one of the candidates is “one of their own”.

]]> http://xrlq.com/2008/09/22/two-simple-questions/comment-page-1/#comment-450589 Patterico’s Pontifications » Unmitigated Garbage from FactCheck.org on Obama’s Second Amendment Record Tue, 23 Sep 2008 14:23:24 +0000 http://xrlq.com/?p=3771#comment-450589 [...] Xrlq points us to this ridiculous FactCheck.org piece on Obama and gun rights. I am by now completely disenchanted with FactCheck.org and virtually every other “fact checking” site out there, and this piece does nothing to dispel my depression. [...] [...] Xrlq points us to this ridiculous FactCheck.org piece on Obama and gun rights. I am by now completely disenchanted with FactCheck.org and virtually every other “fact checking” site out there, and this piece does nothing to dispel my depression. [...]

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