Who Checks the Fact-Checkers?
21st September 2011
Every election season, a variety of newspapers and other entities set themselves up as arbiters of the accuracy of politicians’ statements. These “fact-checkers” nearly always turn out to be liberal apologists who don a false mantle of objectivity in order to advance the cause of the Democratic Party. Maybe there are exceptions, but I can’t think of one offhand.
A quick review of the media will reveal that these self-styled ‘fact checkers’ check only those on the right, never those on the left. And yet this is what passes for journalism these days.