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Current Events => Politics => Topic started by: Ralph Wiggum on August 19, 2009, 01:15:23 PM

Title: FactCheck.org
Post by: Ralph Wiggum on August 19, 2009, 01:15:23 PM

Is this organization known for a political bias in either direction?

I was reading something by them on-line today, and then did a little snooping.  They claim to be non-partisan, sponsored by the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.

Any opinions or knowledge one way or the other?

Title: Re: FactCheck.org
Post by: The Village Idiot on August 19, 2009, 01:20:28 PM

Just consider them liberal by default until proven otherwise. Like Snopes.

Title: Re: FactCheck.org
Post by: DixieBelle on August 19, 2009, 01:22:19 PM

^ yeah that.

Title: Re: FactCheck.org
Post by: Odin's Hand on August 19, 2009, 01:24:33 PM

I know they had a big ruckus with the NRA last year over the NRA's exposing of Obama's anti-Second Amendment Record.

Title: Re: FactCheck.org
Post by: thundley4 on August 19, 2009, 01:36:01 PM

Is the Annenberg foundation a part of the same one that funded some crap that 0Bama was involved with in Chicago?

Title: Re: FactCheck.org
Post by: Peter3_1 on August 19, 2009, 01:56:44 PM

yes it was.  They were set to move when their "leader" died.
Speeks volumes.
http://www.philly.com/philly/hp/news_update/20090313_Annenberg_Foundation_shifts_its_base.html

Title: Re: FactCheck.org
Post by: thundley4 on August 19, 2009, 01:59:00 PM

That should put to rest any question about whether FactCheck is partisan or not.

Title: Re: FactCheck.org
Post by: Ralph Wiggum on August 19, 2009, 02:02:35 PM

In the limited research that I did, there was very little reference to them being partisan to either side. 

Naturally, I always assume that they favor the left.

Title: Re: FactCheck.org
Post by: DumbAss Tanker on August 19, 2009, 02:06:19 PM

Snopes (With which I have no particular problem) is a VRWC mouthpiece compared to anything the Annenberg Foundation or anything associated with it touches.  The Annenbergs were wealthy old libs who plunged the very large family fortune into bankrolling far-left liberal media ventures, including vast amounts into PBS.  On a left-right spectrum, they line up roughly with the Deaniac DNC.