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Mitt has openly stated that

Anonymous — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 01:10:21 +0000

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Mitt has openly stated that he will back any play that his billionaire donors desire. Outsourcing will be the job creation plan. Unfortunately, the jobs created will be overseas.

The Supreme Court has equaled the travesty of the Dred Scott case, and making with Japanese internment legal with the Citizens United case. I realize that there has direct effect on human flesh in the first two cases, but Citizens United has opened the door to buying elections and will cause suffering for many.

HubristicHooey.org, I like

tmccarthy0 — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 17:37:10 +0000

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HubristicHooey.org, I like that one, or maybe WeReportRepublicanTalkingPointsAsTruth.xxx

Thanks for your comment. What

NCD — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 17:06:34 +0000

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Thanks for your comment. What America needs more than anything, is more money checking, who is spending or 'donating' it, why, and what's in it for them, and a public who care to have a government that serves the nation, not the rich.

What I found particularly shocking about FactCheck was the total absence of any mention that Romney was and likely is still receiving millions from all these Bain deals. It would take a law firm weeks of work and investigation, and a long signed statement to begin to pin down that Mitt was not 'in the loop' long after February of 1999, and likely still is today. It might include language like below:

(Did you, Mitt Romney, at any time after February 11, 1999, talk to, communicate with, email, approve, disapprove, indicate a preference-directly or indirectly, actively or passively, consult on, refer to, inquire on, discuss, converse about, or influence, any Bain acquisition, strategic decision, executive action, investment, disinvestment, sale, purchase, loan, collateral vetting, with a Mr. (x,y,z,...) or anyone associated with them or Bain, or anyone who might have contact with them, or any officer, specifically Mr (x,y,z...) or any other employee or contractor who might do the same, or any executive, investor or owner of Bain or any of the 62? Bain funds, entities, offshore cut-out corporations etc).....

There was a segment on NPR's

rmrd0000 — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 14:58:15 +0000

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There was a segment on NPR's "Talk Of The Town" in January 2012 discussing the accuracy of fact-checking sites. A writer for the Weekly Standard accused political fact -checking sites of being biased. The basis of his charge was that 74 of 98 statements deemed to be lies by politicians were from Republicans. That skew was deemed sufficient to document bias. The suggestion was that only bias and not actual lies were the cause of the lying disparity.

The fact-checkers from The Washington Post's Fact Checker and Politifact were guests on the segment. The WP Fact checker was proud of the fact that the number of misstatements were equally divided between Republicans and Democrats at the end of his first year. Whether that equal distribution is statistically sound is open to question.

Both fact checkers noted the difficulty in calling something a lie.

I think that both you and tmccarthy have done a service that like with all reporting, we need to double check the conclusion. We have to fact-check the fact-checkers.

..or trulyworthlessblather or

NCD — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 06:58:14 +0000

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..or trulyworthlessblather or HubristicHooey.org?

They really need to change

tmccarthy0 — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 04:06:55 +0000

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They really need to change their name at this point, maybe it could be called loosegraspoffacts.com or whoneedsactualfacts.com. Thanks for the reminders!