Fact Check This, Associated Press!

The American Thinker ^ | November 18, 2009 | Jack Cashill

[Scanian]

I think Obama's in a league with TR," observes historian and presidential biographer Douglas Brinkley. "He created his political reputation through the written word."

To be sure, no one has ever accused Sarah Palin, a defeated vice presidential candidate, of creating her reputation thusly. One has to wonder, then, why her book, Going Rogue, would merit a fact check by no fewer than eleven Associated Press reporters when neither the AP nor any other mainstream outlet has spent a moment vetting the books of the "author in chief," as President Barack Obama was anointed in a November GQ article, "Barack Obama's Work in Progress," by Tom Draper.

[chopperman]

How many bodies did AP use to fact check ‘Inconvenient Truth’?

[firebrand]

If that paid-by-the-hour lawyer was Robert Barnett, Obama was hardly slumming.

[firebrand]

Douglas Brinkley, who thinks book-review sections should be subsidized.

[Fetid Facts]

"How many bodies did AP use to fact check ‘Inconvenient Truth’?"

Their hands were tied--it is considered blasphemy within the Green Cult to fact check religious doctrine issued from the Goracle.

[muawiyah]

Whatever AP’s fact-checkers came up with had to be passed by their libel lawyers (for rewrite).

[coconutt2000]

What does Theodore Roosevelt have to do with this? ;-)

[1raider1]

It says: “He created his political reputation through the written word”. Maybe that was something that was said about T. Roosevelt.

[dorothy]

TR authored some 35+ books.

[Eagle Eye]

Showing this level of scrutiny to her book while ignoring other books or pending legislation tells a lot about the MSM’s priorities.

Shows how frightened they are.

[Freddd]

Imagine 11 looking into the birth certificate controversy...