Posted on 09/12/2009 10:14:27 AM PDT by FrdmLvr
Please excuse the vanity. Could anyone verify if Fact Check is legitimate? It was recently discovered that some internet fact checking website was nothing but two liberally biased individuals putting their spin on the information they were checking on and posting it to their site. I thought it was Fact Check. If this is not correct, I apologize for giving the wrong impression, but it would also be an opportunity to set that straight in the responses. If anyone could help me out and provide a link I'd greatly appreciate it. Thanks.
You’re describing Snopes.
Snopes is pretty good for some things, but don’t take them as authoritative, by no means. Its just two people who can’t possible get to the bottom of everything in the world.
And, yes, they are Obamists, so if the question has political ramifications, you can expect the answer to pass through that filter.
Factcheck is a Soros/Obama site. I wouldn’t even bother except out of some morbid curiosity to see how they spin a question.
Factcheck is funded by the Annenburg Project, the same people that funded admitted domestic terrorist Bill Ayers and Barack Obama in Chicago. The “factchecking” site with only two people is Snopes, run by a man and his wife in a trailer in California, IIRC.
Okay, thanks, it’s greatly appreciated. I’m in the middle of an argument and the fact check issue came up.
thanks, vet!
Interesting. It seems to me that most of these type specialty fact-checking sites I’ve come across seem to have a left-leaning bias.
Because George Soros funds them.
Is ANYTHING you read in a newspaper a “Fact”?
IS ANYTHING you see on TeeVee a “Fact”?
I trust the Guinness Book of Records more than I trust the MSM or most of the web. And I don't drink.
I have tried all morning to get the website
(http://factcheck.org/ask-factcheck/ask-us-a-question/)
to accept the question below and the “Send” button does not work.
Question asked:
Where did the money go? Who received this money?
I read a blog today referring to H.B. 1388. When I tried to look up that house bill it did not seem to have anything to do with the accusations in the email blog of the government giving 20 million dollars to Hamas to relocate in the U.S.
The blog did reference the Presidential Document copied below from a U.S. government website:
http://usasearch.gov/search?input-form=simple-firstgov&v%3Aproject=firstgov-web&query=DOCID%3A+fr04fe09-106&x=34&y=11
[[Page 6115]]
Presidential Determination No. 2009-15 of January 27, 2009
Unexpected Urgent Refugee and Migration Needs Related To Gaza
Memorandum for the Secretary of State
By the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, including section 2(c)(1) of the Migration and Refugee Assistance Act of 1962 (the ``Act’’), as amended (22 U.S.C. 2601), I hereby determine, pursuant to section 2(c)(1) of the Act, that it is important to the national interest to furnish assistance under the Act in an amount not to exceed $20.3 million from the United States Emergency Refugee and Migration Assistance Fund for the purpose of meeting unexpected and urgent refugee and migration needs, including by contributions to international, governmental, and nongovernmental organizations and payment of administrative expenses of Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration of the Department of State, related to humanitarian needs of Palestinian refugees and conflict victims in Gaza.
You are authorized and directed to publish this memorandum in the Federal Register.
(Presidential Sig.)
THE WHITE HOUSE,
Washington, January 27, 2009
[FR Doc. E9-2488
Filed 2-3-09; 8:45 am]
Billing code 4710-10-P
Actually...THIS place is the only place I trust....As in this thread...you usually get the right answer within a few posts...I ahve to say...some of the smartest people in the world post or surf here...
As far as bias?...what bias..Bias against liberal trolls maybe...I’ve been in many disagreements with people here and never got the ZOT...Only trolls get the Zot...
Yes...Fact check is biased...but they are pretty subtle about it...they post just enough true stuff to provide cover....
truthorfiction.org is an excellent site, run by a former newsman, which goes out of its way to have the truth as its agenda. However, it only deals with internet and e-mail rumors, so it probably wouldn’t cover statements made by a politician in a speech, unless those statements became widely quoted in viral e-mails.
Bias? I only said that I don’t drink.
And FR IS a great place to hang out - and learn things.
Factcheck? Yeah, and Pravda means truth.
It's loaded with lies, falsifications and other intentionally created distortions.
....and all created by some of the nastiest operatives in the democrat party.
I better not describe all the weird images this conjures up....{:-)
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