Showing posts with label Donna Brazile. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Donna Brazile. Show all posts

Thursday, January 21, 2010

Grading PolitiFact: Donna Brazile and Obama approval

Meh.  They're doing it all wrong.  Fact checking, that is.


The issue:




The fact checkers:

Catharine Richert:  writer, researcher
Greg Joyce:  editor


Analysis:

The headline and deck make this issue appear deceptively simple.  But as PolitiFact notes from time to time, many statements come with an implicit underlying argument.  But don't expect PolitiFact to find one of those this time out.