Second, I don’t care about Ron Fournier. I care about the people at FactCheck.

Third, and most important, there’s only so much smoke you can lay in order to try to get people to ignore what they actually do and actually write.

If you want to convince me that FactCheck is so fair, go back and show me Obama’s great support for Second Amendment rights. Until then, you can blow smoke all day long, and it doesn’t change a thing,

Similarly, you can obfuscate what the Obamafascists in Missouri threatened all you want, but you can’t change it. Don’t go running to a pet spin doctor — deal with the facts on the ground. Deal with what they *actually* said and *actually* threatened.

Until then, playing “ignore the man behind the curtain” is just so much hogwash.

http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/04/nonpartisan-factcheckorg-not-q.php

The sole trustee and director of the Annenberg Foundation (which funds factcheck) is Leonore Annenberg. She has never given a dime to a Dem. Only Repubs. I think it is time for you to give her a call and tell her she is funding a front for *Obamafascists* So, infact, the Annenberg Foundation *is* the Annenbergs.

Also, FWIW, Ron Fournier is the AP’s Washington Bureau chief is a McCain supporter and interviewed for a job with him not too long ago, so no, the Associated press is not left, by default, as you state.

Notice that I am not calling factcheck a right wing front because they call out Dems on issues. I’m calling the non-partisan. You, however, call them fascists if there is one world speaking ill of your candidate. It is a predictable pattern with Repubs, one bad word…liberal…one judicial decision not to your liking…*judicial activism*…*legislating from the bench* Face it, factcheck takes shots at both sides.

Factcheck is run by the Annenburg Public Policy Center at U Penn. Yeah, Eric, that hotbed of Conservativsm, U Penn. You know, the Annenburg Public Policy Center that Bill Moyers uses so much.

The Director, Brooks Jackson, is an AP/CNN person. The staff holds such right-wing positions as Production Assistant for Bill Moyers and Director of Communications for the AFL-CIO, and writer for the Washington Informer.

What a bunch of right wingers!

But most important, Eric, is that you are still playing “ignore that person behind the curtain.” Why are you so insistent that it is wrong to take the Obamafascists at their word?

Yes, what Sarah Palin calls *the filter*

The thing that demonstrates the bias is that you want people to ignore what the Obama’s thugs actually threatened and instead go to a pasteurized and digested account of it. The threats stand for themselves. Apologists trying to get people to ignore them and instead go to a predigested account simply shows how dangerous those threats really were when evaluated on the basis of the threats themselves.

Sure if you pretend the things that scare people don’t exist, then he’s not so scary. But when you do that, your claims to being nonpartisan become just another pretense.

Factcheck *is* nonpartisan, it doesn’t just claim to be. The fact that you *don’t* like what it says doesn’t give your references any authority (See…two can play that game)

Enjoy the VP debate…should be a real hoot.