Fact Check Like the AP!

You, too can check facts just like the AP does. Now, since you can’t post an article from the AP or even, as far as I know, link to one without the AP wanting you to pay a bajillion dollars, you’ll have to look for yourself for what Ace at Ace of Spades HQ[*1] says about it:

Here’s what the AP’s “fact check” would have looked like in the summer of 1974, if they were this in-the-bag for Richard Nixon:

POLLL: 70% of the public believes the President participated in, or was aware of, or even ordered the cover up of the Watergate burglary.

FACT: President Nixon says “I am not a crook.” Next.

Uh, okay. Really jerked that one out of the park there, buddy.

It’s crazy, but there is an unexpressed assumption (redundant, I know) lurking under the surface of the AP’s “fact check.”

That assumption: Obama, being our Savior, is of course incapable of lying. Like Superman.*

They really seem to believe this. Or seem to believe, at least, that you should believe it. I don’t know how else to explain their apparent belief that Obama’s unsupported, and often utterly contradicted, claims are to be taken as wholly authoritative on all issues of contention.

* Can’t lie? Okay, he can lie, he just doesn’t. Or at least not very often.