Non Partisan Sanity checks

Not exactly a clone thread, Griff. An anti-clone, if you will.

Where do you go to get reliable information? Especially in this "silly season" as it's sometimes called. I certainly don't know everything (just ask Tink). But I like to make informed choices. I listen to what's being said, I consider the source, I compare it to what I already know. I take care with my thoughts, with my decisions and actions. Some have described me as a mite serious. I'm flattered.

As the election approaches, the volume of information will continue to increase, and will soon become too great to manage. I'll have to triage the incoming flow to avoid being overloaded. Here are some of the resources I use online to understand what's being said better. Just because it's being said louder or longer doesn't make it truer. I want to know, as well as I can, what the truth is.

www.snopes.com

www.factcheck.org

www.procon.org

www.polifact.com

Where do you turn to fact check something you learned about the campaign trail? How do you decide? I welcome your input.

I ask you guys.

This is a worthwhile topic, V.

I'd like to know if McCain really called his wife a trollop and a cunt - as per one of Radar's videos in the humor thread. I've googled it, but I don't find anything in the mainstream media. It seems to be all blogger talk.

I use the first two links to check nearly everything I have read or heard anywhere about the current political race in the last two weeks. I have not heard about the other two links but I will check them out. Thanks.

dar512 wrote:

I'd like to know if McCain really called his wife a trollop and a cunt - as per one of Radar's videos in the humor thread. I've googled it, but I don't find anything in the mainstream media. It seems to be all blogger talk.

It was initially alleged in a tell-all book by Cliff Schecter called The Real McCain, who says he was on the campaign trail with McCain at the time. McCain has been asked about it specifically, but so far has dodged the question by chiding the use of that kind of language in public.

Thanks, Clod.

Yeah, thanks, V.

For all things spun:
http://www.prwatch.org/

footfootfoot;485119 wrote:

For all things spun:
http://www.prwatch.org/

And here I thought I couldn't get more cynical.

link busted. pls repair. suggest you remove --> " <-- double quotes

Keep this close to the top, people need to use it more often. Thanks again to Mr V.