This news is actually good. PolitiFact was built to allow the MSM to present their own left-wing opinions as objective truth, so by teaming up with the notoriously left-leaning welfare queens at NPR, it only helps to further expose this biased “fact-checker” for what it really is.
Today from PolitiFact:
To help you sort out the truth in the avalanche of claims from the 2012 campaign, PolitiFact and NPR are partnering for Message Machine, a year-long venture to highlight the candidates’ exaggerations and falsehoods.Reporters from PolitiFact and our nine state sites will be checking claims that candidates and political groups make in TV and radio ads, Facebook messages, tweets and robocalls. We’ll focus largely on the presidential campaign, but we’ll also examine claims from races for governor and the U.S. House and Senate.
We’ll publish our Truth-O-Meter articles on PolitiFact and NPR.org, and we’ll keep an archive of them on our NPR/PolitiFact Message Machine page. NPR will air segments about our fact-checking on Morning Edition, All Things Considered and other shows.
Our first batch of Message Machine items includes a mix of TV commercials, online videos and Web ads.
PolitiFact would never dream of teaming with Human Events or Townhall, two respected right-of-center outlets. No, for 2012, it wants to stick its fingers in the eyes of the right as they join in partnership with an outlet we both distrust and dislike.
When it comes to the MSM, arrogance always trumps credibility. Besides, were PolitiFact to actually team up with the right it might end up living up to its name, and then what would Obama do?
My guess is that PolitiFact also did this in order to enjoy a kind of sinister pleasure in knowing that when some left-wing partisan disguised as a news anchor quotes a distorted “fact” created by both PolitiFact and NPR, the blood pressure will rise in those of us who believe in truth.
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