Powerline analyzes the AP’s fact checking of Sara Palin’s book.
It’s funny how the press fact-checks some things but not others. Here is just one of thousands of examples one could cite: John Kerry, arguing for the cap-and-tax bill that he co-sponsored with Barbara Boxer (these are two of the least intelligent legislators of modern times, by the way), claimed that “over the last eight years, emissions in the United States of America in greenhouse gases went up four times faster than in the 1990s.” This is a typical example of a “fact” that John Kerry just made up. In fact, carbon emissions rose much faster in the 1990s than over the last eight years:
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Do you suppose the Associated Press will assign eleven reporters to “fact-check” John Kerry? No, I don’t think so, either.
