Instant Fact Checking: Just One More Reason to Love the Internet

Newsweek said, uh, this week, that “our comedy has veered too close to our news.” For another example, take today’s Washington Post:

HERSHEY, Pa. — Sen. John McCain made a direct appeal to baseball lovers Tuesday morning while mocking his rival’s decision to buy 30 minutes of television time Wednesday night for an address to the nation.

“No one will delay the World Series with an infomercial when I’m President,” he said to the approval of a crowd of thousands at a stadium here

Which is followed by this paragraph:

McCain’s own convention speech this summer forced a change in the start time of the NFL’s season opener, which started an hour-and-a-half earlier to accommodate McCain’s speech.

Fact checking is a beautiful thing.

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