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As we hurtle headlong into the Presidential Election Season (or six seasons or so), FactCheck.org<\/a> needs to be on your regular Internet reading list (visit the site, subscribe to the feed<\/a>, get e-mail updates<\/a>, whatever).  The Annenberg Public Policy Center<\/a> does a faboo non-partisan <\/em>job of calling the pols and would-be pols onto the carpet for factual distortions (or out-and-out lies) that “slip” into their speeches, debate appearances, and adverts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As we hurtle headlong into the Presidential Election Season (or six seasons or so), FactCheck.org needs to be on your regular Internet reading list (visit the site, subscribe to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-2008"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":46050,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/23\/as-we-hurtle-toward-the-election.html","url_meta":{"origin":11710,"position":0},"title":"As we hurtle toward the election","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 23-Oct-14 5:10pm","format":false,"excerpt":"My wife and I have voted. 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