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Allow me to recommend to you FactCheck.org<\/a>, a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center, of U. Penn. Factcheck.org is busy checking into the facts behind campaign commercials from all camps, and pointing up where they — and the responses to them from the opposing campaigns — come up short. Excellent stuff, reminiscent of Spinsanity.org<\/a>, which speaks to the broader political “dialog.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Allow me to recommend to you FactCheck.org, a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center, of U. Penn. Factcheck.org is busy checking into the facts behind campaign commercials from all…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-law"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11710,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/07\/10\/something_for_your_readin.html","url_meta":{"origin":5433,"position":0},"title":"Something for your reading list for the next 16 months","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 10-Jul-07 8:24am","format":false,"excerpt":"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...","rel":"","context":"In "Elections 2008"","block_context":{"text":"Elections 2008","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law\/elections-2008"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/voting-butterfly.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":5279,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/04\/13\/fact_check.html","url_meta":{"origin":5433,"position":1},"title":"Fact Check","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 13-Apr-04 2:11pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I once again heartily endorse FactCheck.org, which fact-checks campaign commercials and initiatives from both the Dems and GOP, neither of which comes out looking very good. 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