Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Just the Facts Please

It is time that those who continue to spout off lies get a dose of the truth. In the last few months, the tone of discourse in the nation has been shockingly uninformed. Not what you would expect from someone who is apathetic, but someone who listens but does not take the futher leap and determine if what they have heard is in fact the truth.

Take the absurd belief that Barack Obama is not a citizen. Not one court in the land where the challenge has been made has dignified the claim with a hearing of the facts. Since August 2008 an independent website FactCheck.org run by the Annenberg Project and University of Pennsylvania have had images of the birth certificate on the web for all to see.

This group has no interest one way or the other in our political system other than demonstrating the legitimacy or lack thereof of claims made by politicians, interest groups or other individuals as part of our nation's political discourse.

Check out the site, and see who is exaggerating the truth and who is not. They can show you thier analysis, and they annotate it so that you can check the data for yourself and see if you arrive at the same conclusion.

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