PolitiFact Check

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The Austin American Statesman has a new "fact checking" section of their web site. Well how about that! The mainstream media actually doing their work!
:wow:
PolitiFact -politifact.com/texas Well if you believe most of it. Some things are of course really easy to fact check - some require some real digging.

The Gubernatorial debate fact checks:

PolitiFact
KBH about Perry
"We definitely lost way more jobs in Texas this year than we gained — we lost 300,000 jobs in Texas alone this year."
True
She wants guv to join the jobless

PolitiFact
Rick Perry about his record
Says approximately 70 percent of jobs created in the United States in November 2007-2008 were in Texas.
False
Only true by overlooking most of United States

Here's one where PoltiFact Check needed more of a sense of humor or a better rating system. Maybe there should be a "pun intended" rating. This one doesn't merit a "pants on fire". That just makes their whole fact checking and rating system a farce. They acknowledge in the embedded page link that "Keeping our own tongues firmly in cheek, we checked into the claim." Most people are going to see the short summary and rating on the main page, than follow the link to the detail.

PolitiFact
Hector Uribe
Says Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson threatened to shoot him.
Pants on Fire!
Wudda cudda, in a movie only

Charles Kuffner gets it:

Off the Kuff blog 1/11/2010
Hector Uribe may be my favorite candidate for this cycle

Anyone who can send out a press release like this is someone who can make the election season just a little more enjoyable.

In Stunning Move, Land Commissioner Candidate Hector Uribe Already up on Statewide TV

(Austin) Democratic candidate for Texas Land Commissioner Hector Uribe announced today that he’s already on TV state-wide, when the USA cable network aired “No Country For Old Men” on January 6, and twice during their programming yesterday. Uribe had a speaking role in the film, which garnered four Academy Awards…for other actors. Uribe, for his part, managed to become one of only a few actors in the film to achieve the vaulted status of not being violently murdered by the end of it.

This surprise move makes Uribe the first candidate for Land Commissioner to be up on TV state-wide this election season.

(snip)
Meanwhile, Uribe’s Republican opponent threatened to shoot him last week. Uribe said he isn’t at all disturbed by the empty threat, explaining that if he can survive a Coen Brothers script, he can survive Jerry Patterson.

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Sonia

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