Friday Fact Check: Infomercial Edition

We’re down to the last week of campaigning and things have been getting intense. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve likely seen all kinds of TV appearances and all kinds of claims from both the Obama camp and the McCain camp as both head into the final sprint of the race. So how [...]

Your new BFF in Nigeria AND info on the candidates!

  
We’ve all gotten the emails that Mr. Ngoutu in Nigeria has our winnings from the lottery and just needs our bank account number to deposit the cash.  We’ve also all gotten the emails that Barack Obama used the Koran to be sworn into the Senate instead of a bible, or that Sarah Palin had books [...]

Friday Fact Check

Gals, it’s been a while since we’ve taken you on our Internet Tour of Truth. But now that CJP Summer School is in full swing, there’s no time like the present to see which fibs, half-truths and outright lies have taken root in our brains while we worked on our tan. [...]

Fact Check Friday

Welcome to Fact Check Friday, our weekly trip around the Internet’s very best truth sleuth sites. We were hoping that the presence of Holy Week on the calendar would make this week a little less lousy with lies, but no such luck. We’ve got fibs, falsehoods and factually challenged statements [...]

Fact Check Friday

TGIFCF- Thank God It’s Fact Check Friday- the day we take a tour of the three best sites on the Internet that spend all day every day trafficking in dirty, filthy lies. The past week has ushered in an official nominee on the Republican side and an official Hot Mess on [...]

Fact-Check Friday

Do you know where the phrase “the truth hurts” came from? We don’t either, but it must have come from an experience similar to reading through the websites that fact-check the statements of candidates, like the Tour of Truth we take every week. Today brings half-truths, almost-truths and outright lies. [...]

Friday Fact-Check- Special “I Cannot Tell a Lie” Edition

What better day for our weekly Tour of Truth through the Internet than on the day we celebrate the birthday of George “Cherry Tree” Washington?
Our first president could not tell a lie, but guess who can? Presidential campaigns. Sometimes the lies are accidental misstatements; sometimes they’re big, fat, [...]

Fact-Check Friday: McCain, the Dems and Huck’s Squirrel Soup

Welcome back to Fact-Check Friday, our weekly trip around the Internet’s best fact-checking sites designed to sort fact from fiction. Now onto our Tour of Truth!
Here are the three fibs we’ve heard going around right now that we’ve heard the most:

John McCain wants to leave troops in Iraq for [...]