Meetthefacts Meets Meet the Press (Updated) 0

I heard about Meet the Facts dot com on this weekend’s On the Media.

Meet the Facts is an independent volunteer fact-checking project focusing on Meet the Press; it was started by two college students because David Gregory, the host of Meet the Press, refuses to fact-check his guests, claiming that members of the public can do their own fact-checking.

In addition to their fact-checking, Meet the Facts states how much time is required to fact-check each item to illustrate that, in fact (to coin a phrase), members of the public do not have the time to fact-check each item while also going to work, taking the kids to Little League, going to the store, and mowing the damned lawn for Heaven’s sake; they believe, indeed, that fact-checking is part of what conscientious journalists do.

I infer that they do not consider David Gregory to be a conscientious journalist, but that’s just me. Me, I haven’t watched a Sunday talker for 40 years and don’t intend to start now. I got better ways to waste my Sundays.

Here is their report on Mike Murphy’s claims on Sunday’s Meet the Press that (1) there is an illegal immigrant crime wave in Arizona and (2) the Obama administration has done nothing about it.

I’ll summarize the report for you:

Crap.

Follow the link above for the full analysis.

Lies work because persons repeat them without calling them out.

Addendum:

Meetthefacts considers criticisms of its conclusion in the case cited above.