The University of Pennsylvania's Daily Pennsylvanian today profiles the Annenberg Public Policy Center's FactCheck.org.
In the interview, FactCheck's Brooks Jackson says the candidates are just getting warmed up in terms of misleading statements. "What you've seen so far is nothing," Jackson told DP senior writer Anne Dobson. After Super Tuesday on Feb. 5, the real mud will start flying.
"Candidates are not holding public policy seminars," said Jackson. "They are trying to persuade the voters by arguing as a lawyer would argue before a jury. They're giving you at best one side of the story and at worse a made up story."
And that's where the accuracy sleuths at FactCheck come in. Rapidly sifting through claims and counterclaims, the FactCheck team lays out "facts that sometimes some of the candidates find inconvenient," according to Jackson. "We probably get in the way of convincing everybody that they're absolutely right and their opponents are absolutely wrong."
Read the Daily Pennsylvanian article here: