Loose Democracy
April 28, 2004

Truth squad

From the Center for American Progress:

Conservatives have spent the last 20 years distorting reality and getting away with it. That is about to change. The Center for American Progress has launched this new database project to chart the dishonesty and lies of conservatives – and compare them with the truth. In this database, each conservative quote will be matched against well-documented facts. And we need your help.

To use it, you pick from their menu of topics and of speakers. It then delivers the claim and a counter to it, along with a reference supporting the counter.

[Thanks to Salon for the pointer.]

Posted at 10:15 PM | Email this entry | Category: Miscellaneous
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Neat idea for playing to the base, but I'm not sure it matters overall.

Al Gore didn't claim he "invented" the Internet, that was a well-documented journalistic hit-job, but how many people still believe it?

Posted by Seth Finkelstein on April 30, 2004 01:19 AM | Permalink to Comment

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