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December 20, 2011
Fact Checking the AP Fact Checker On the Obama Administration's Cleansing Government Files of References to Radical Islam
Topics: Political News and commentariesYet another example proving you can't always count on the AP's fact checking to fact check what the Obama administration is up to ... in this case Pete Yost's "fact check" last week claiming that the GOP candidates are wrong in saying that the Obama administration is cleansing government files of references to radical Islam ... when in fact the AP has it wrong and the GOP candidates are spot-on:
... for example, Cliff May's NRO column "What's Islam got to do with it?" (May cites a report by the Westminster Institute's Katharine C. Gorka that notes: "Key national security documents have already excised all terminology that associates terrorism with Islam or Islamic concepts such as jihad.") See also "Obama administration pulls references to Islam from terror training materials, official says." (The story quotes purposefully ambiguous comments made by Deputy U.S. Attorney General James Cole at the George Washington University law school. My call yesterday to the Department of Justice for clarification went unreturned.)Who will fact check the fact checkers? It's the question raised by Andrew Ferguson's Weekly Standard cover story "Lies, damned lies, and 'fact checking.'" Yost's story seems to me to provide another illustration of the reason for the scare quotes Ferguson put around "fact checking."
Posted by Hyscience at December 20, 2011 8:35 AM
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