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Old 6th October 2009, 04:48 PM
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what a joke fact checking a skit, gee I wonder if they did that for Pres. Bush or Sarah Palin, nope.
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Why do you care, you don't watch CNN anyway. And agreed, fact-checking a comedy skit is just as stupid as getting all your news from the talking heads, almost as stupid as letting some talking head or blog form your views for you.
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Those liberals that run SNL, always lying about Obama.
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Hot Air » Blog Archive » Video: CNN helps Obama out by … fact-checking SNL’s skit

what a joke fact checking a skit, gee I wonder if they did that for Pres. Bush or Sarah Palin, nope.
And I want you to know, CNN fact-checked SNL skits for both former-President Bush (2nd) AND Sarah Palin.

And it's not really 'fact-checking' in the common sense of the phrase -- what CNN has done, has always done, is clarify -- in the case of Sarah Palin, as an example, that it was the SNL skit that said (whatever it was that was said at the time), not Sarah Palin -- and vice versa. And sometimes, it's very important to do that, and we should all be thankful to CNN for doing it -- as a bit of 'civic-duty' -- a form of Public Service.

Did you see "NinjaLooter's" comment? Irony is the OriginalHumor -- it was very funny.
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Oh I get the humor, and I am glad cnn checked both, the skit was aimed at blaming Obama for not
being more radical than he already has been. Otherwise they would have mentioned the ballooning debt, the continued loss of jobs.
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Oh I get the humor, and I am glad cnn checked both, the skit was aimed at blaming Obama for not
being more radical than he already has been. Otherwise they would have mentioned the ballooning debt, the continued loss of jobs.
Weird, isn't it, a news source fact checking something.

I know, you're surprised, BT...You're used to Fox and world net daily and newsmax, which don't fact check a thing.
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You're used to Fox and world net daily and newsmax, which don't fact check a thing.
I thought Fox had an active fact-checking department which assiduously checks for facts. Whenever it finds one, it removes it.
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I thought Fox had an active fact-checking department which assiduously checks for facts. Whenever it finds one, it removes it.

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