Yesterday, at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. the heads of all of the major media “fact checking” organizations convened for a panel discussion. On the panel were PolitiFact editor Bill Adair, Washington Post fact checker Glenn Kessler, the Associated Press’s Jim Drinkard, and it was moderated by Brooks Jackson of FactCheck.org. The title of the panel was, “Deception Alert: Fact Checkers Forecast Deceptions in 2012 Presidential Debates.” Aside from the rather bizarre notion of fact checking events that have yet to take place, you can probably gather from the title of the panel that the discussion leaned toward self-congratulatory, and away from measured and reflective. Here’s a sample of the kind of brazen deception we can expect in the debates, courtesy of FactCheck.org’s Jackson*:
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