The Associated Press came out with a lengthy and extremely tendentious “fact check” regarding the selection of Paul Ryan as Mitt Romney’s vice presidential running mate. I am on record as deploring the media fact checking phenomenon in pretty strong and detailed terms. And this fact check was so bad it made even my jaded toes curl.

Over at National Review, Ramesh Ponnuru beat me to the punch in critiquing the piece. Not surprisingly, he concludes it’s a lot of exceedingly biased opinion masquerading as empiricism:

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