Following Marco Rubio’s announcement that he’s running for president, the Associated Press decided to “fact check” some of the candidate’s rhetoric. If you follow the news, you’re probably aware that “fact checking” is more often than not a lame attempt to cloak partisan opinion behind a veil of irrelevant contextual details. On Thursday, the AP really outdid itself in terms of pure hackish nonsense.

Here is the first claim the that AP’s Steve Peoples decided to “fact check”:

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