Fact Checking Failure in Five Easy Steps

Published February 8, 2012 9:03pm ET



I‘ve already written at length on the major media’s “fact checkers” and, alas, it’s a never ending game of whack-a-mole to point out the absurdity of the arguments employed by these self-appointed guardians of veracity.

And so the Washington Post fact checker Glenn Kessler emerges from the mire of truthiness to once again to kick dirt in the face of the obvious with his post on the Center for Union Facts’s Super Bowl ad. If you didn’t already see the ad, you can watch it here, but the basic gist of it is this claim: “Only ten percent of people in unions today actually voted to join the union.”

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