This issue came up recently when our friend Saty posted some links to Politifact.com that apparently showed some of Glenn Beck's many purported lies so I asked Beth about this on the phone last night what is this website exactly? She said they listed the same type material about Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow and since they're both liberal (or in Olbermann's case keeping it psycho) I guess many people look up to this site to tell them the truth but something's been nagging at me. I believe everyone has a bias, if you're human you have a bias, your bias is what makes you human or to paraphrase Rene Descartes I am biased therefore I am but putting all this aside there was something else I couldn't quite put my finger on right away and you may as well tie in the Terri Schiavo subject since that too was in the blog where this supposedly objective political fact-checking group came up. I now know what is bothering me and I'm surprised Saty with her mystical inclinations didn't pick up on it and I'll get to it in a minute but first let me say it really applies to any subject under the sun. OK go pick a topic but specifically as it relates here it had to do with Glenn Beck being a veritable geyser of misinformation or something.
WHO HAS THE FINAL SAY??? (on anything for that matter?) or to put it another way WHO CHECKS THE FACT-CHECKERS???
It's like in baseball it's universally agreed upon that the ump has the final say but it's also universally acknowledged that they may be wrong from time to time. So can we have a website that checks up on Politifact.org? and hey while we're at it maybe we can have a site to check that site out too point being HOW do we arrive at ultimate knowledge of anything? Saty is not the source of ultimate knowledge or facts though she definitely has her opinions. You'd think she was Terri's friend helping her with her bulimia (quick fact-check please and you may as well fact-check the fact-check and fact-check that too). 2+2 is an objective fact, so is the fact that the moon revolves around the Earth but Glenn Beck being a conduit of misinformation, not so objective and hell we may as well be fair and apply this to Olbermann and Maddow too. To use another analogy the judges on American Idol may have the final word but many many times I have disagreed with their judging especially this last season so what am I saying here? It's like with salt causing high-blood pressure and I'm not disputing that it does but nobody can explain to me how sodium causes high-blood pressure and it'd be interesting since the G-spot no longer exists that who's to say in a few years' time Science may do a reverse course on salt too?
The only thing I know for sure is that I have to go to work tomorrow, that I have a cat and I'm sitting in front of a computer right now. Oh there's a few other things to be sure but as for Politifact.org I say it's still a theory. On a sidenote I've posted misinformation on my own blog once in a very great while though not on purpose of course. I once referred to Emanuel Swedenborg as a Swiss theologian rather than a Swedish preacher until someone corrected me. Ain't no big thang so I edited it to make it as factually accurate as possible, happens. Since I just had to check the man's name right now will he be trending soon? Dunno man like Beth says Obama lies all the time. Am I rambling?......
WHO HAS THE FINAL SAY??? (on anything for that matter?) or to put it another way WHO CHECKS THE FACT-CHECKERS???
It's like in baseball it's universally agreed upon that the ump has the final say but it's also universally acknowledged that they may be wrong from time to time. So can we have a website that checks up on Politifact.org? and hey while we're at it maybe we can have a site to check that site out too point being HOW do we arrive at ultimate knowledge of anything? Saty is not the source of ultimate knowledge or facts though she definitely has her opinions. You'd think she was Terri's friend helping her with her bulimia (quick fact-check please and you may as well fact-check the fact-check and fact-check that too). 2+2 is an objective fact, so is the fact that the moon revolves around the Earth but Glenn Beck being a conduit of misinformation, not so objective and hell we may as well be fair and apply this to Olbermann and Maddow too. To use another analogy the judges on American Idol may have the final word but many many times I have disagreed with their judging especially this last season so what am I saying here? It's like with salt causing high-blood pressure and I'm not disputing that it does but nobody can explain to me how sodium causes high-blood pressure and it'd be interesting since the G-spot no longer exists that who's to say in a few years' time Science may do a reverse course on salt too?
The only thing I know for sure is that I have to go to work tomorrow, that I have a cat and I'm sitting in front of a computer right now. Oh there's a few other things to be sure but as for Politifact.org I say it's still a theory. On a sidenote I've posted misinformation on my own blog once in a very great while though not on purpose of course. I once referred to Emanuel Swedenborg as a Swiss theologian rather than a Swedish preacher until someone corrected me. Ain't no big thang so I edited it to make it as factually accurate as possible, happens. Since I just had to check the man's name right now will he be trending soon? Dunno man like Beth says Obama lies all the time. Am I rambling?......