Attacks, praise stretch truth at GOP convention.....

[shey1218]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080904/ap_on_el_pr/cvn_fact_check

[EmperorHasNoClothes]

1. Holy crap, and it's an AP article!

We'll see how long it takes AP to retract it...

[quiet.american]

2. This needs to be at the top of the greatest. Excellent on lies vs. the FACTS.

Loved this one:

FORMER ARKANSAS GOV. MIKE HUCKABEE: Palin "got more votes running for mayor of Wasilla, Alaska than Joe Biden got running for president of the United States."

THE FACTS: A whopper. Palin got 616 votes in the 1996 mayor's election, and got 909 in her 1999 re-election race, for a total of 1,525. Biden dropped out of the race after the Iowa caucuses, but he still got 76,165 votes in 23 states and the District of Columbia where he was on the ballot during the 2008 presidential primaries.

[Kittycat]

3. MUST READ...

OP, copy/paste some of the text out of there. People need to pay attention to this.

[lady lib]

4. I just e-mailed that article all over the country.

Thanks for posting!

Oh, and the AP stretches the truth when they reduce LYING to merely stretching the truth.

[Vanje]

5. I learned that soldiers go off to war to bring home desks

for school children.

I did not know that before tonight!