Worst job in the fact-checker career: Fact-checking Michele Bachmann

[ck4829]

Michele Bachmann’s statements during the Republican primary debates were so error-strewn that the Associated Press implemented a “quota” on how many claims they would fact-check.

AP editor Jim Drinkard, who oversees the fact-checking, said in a panel yesterday: “We had to have a self-imposed Michele Bachmann quota in some of those debates.”

From the Washington Post:

“After the session, Drinkard said that there wasn’t an actual numerical quota on Bachmann at the AP. It’s just that if the AP had gone back and vetted all her claims that looked dicey, the result would ‘overload’ the debate story. ‘Often she was just more prone to statements that just didn’t add up,’ said Drinkard.”

One more infamous instance of those statements was when Bachmann said that the HPV vaccine could have “very dangerous side effects,” a claim that was quickly refuted by the American Academy of Pediatrics, the CDC, and basically everyone else.

http://www.salon.com/2012/09/27/ap_had_a_bachmann_fact_check_quota/

[hifiguy]

1. Fact-checking Batshit is like trying to empty Lake Superior

with a pail and shovel.

[TrogL]

4. I tried that many years ago

After a couple of hours my mommy told me we had to go home.

[Enrique]

2. "it would overload the debate story"

that is known as Bachmann Crazy Overload.

[ck4829]

3. Or the Gish Gallop

Something creationists use and I've only seen righties using it as well, where they just throw out bull at lightning fast speed.

[VWolf]

8. You ain't seen nothin' yet!

[HopeHoops]

5. Why is that so hard? Just mark "WRONG" next to every sentence.

[ck4829]

6. It would be easier if they only made a report on the factual things she said

[HopeHoops]

9. Were there any?

[Flashmann]

7. There is a very simple method

That also applies to rmoney/lyan,as well as several other RWers...As they utter a string of words,are their lips moving?......If yes,then lying can be presumed..

[janlyn]

10. Not the worst job

If anything you would never be without work!!