Reply #8: Nah, I don't see it. They debunk too many Repub lies. [View All]

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Back in 2000 they had the rumor about Gore claiming he invented the Internet as true. I wrote to them explaining what he really said, how the story got spread to the media, etc, and gave them a link. They wrote back and said they were checking out. A little while later they had changed their rating to False.

They try hard, but they do this as a hobby, and as I understand it, they are actually just a couple who do the research and the writing themselves. I'm sure they rely on readers giving them tips, but they do a lot of research on their own, and do an incredible job of tracking things down. I'm sure they are wrong sometimes, and I'm sure that on occassion they pick up the bias of tipsters, but they're pretty honest in their intentions.

As for the criticism over the word "despise," I hear you, though it is too mild a word for what I feel. I read it as just a weakness in their writing skills. A lot of their writings seem very colloquial, and not always linguistically accurate. But I don't see a bias in their research.