Contributor
For a few years of my life, I worked part time as a fact-checker at a magazine. It's a tedious job, going through text and ferreting out mistakes, exaggerations, or outright falsehoods. Thankfully, when it comes to politics, we have the services of the good people at Factcheck.org, a non-partisan truth squad who make it their business to sound the alarm when politicians start spinning their improbable yarns. This week, they've dissected the speeches at the GOP convention, and their conclusions aren't pretty.
Among the worst of the untruths were those put forth by
Sarah Palin and Rudy Giuliani.John McCain took some liberties himself, mind you.
For comparison sake, you can see what they made of
Barack Obama's convention speech as well.
They conclude that while both McCain and Obama stretched the truth here and there, Palin and Giuliani were guilty of outright fibs.