Fact Check Time

(this post was written by Kyle on September 6, 2008, and it concerns 2008-election & convention & democrats & republicans)

From NY Times’s interactive graphic, The Rhetoric and the Reality: “A political convention is a license if not to lie then at least to tell the truth creatively. At their quadrennial gatherings over the last two weeks, Democrats and Republicans presented their records and their platforms — and those of their opponents — through typically partisan lenses that blurred or distorted the real picture.Both sides filled the airwaves with dubious claims, exaggerations and selective statistics. So much for the rhetoric. Now for a little reality.”