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Hat tip to just about everyone — this is taking the innerwebs by storm, and rightly so.
This frankly sounds like a bit of shtick itself, but CNN last night “fact checked” the SNL skit that was a send-up of Obama. The segment included an interview with Bill Adair of the St. Petersburg Times’s PolitiFact. Said Adair,
I think “SNL” tended to kind of gloss over what is a–a fair amount of progress by this administration, about sending two additional brigades to Afghanistan. We rated that had a promise kept. On Iraq, “Saturday Night Live” said not done and, of course, that’s true, they’re not done. But they hadn’t promised to be done by now.
Okay, class, let’s review the number of times CNN and/or PolitiFact “fact checked” SNL skits about George W. Bush. Better still, do you remember the investigation into SNL’s not terribly flattering send-up of Sarah Palin by Tina Fey?
Taranto opines:
It’s as if CNN and the St. Petersburg Times are trying to reinforce the impression that they are in the tank for Obama. Even Democratic operative Paul Begala, who appears on a panel after the “fact check,” seems embarrassed by the exercise: “Come on. It’s comedy. . . . I thought it was amusing that we actually went to people to fact-check a comedy sketch. It’s comedy. It’s supposed to be silly and funny.”
There’s another way to look at it, though: If only we’d had CNN and PolitiFact back in the 1970s, we would have known that Gerald Ford wasn’t really as clumsy as Chevy Chase’s portrayal of him, that Dan Aykroyd and Steve Martin weren’t really two wild and crazy guys from Czechoslovakia, and that Jane Curtin is not an ignorant slut.
I’d like to see an argument about why any so-called “fact checking,” particularly from CNN, should ever be taken seriously again. Perhaps this is wishful thinking, but I think an era has just come to an end. The emperor has no clothes; this thing we call “fact checking” is just an attempt to have the last word on something, nothing more and nothing less. It has become unsustainable and unsupportable to argue otherwise.
Here’s what cried out for the fact checking:
And here is the checking. It’s a little embarrassing just to embed it.
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