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AP Editor: Michele Bachmann Tells So Many Lies the AP Has To Impose an Upper “Quota” On Fact-Checking Her



Have you ever thought to yourself, “My God, the press is just constantly ripping into Michele Bachmann. She couldn’t possibly be telling as many lies as these fact-checkers are reporting. You know, I bet she’s actually pretty normal in real life.”

No? Yeah, neither have we. And we would be correct, because, actually, it turns out the fact-checkers have been going easy on Michele all these years.

During a panel discussion about fact-checking at the National Press Club on Wednesday, Jim Drinkard, the Associated Press (AP) editor who oversees the wire service’s fact-checking work, said that the AP actually had to limit the number of lies they reported during the Republican debates:

We had to have a self-imposed Michele Bachmann quota in some of those debates.


More:

http://www.thedailydolt.com/2012/09/27/ap-editor-we-had-to-impose-an-upper-quota-on-fact-checking-bachmann-during-republican-debates/