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Tea Partier: "Fact-checkers can't be trusted, but Fox News and Rush Limbaugh can!"

Here's the other recent back-and-forth I engaged myself in via Twitter. After sharing a link from the reputable fact-checking site FactCheck.org regarding Ted Cruz's multiple lies during his 21-hour talk-a-thon (lie-a-thon more like), a woman, who wrote on her profile that she "fights against stupidity," said fact-checkers can't be trusted. After looking through her profile, it seems that she trusts Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, and the like, and this made me laugh quite a bit.

Fact-checkers are paid to research the validity of statements, chain emails, etc. Fox News is there to provide its viewers with right-leaning infotainment. Rush Limbaugh is there to spout opinions which anger many, get people talking, and get die-hard conservatives pumped.

So, who am I to trust more? People whom get paid to actually research the validity of statements or people whom get paid more for entertainment purposes than accuracy?

If this woman truly wants to fight against stupidity, I'd think she'd rather fight against biased opinions treated as fact like those on Fox News and talk radio than fact-checkers whom research the validity of those very opinions.

http://jacksonville.com/news/metro/2012-09-28/story/fact-check-so-whos-checking-fact-finders-we-are
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