The Kind-Hearted Smart Aleck

As I've said before, while I love fact-checking to the point where some may call me obsessive about it, even I will admit that sometimes fact-checkers go too far. I brought this up a couple weeks ago when Republican New Jersey Governor was fact-checked for saying his favorite cartoon at four years of age was Scooby-Doo . Since that cartoon wasn't around when he was four, the fact-checker made it known to the world that this couldn't be true. That resulted in a facepalm on my part. I can't even remember what my favorite shows were when I was ten years old, let alone four. Give the guy a break. It's not like he was trying to woo the vote of a 4-year old kid, or if he runs for the presidency, the undecideds will potentially break the other way due to Scoobygate. That brings me to another such scenario, and actually, this one may be worse than Scoobygate, if you can believe that. At least with Scoobygate, the fact-checker contended that Christie could get a "pass...