The Kind-Hearted Smart Aleck

I'm all about fact-checking. I have angered many people in the past when they've laid down a claim I knew to be false, fact-checked said claim, and proved to their dismay that they were wrong. Yet even I will say sometimes, not often, but sometimes we fact-check just a little too much. Now, I have to imagine like just about everyone else, professional fact-checkers can often times get bored at work. Perhaps it's a non-election year and most politicians seem to be enjoying a vacation of sorts (what else is new, right?), and there really isn't a great deal of interesting quotes or claims to fact-check, so they have to lower their standards a bit and fact-check what really doesn't need to be fact-checked. The latest example of this is courtesy of Politifact , who fact-checked Republican New Jersey Governor Chris Christie on his claim that Scooby-Doo was his favorite show when he was 4-years old. Yes, Politifact actually fact-checked this. In the site's rulin...