Shame of the Fact-Checkers by The Editors on National Review Online

Shame of the Fact-Checkers by The Editors on National Review Online:

"Over the last few months, a number of journalists have suggested that John McCain is running a particularly dishonest and dishonorable campaign and that journalists should not allow the desire to be even-handed keep them from saying so.

That judgment, by our lights, tells us more about journalists’ political inclinations than about the campaigns. Neither the Republican nor the Democratic candidate has, until recently, been much less honest than the other, and neither has offended against the truth egregiously by historical standards. Nothing in this campaign, for example, has risen to the level of the Democrats’ concerted efforts during 2004 to convince young people that a reelected President Bush would reinstate the draft."