Checking Obama's facts on the fact checkers

Maggie Thurber has an excellent response to the Toledo Blade interview with Barack Obama, who complains that the blogosphere has no fact checkers like newspapers. (You watch--this is going to be the basis for his regulators coming down hard on bloggers and anyone who isn't with the Obamedia.) Ha! says Maggie--we ARE the fact checkers:

"It was the blogosphere that fact-checked and exposed the faked memos about George W. Bush's National Guard service which was reported by Dan Rather and later became known as Rathergate.

It's been bloggers and Glenn Beck who've exposed the extreme positions of the various czars appointed by Obama. And there are terrific websites that focus on investigative reporting. One of them, Texas Watchdog, not only 'watches' government, but helps train bloggers and reporters so they can learn how to "uncover waste, fraud and corruption in state and local governments."

One reason many newspapers are seeing a decline in circulation and many television news networks see their numbers falling is because of this very 'fact.' They've stopped 'reporting' and started spending too much time 'putting stories in context' for us - telling us what we should think about events rather than reporting the facts so we can decide on our own. As a result, people have turned to other outlets, like blogs, for additional information so they can make an informed decision and not rely upon some talking head reading from a teleprompter." Stop by and read her whole article