You sir are a gentlemen. I appreciate the kind response. You’d be surprised how many times people have responded with sarcasm and insults when I post something that contradicts what they’ve posted. I was once called “an insidious disease” for simply posting some fact checking about McCain (and I’m a McCain supporter) from the Factcheck.org… website.

Your links and rebuttals are quite thorough as well as insightful. I’ll definitely pay closer attention when you post responses, although I’d have to take a day off work just to get through all of the information you post!

I’m a kidder!

Kind regards

Ron

Ron;
After reading your post and a having a “Now wait a damn minute, I know what I saw.” moment, I went back to double-double-check and it appears you are correct. However, I would recommend factcheck.dot remove “Annenberg” from their banner or putting a disclaimer somewhere on the webpage that factcheck.org… is in no way affiliated with the Chicago Annenberg Connection so that others don’t jump to the same conclusion of potential bias.

Fit Fit;
Factcheck.com… did indeed once lead to a Soros site. I know because I was one of many that ended up there following the 2004 VP debate. I hadn’t gone back there since and now when you go there it takes you to a search engine. So I thought maybe my memory was faulty and changed “.com” to “.org”. Knowing of the Soros-Obama-CAC connection, and seeing Annenberg right there in the banner, I had naturally assumed it was the Soros site. My thanks to Ron for straightening this out and apologies to factcheck.org… for impuning their honor.

As I mentioned, I too had gone there, as can be seen by these links.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/nation/president/2004-10-06-cheney-error_x.htm

http://www.indcjournal.com/archives/001086.php

http://tedshelton.blogspot.com/2004/10/factcheckcom-george-soros.html

http://www.americanthinker.com/2004/10/soros_plays_games_with_the_fac.html

Hence the confusion. It’s not surprising that socialist like George Soros would take advantage of and mislead the public. Socialists enjoy screwing with people’s minds. I would not be surprised if the name “Annenberg” and acronym “CAC” for the Chicago Annenberg Challenge were originally selected to mislead. The Annenberg School For Communication at the University of Pennsylvania was founded in 1959, long before the CAC of Ayers and Obama.

http://www.asc.upenn.edu/about/

To note; There are a several organizations with “CAC” acronyms that pop up when you do a search with the “University of Pennsylvania” and “CAC” so this can add to the confusion:

The Corporate Advisory Council (CAC) which meets at Bloomburg University of Pennsylvania

The Child Advocacy Center of Montgomery County (CAC), to be called Mission Kids; http://lsr.nellco.org/upenn/wps/papers/94/

The clean Air Counsel; http://www.cleanair.org/InsideCAC/board.html

The Corporate Advisory Council (CAC); http://iit.bloomu.edu/iit/cac.cfm

The Center for Advanced Communication; http://www.villanova.edu/engineering/centers/cac/faculty/professors.htm

Etceteras.

True.

Sorry, that’s all I got.

Ron

I trust in their efforts to be non-partisan, but I think anyone could eventually find fault with some of their conclusions from time to time.

(FactCheck.org…, which is nonpartisan, also receives funding from the Annenberg Foundation. But we are in no way connected to the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, which finished its work long before we came into being in late 2003.)

I’m not suggesting that Factcheck.org… are perfect but they routinely fact check the left. And besides, numerous authors on this very website reference them. Curt and Wordsmith have both sited Factcheck so I doubt they would use them if they weren’t reliable.

Ron

I did find it surprising that factchack pointed out some Obama-Biden mis-statements. I wonder if that was only concerning items someone had already raised the BS flag on to make them appear legit? After all, it was CNN that suggested viewers go there to review what was true and false following the Biden vs Palin debate.

And every election going back to Carter vs Reagan the polls have shown the Democrats in the lead. No they are in no way dependable. In November.

Oh speaking of the polls, Why would Obama be dropping…? Hmm, let’s see… Do ya’ think maybe it has something to do with the end of voter registration and Acorn reps have pulled out and stopped hovering over the registration offices and DMV’s like buzzards? Rest assured of course they’ll be right back outside the polling stations forcing Obama phamplets upon everyone that gets with-in 200 yards.

BTW, my mommy still loves the Wordsmith Sunday Funnies. I really hear it when I don’t send on the direct link. She’s 83, and doesn’t navigate as easily as regular cyber users. I’m just happy she’s an 83 year old, that’s tackling the use of a computer! But a Sunday without Wordsmith is like a Sunday without the NYTs crossword puzzle to a puzzle junkie.

BTW, I echo Curt on your response to that site pest history-challenged bigot, Kool Aid on another thread.

snap, run, SCORE!

How’s the trending there Sky?

You like to tout the polls so much then show us the pattern over the last 7 to 10 days.

I can tell you that Obama has nowhere to go but down and the trending indicates that is precisely where he is headed.

Because I know that you don’t have 1) the stones to post a response 2) the intelligence to do the research needed to get the answer and 3) the courage to do the research that will prove your own contention wrong I’ll post a little tidbit of why your side needs to be very worried at the moment.

You’re crowing about the polls when the following is true:

Gallup has it narrowing from double digits down to seven.

Zogby has it narrowing from six to four.

Furthermore Sky, where is Obie campaigning right now?

That’s right, PA.

If he’s as far ahead in PA as the pollsters would like you to believe then why oh why would he be campaigning there?

Wanna know why?

Because the pollsters are yankin’ your chain.

They’re building Obie up trying to make everyone think that this thing is over.

Polls like Newsweek are so full of fuzzy math that it’s bubbling over.

Basically, they’re lyin’ Liberals just like you.

Even Zogby has warned you that “It’s far from over” and that he doesn’t “think Mr. Obama has closed the deal yet.”

In addition, have you ever heard of the “Bradley Effect” Sky? Do you have the mental acuity to even begin to understand how that will affect the polling numbers that you so eagerly hold on to?

Be careful Sky.

The ice you’re walking on is very, very thin.

When/if you decide to drop back by maybe you’d be willing to display your intelligence regarding voter fraud, ACORN, Project VOTE, the Democratic Socialists of America, the New Party, and the New Workers Party.

Your candidate is DEEPLY involved in those organizations and I would love to hear you pontificate on that.

Course we all know that you don’t have the stones for a two way conversation.

You much prefer to be a fly-by poster.

Dash in, sling poo, dash out.

That’s you.