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Phones for our last halfhour of the show today to talk about Public Policy issues that you want to talk about. Well be right back. Sunday, Washington Post fact checker columnist on his biggest pinocchios of 2014 awards, given to politicians and political groups he believes made the biggest false claims this past year. Democrats tend to get a little more upset at them, because i think they bought into the myth of the liberal media, and they kind of think that the media is on their side , whereas republicans, they firmly believe in the myth of the liberal media, so they kind of expect that theyre going to be, you know, a reporter for the Washington Post calling it, theyre not going to be fair to me. I kind of think, i hope that over the last four years ive done enough back and forth, treated both parties with equal fervor that people have now come to, you know, grudgingly say, ok, youre someone we can do business with. I know that the Senate Majority p. A. C. , which is affiliated with h