That, to me, was a big shift. You saw a torrent of advertising, as a lot of it disconnected from the campaigns. Some of the campaigns, you ended up with more ads done by outside groups than by the candidates themselves. We talked three years ago and we went through the philosophy of the fact checker, which is online, anyone can watch. For those of you who dont know what you do, what is the fact checker . The Washington Post launched it in 2007. It was just for the 2008 campaign year. It was originally done by my colleague, michael dobbs, who writes history books now. In 2011, the Washington Post asked me to revive the fact checker and make it a permanent feature. Generally, i write and i have a colleague who works on it with me i write one or two fact checks per day. One runs in the sunday Washington Post as well. I rate politicians based on the accuracy of their statements. I look for statements that are about big issues, statements that i can use to tell a larger story about the back
With the rise of the super pacs , a lot of the ads were pretty bad. That, to me, was a big shift. You saw a torrent of advertising as a lot of it disconnected from the campaigns. Some of the campaigns, you ended up with more ads done by outside groups than by the candidates themselves. We talked three years ago and we went through the philosophy of the fact checker which is online, anyone can watch. For those of you who dont know what you do, what is the fact checker . The Washington Post launched it in 2007. It was just for the 2008 campaign year. It was originally done by my colleague, michael dobbs, who writes history books now. In 2011, the Washington Post asked me to revive the fact checker and make it a permanent feature. Generally, i write and i have a colleague who works on it with me i write one or two fact checks per day. One runs in the sunday Washington Post as well. I rate politicians based on the accuracy of their statements. I look for statements that are about big issue
Story about the background of the federal budget, or the Health Care Law, issues that are confusing to people, that they hear politicians talk about, and are wondering, is that really true . It is kind of like a reverse restaurant rating. The worst you can get is four pinocchios. Three is mostly false, one is, there is some problem with the statistic, it may be out of context. If you are completely factually accurate, you get a gepetto check mark. How many gepettos did you give out this year . Maybe four or five. I tell myself i need to give more gepettos. Here is a video you put together about president s. I want to ask you you dont like to talk about the word lying. I want to ask you about the word when we see this video. Cambodia, a small country of 7 million people, has been a neutral nation since the agreement of geneva, signed by the government of north vietnam. American policy since then has been to respect the cambodian peoples neutrality. We did not, repeat, did not trade weap
I dont know if this is good news or bad news but i will lay it out there. Sources tell us that the new york ag is not looking in this enforcement action in this hft prone. He is looking for structural changes in the hft business. What he is looking to change is out there already. Early read on thomson reuters, he wants to end that he is looking to moderate the speed advantage. That is is key. That will prevent, my view, this is my opinion now, at least make it very difficult for virtu, the High Frequency trading firm owned by vincent viola, former head of new york mercantile exchange, make it difficult for virtu to come public if you erase that nanosecond speed if that is what schneiderman wants. This investigation is in early stages. Never say will be not be an encoresment action in early stages. Right now he is not focusing on enforcement action but looking for structural change for the business that could hurt firms wanting to go public in this trading business. Melissa awesome, cha
Georgia. Perdue led in the preelect pol polls. Far back from the pack, most recent poll are House Tea Party caucus members, paul brown, and phil begin agree. Other top races tonight, moderate republican monica wehbe, faces off against oregon state Tea Party Favorite jason conger. The winner gets to run against vulnerable democratic senator jeff merckly in november. Wehbe went into election day with the lead. Congressional races in pennsylvania and idaho have sitting u. S. Congres congressmag off against lesser known partisateaparty candidates. Well begets results live for you as they happen, well bring them to you throughout this ho hour. With 167 days remaining in the the midterm, democrats reportedly are becoming frustrated with president obama. For a lack of involv involvemena lack of strategy for the midterm elections. For more i am joined by ed rollins, and were going to be joined hir here by juan william, and i want to turn you to first, most important race as we have highlighted