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James Fallows points out the central issue in our new glorious fact-check era.

"But the expectation in most of these notes, interestingly, is that it shouldn't matter whether there is any objective difference in who is bending the truth at any given time. If you point out problems "on one side," then you'd better find some equal and offsetting problem on the other, or else the game is rigged. Whether or not the problem is there." http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/09/three-quick-points-on-obamas-speech/262088/ This is the main pressure on fact-checkers and the media generally - to avoid being called unfair or biased by conservatives, they have to find *some* equivalent wrong, or else the entire mission has gone awry. What that mission is, I cannot say, since it's apparently not journalism.