{"id":6916,"date":"2010-09-04T13:00:36","date_gmt":"2010-09-04T17:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=6916"},"modified":"2010-09-04T13:00:36","modified_gmt":"2010-09-04T17:00:36","slug":"obama-should-bring-back-white-house-fact-checkers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/6916\/obama-should-bring-back-white-house-fact-checkers\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Should Bring Back White House Fact Checkers"},"content":{"rendered":"

In one of the most telling departures from the previous Administration, Obama officials decided to eliminate the White House\u2019s fact-checking team soon after taking office.\u00a0 After President George W. Bush received heavy criticism for 16 words<\/a> he said in his 2003 State of the Union Address, The Decider decided to hire a team of fact checkers to confirm the validity of every word the president spoke to the public.<\/p>\n

The result was a process that killed any portion of presidential remarks that couldn\u2019t be 100% verified.\u00a0 The moral of the story: facts matter.\u00a0 At least they did to the last occupant of the White House.<\/p>\n

Now it seems like facts are inconveniences that can be swept under the rug.\u00a0 That is, unless their absence appears on top of the new Oval Office rug in the form of a misattributed quote.\u00a0 On President Obama\u2019s redesigned floor emblem appears the quote \u201cThe arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.\u201d\u00a0 Though it\u2019s attributed to Martin Luther King, Jr., it actually belongs to antebellum abolitionist Theodore Parker<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Unlike Vice President Joe Biden<\/a>, King didn\u2019t forget to give credit for a line he made his own.\u00a0 Next time, Mr. President, get the facts straight before you commit taxpayer money to honor something that isn\u2019t true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In one of the most telling departures from the previous Administration, Obama officials decided to eliminate the White House\u2019s fact-checking team soon after taking office.\u00a0 After President George W. Bush received heavy criticism for 16 words he said in his 2003 State of the Union Address, The Decider decided to hire a team of fact […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[143,1798,491,101,1797,1796,44],"class_list":["post-6916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-barack-obama","tag-fact-check","tag-george-w-bush","tag-joe-biden","tag-martin-luther-king-jr","tag-theodore-parker","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6916"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6919,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6916\/revisions\/6919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}