{"id":31124,"date":"2012-10-17T12:00:28","date_gmt":"2012-10-17T17:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=31124"},"modified":"2012-10-17T10:22:56","modified_gmt":"2012-10-17T15:22:56","slug":"31124","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=31124","title":{"rendered":"What If The Fact-Checkers Just Plain Don&#8217;t Know Facts?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Pioneer Press On-Line forwarded article from NationalJournal \u201cfact-checking\u201d the debate, that included this bit:<\/p>\n<p>Romney on assault weapons ban:<\/p>\n<p>Responding to a question about assault weapons, Romney said, \u201cWe, of course, don&#8217;t want automatic weapons, which is already illegal in this country.\u201d Actually, the federal ban on assault weapons \u2014 first enacted in 1994 under former President Clinton \u2014 expired in September 2004, during the George W. Bush administration.<\/p>\n<p>Um, kids, Clinton\u2019s assault weapons ban did not affect fully-automatic weapons, which is what Romney was specifically talking about. He knows the difference that you evidently do not. The \u201cfact-check\u201d sounds like it was written by one of our old friends.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p>\n<p>Como Park<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yep.<\/p>\n<p>Attention, media &#8220;fact checkers&#8221;; w<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=31096\">e covered this the other day. \u00a0Read it and learn something<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes writes: Pioneer Press On-Line forwarded article from NationalJournal \u201cfact-checking\u201d the debate, that included this bit: Romney on assault weapons ban: Responding to a question about assault weapons, Romney said, \u201cWe, of course, don&#8217;t want automatic weapons, which is already illegal in this country.\u201d Actually, the federal ban on assault weapons \u2014 first enacted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,4,230],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-12","category-media","category-the-fact-check-scam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31124"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31128,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31124\/revisions\/31128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}