A newspaper editor is supposed to check facts, right? I always thought that fact-checking was in the official job description. Well, Bruce Tomaso of the Dallas Morning News‘ Trailblazers blog needs to brush up on his fact checking skills. In a pair of posts, he has taken to the Trailblazers blog to assail Sarah Palin’s Paul Revere reference. In the first, he paired Palin with Blutarsky from Animal House — you know, the “Germans bombed Pearl Harbor” clip. Note the total lack of research Tomaso did to build that post. He just followed the liberals’ lead, Palin said it so it must be wrong. Pair her clip with a famous movie ignoramus, har de har.
Pretty soon, I suppose, we’ll get Tina Fey in full Palin garb quoting that exact clip on Saturday Night Live to put Blutarsky’s words in Palin’s mouth. That’s how the “I can see Russia from my house!” faux quote got its start. But I digress.
A reader challenged Tomaso in comments and apparently email, and Tomaso doubles down in yet another post. He still doesn’t do a shred of research or check a single fact. If he had, he would now know that not only did Palin get the Paul Revere bit right, she also was on the receiving end of another liberal smear attempt back in October — a like the current attempt, that one failed because Palin was right and her detractors were wrong. From that, he could have extrapolated that Palin knows her history, even when giving a quote that makes it sound like she’s having a bit of a brain fart. It turns out that Sarah Palin’s brain farts know more than the left’s biggest bloggers on their best days — and can confound editors at big newspapers.
Fact. They’re fun, stubborn things. And they’re things that newspaper editors are supposed to check once in a while.
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