Alt. Title: WaPo "Fact Checker" Should Give Self 3 Pinocchios or Where in the World is Buchenwald?
Can you be a "fact checker" when you cannot get your own facts right? Can you take someone to task for their knowledge of history and geography when yours is equally bad? These are questions that should be asked of the Washington Post's "Fact Checker" Michael Dobbs after his glib and insensitive hit piece on Obama where he himself gets his own geographical facts wrong.
Many of you have probably already seen this faux controversy worked up in the news about Obama confusing Auschwitz with Buchenwald when discussing his great uncle's military service and role in liberating the concentration camps on Memorial Day. Dobbs, weighed in on this faux controversy and originally gave Obama 4 Pinnochio's. That's right, he ranked it as high as Tuzla.
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