Politifact's Pants on Fire
I wouldn’t normally reply to a piece by PolitiFact, but because I’m quoted as a source for a recent piece on Mitt Romney, I weigh it’s worthwhile offering a bit of context. On Tuesday, I got the same email Tom Busciano received from Louis Jacobson at PolitiFact, asking my take on Romney’s latest debate claim the U.S. Navy is smaller than it’s been since 1917, and the U.S. Air Force is smaller and older than it’s been since 1947. What struck me about Jacobson’s communication was it asked if Romney’s statement was “technically true” and “what ambience does this ignore,” which carried the clear implication – as I warned Jacobson in my response – that he’d already decided what he was going to write.
