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Originally Posted by Libertine
They'll get to her speech soon enough, and you can be entirely sure that they'll be fairly objective in shooting down lies and misleading statements.
While FactCheck might be wrong at times, when you start implying that they're partisan, it's time to look at just how objective you yourself are.
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Well it seemed to me they liked slamming obama more than McCain so I fired up old google and found this:
We are a nonpartisan, nonprofit, "consumer advocate" for voters
that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S.
politics. We monitor the factual accuracy of what is said by major
U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches,
interviews, and news releases. Our goal is to apply the best practices
of both journalism and scholarship, and to increase public knowledge
and understanding.
The APPC was established by publisher and philanthropist Walter
Annenberg in 1994 to create a community of scholars within the
University of Pennsylvania that would address public policy issues at
the local, state, and federal levels.
The APPC accepts NO funding from business corporations, labor unions,
political parties, lobbying organizations or individuals. It is funded
primarily by the Annenberg Foundation.
It sounds nice enough, but the problem is it's funding couldn't come
from a more partisan source. Despite a lengthy list of political
donations, Leonore Annenberg, the Trustee of the foundation, and the
late Walter Annenberg have never made a donation do a democratic
candidate. Not ever. Here's the list of donations: (You can search for
yourself here)
ANNENBERG, LEONORE RADNOR, PA 19087 ANNENBERG FOUNDATION
SANTORUM, RICHARD J
VIA SANTORUM 2006
06/24/2005
1000.00
25020261332
ANNENBERG, LEONORE
RADNOR, PA 19087
ANNENBERG FOUNDATION/TRUSTEE
MEIER, RAYMOND
VIA RAY MEIER FOR CONGRESS COMMITTEE
11/07/2006
526.00
26940731526
ANNENBERG, LEONORE
WAYNE, PA 19087
ANNENBERG FOUNDATION/TRUSTEE
SHAW, E CLAY JR
VIA FRIENDS OF CLAY SHAW
11/04/2006
526.00
26930675393
ANNENBERG, WALTER H
ST DAVIDS, PA 19087
ANNENBERG FOUNDATION
CALIFORNIA REPUBLICAN PARTY/V8
05/17/2000
5000.00
20035834450
Joint Fundraising Contributions
These are contributions to committees who are raising funds to be
distributed to other committees. The breakdown of these contributions
to their final recipients may appear below
ANNENBERG, LEONORE
RADNOR, PA 19087
ANNENBERG FOUNDATION/TRUSTEE
2006 JOINT CANDIDATE COMMITTEE
10/27/2006
10000.00
26930595960
Total Joint Fundraising: 10000.00
Recipient of Joint Fundraiser Contributions
These are the Final Recipients of Joint Fundraising Contributions
ANNENBERG, LEONORE
RADNOR, PA 19087
ANNENBERG FOUNDATION
BLASDEL, CHUCK
VIA BLASDEL FOR CONGRESS
10/27/2006
526.00
26930710238
DEWINE, RICHARD MICHAEL
VIA MIKE DEWINE FOR US SENATE
11/06/2006
526.00
26021101154
MN-06 CONGRESSIONAL VICTORY COMMITTEE
11/02/2006
526.00
26930599050
NY-24 CONGRESSIONAL VICTORY COMMITTEE
11/02/2006
526.00
27990271976
SODREL, MICHAEL E.
VIA FRIENDS OF MIKE SODREL
11/04/2006
526.00
26940818710
WHALEN, MICHAEL LOUIS
VIA WHALEN FOR CONGRESS
10/27/2006
526.00
27940060726
ANNENBERG, LEONORE
WAYNE, PA 19087
ANNENBERG FOUNDATION
CHABOT, STEVE
VIA STEVE CHABOT FOR CONGRESS
11/04/2006
526.00
26930671845
CORKER, ROBERT P JR
VIA BOB CORKER FOR SENATE
12/07/2006
526.00
27020180023
GARD, JOHN G
VIA GARD FOR CONGRESS
11/05/2006
526.00
27930264792
ROSKAM, PETER
VIA ROSKAM FOR CONGRESS COMMITTEE
10/27/2006
526.00
27930156452
SIMMONS, ROB
VIA SIMMONS FOR CONGRESS
11/04/2006
526.00
26940803885
WILSON, HEATHER A
VIA HEATHER WILSON FOR SENATE
11/06/2006
526.00
26940802379
ANNENBERG, LEONORE MR
RADNOR, PA 19087
ANNENBERG FOUNDATION
NORMAN, RALPH W MR. JR
VIA RALPH NORMAN FOR CONGRESS
10/27/2006
526.00
26950794441
ANNENBERG, LEONORE MS.
RADNOR, PA 19087
ANNENBERG FOUNDATION
RAINVILLE, MARTHA MS.
VIA MARTHA RAINVILLE FOR CONGRESS
11/06/2006
526.00
26930594404
ANNENBERG, LEONORE MS.
WAYNE, PA 19087
ANNENBERG FOUNDATION
DAVIS, GEOFFREY C
VIA GEOFF DAVIS FOR CONGRESS
11/03/2006
526.00
26930719847
ANNENBERG, LOENORE
RADNOR, PA 19087
ANNENBERG FOUNDATION
IA-01 CONGRESSIONAL VICTORY COMMITTEE
10/27/2006
526.00
27930761039
Recipient Total: 8416.00
Please feel free to advise those media outlets that refer to this
group as non-partisan that they are funded by a foundation created by
a man that gave $5000 to the California Republican Party in 2000. Now
the foundation which funds this non-partisan organization is run by
his Leonore Annenberg, who is worth $2 billion - but she can't spare a
Democrat a dime.