Analysis: Fact-Checkers Fall Short in Criticizing NRA's Anti

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Linkarooni - this coming from FoxNews doesn't bode too well for the impartiality of those media "fact checkers", including FactCheck.org.

Analysis: Fact-Checkers Fall Short in Criticizing NRA's Anti-Obama Ads

Wednesday, September 24, 2008
By John R. Lott, Jr.

Guns have become an important issue for Barack Obama’s campaign. Starting around the Pennsylvania primary, Obama and his campaign surrogates began strenuously assuring gun owners that he supports gun ownership, and it appears to be paying off. A poll in August showed that John McCain led Obama among hunters by only 14 percentage points, just about half the 27-point lead that President Bush held over John Kerry in 2004. If McCain had a similar lead, he would be ahead in most polls, particularly in many battleground states.

This past weekend, Joe Biden, campaigning in southwest Virginia, called any notion that Obama wanted to take away people’s guns “malarkey.” Montana's Democratic governor, Brian Schweitzer, previously told reporters that Obama "Ain't ever going to take your gun away." Obama regularly makes similar statements -- at least about rifles and shotguns.

Yet, the NRA, which has given the voting records of both Obama and Biden an “F” rating, has a quite different view, and has started a $15 million ad campaign to warn people about what it regards as Obama’s and Biden’s records. One mailer from the NRA says, "Obama would be the most anti-gun president in American history."

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Much of the story echoes what David Kopel has already found about the news stories criticizing the NRA's Obama ads.