Open thread for night owls: Michele Bachmann breaks the fact-checkometer

As Mitt Romney might say, I am guffawing uproariously over here. At a National Press Club panel on fact-checking, there was a discussion of whether the mean, cruel media fact checkers were overly harsh on Republicans, compared to Democrats, and that led to mention of the Republican primary season ...

Jim Drinkard, an Associated Press (AP) editor who oversees the wire service's fact-checking work, said, 'We had to have a self-imposed Michele Bachmann quota in some of those debates.'

After the session, Drinkard said that there wasn't an actual numerical quota on Bachmann at the AP. It's just that if the AP had gone back and vetted all her claims that looked dicey, the result would 'overload' the debate story. 'Often she was just more prone to statements that just didn't add up,' said Drinkard.

There's nothing I can say that can top that, so I won't even try.

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