Fact Checker Enthusiast Prints

'Well, apparently you haven't heard. . . personal opinions are the new facts.'

Before the Internet

Rumors, lies and innuendo.

"Ever notice how grateful people are when you present them with facts contrary to their beliefs?"

The Expert

"Are these 'raw' facts or 'spun' facts?"

Rumours Online

The Month of July

"That's Eleanor. She's a fact checker."

Nearly a third of the earth's life-forms have gone extinct. Cut! Stop with all the facts. This is debate club! But we're using a cable tv talk show format! What should I say? Unsupported opinions

"Facts are good, but we need all the rumors, gossip, and speculation to fully understand the situation."

Funky Facts: Elephants.

'There are facts,there are factoids, and there are just plain fun facts.'

Two computers, smaller one labeled DATA, the larger one, HYPE

'You're so illogical. I can never win an argument with you.'

"If I meet one more person who thinks a whale is a fish!..."

"Starting at a new agency can be overwhelming. Let me show you around."

"We will demonstrate that climate change denial blogs cause further global warming."

Conspiracy theories

"Never lie to your attorney, Brad. If any lies need to be told I'll tell them."

'Hey, that line's moving a lot faster!'

'We ran a full DNA test, STR and Mitochondrial analysis... and Bob here 'Googled' it just to make sure.'

"Nothing wrong with half-truths...you still have 50% to manipulate."

'Actually, the bill is part of your reality therapy.'

"Stop fact checking my story."

"Stacy. Stacy. Honey... You're not a doctor."

Men, there is no I in team! Seriously. I just got a text from your English professor, so go ahead and fix that in the playbook I handed out. (Pulished originally on March 6, 2010.)

TV Zoo Trivia

Lemme ask you something: Do you care about the quality of information you get? How's you mean? You want professional journalists covering events? If so, you've got to pay them. Bloggers sitting in their jammies at home can't get you the facts from Istanbul. You look extremely bored. You've got a weird hangup with facts.

Zoology. Cheetahs can reach speeds up to sixty miles an hour! Amazing, and yet they never win!

You Can't Argue With The Facts!

"Do you have a few unsubstantiated claims I can borrow?"

The Mnemonic Plague.

The Stat family

If you are going to fact check my resume, I embellished the part about being an astronaut.