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	Name:	MartiniMan -
	Subject:	I'm not being dismissive
	Date:	8/18/2009 8:29:45 AM

Reread my post and you will see that I was very balanced in my review of the site and only suggested that people do their own homework. I meant you omitted the owner of the site from your post and thanks for the url.

And I didn't say they couldn't put aside their endorsement of Obama but I do believe it is reasonable to ask the question about whether they would be influenced by that endorsement. I doubt any of us would give Fox News the same benefit of the doubt.

It may be a separate website but it is run by the same company. I have multiple companies and each have their own website but the design and content of each are approved by the same people. May or may not be the case here but those that decided to endorse Obama and endorsed John Kerry also created this website and hired the people to run it.

The fact that they take Obama to task for his outright lies is not in and of itself proof of non-bias. Their bias could also influence the meter readings. It could also influence their choice of issues to examine and present (i.e., we will lean toward presenting comments by Obama and other Dems that are mostly true and ignore comments by conservatives that are mostly true). There are lots of ways to work their bias in the website.

Again, I am not necessarily impugning the website but I do believe blindly embracing everything in here as coming from some unbiased, omniscient entity is also unreasonable and the facts about the Times supports that cautionary note.