If you watched the Republican debate last night you saw something increasingly common in our political (mostly Republican) discourse, a nearly fact-free event. It doesn't seem to matter that documentation exists about what candidates have said. They seem willing to simply make things up.
Thank you factcheck.org
http://factcheck.org/2011/08/factchecking-iowa-debate/
Here's a more timid analysis from the New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/08/us/politics/08check.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
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