Thursday, March 20, 2014

‘Obama was Wrong’: WaPo Finally Gets Around to Fact Checking Obama’s ‘1980s Called’ Zinger | Mediaite

‘Obama was Wrong’: WaPo Finally Gets Around to Fact Checking Obama’s ‘1980s Called’ Zinger | Mediaite: "In March of 2012, The Washington Post fact checker Glenn Kessler took on a controversial claim made by GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney who said that Russia had positioned itself as America’s “number one geopolitical foe.” Unable to accurately check this broad claim, Kessler narrowed his review of the facts to Romney’s assertion that Russia “lines up with the world’s worst actors” and uses its veto power in the United Nations Security Council to protect them.

Kessler noted that UNSC vetoes have been sparing in the years immediately preceding this comment, and that Russia in particular had used that power four times since 2004 — and only once “over a matter of self-interest.” That “self-interest” happened to be Moscow’s desire to block U.N. observers from entering the Republic of Georgia after Russia invaded that country in August, 2008."



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