Who is telling the truth?

INCIDENT:
In today's very partisan political climate it is incredibly hard to find any truth from under all of that spin. This is part of the reason why I usually get my news from NPR or from international news outlets (somehow I think it is less skewed). So you can imagine how excited I was to read about a nonpartisan, nonprofit website that tries "to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics."

So a little background... for Christmas my good friends gave me a subscription to an excellent magazine called GOOD. You should all really check it out. 100% of your subscription goes to a GOOD nonprofit partner of your choice. How cool is that?! But I digress... So in the March/April 2008 issue of GOOD they talk about truth in politics and feature the website FactCheck.org. There is no advertising on the site. They are not backed by any political party. It is a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania, which does not accept funding from "business corporations, labor unions, political parties, lobbying organizations or individuals."

MORAL:
The internet is great, isn't it? We can question the credibility of our politicians without doing any of the tedious legwork. Plus with more websites and organizations like FactCheck.org, politicians need to be careful with what they put out in the world. Big brother is watching. Ha! But does this mean that politicians will all of a sudden be straight with us? Probably not completely. I mean I can't imagine that happening considering the complexity of the issues and the fact that everyone wants to portray themselves as good. But hopefully some of the blatant lies will be uncovered. And we won't have to be subjected to 4-8 years of the same.