Those fine folks over at
MoveOn recently launched
MisLeader.
Every weekday they post a short article explaining in detail the
difference between the Bush administration's spin and the actual facts surrounding a wide variety of issues. Unlike an unsettling majority of information making the rounds
these days, MisLeader backs there's up with footnotes referencing all
the sources used. Often times these will include links to documents on the
web -- Making it very easy to do your own research.
Additonaly, you can sign up to receive email announcements when new articles are
posted. Personaly, my inbox is an overflowing disaster... so I've set up a Blogger
blog to aggregate the emails into a handy RSS feed. You can subscribe to it here:
http://jason.similarselection.org/blogs/misleader.xml.
Some recent articles include:
Job Losses at Level of Great Depression
Contradict President Bush's Wishful Predictions
Instead of creating 510,000 jobs in 2003, as President Bush
predicted, the Republican-led economy has suffered a net loss of
473,000 jobs so far this year.
Bush Administration Knew Iraq Could Not
Pay for Reconstruction with Oil Revenues
President Bush has had to reverse course and increase his
request for reconstruction aid to Iraq more than eight-fold, from an
original $2.5 billion to a current level of $20.5 billion1, largely
because he earlier disregarded a well-documented report revealing the
poor state of Iraq's oil industry.