Tim Cavanaugh Talks Fact Checking on HuffPost Live

How many facts can a fact checker check? 

Are Americans too dumb to be trusted with their own news preferences? 

Is this type of thing too disturbing for viewers to see without media filtration? 

How about this? 

Why won't the unbiased media objectively admit the demonstrable truth that everything Paul Ryan says is a lie?

Where's Pat Moynihan to shed a Jameson-infused Irish tear for the way our society has defined fact-checking down? 

I appeared this afternoon on something called HuffPost Live, discussing the new fad for freelance fact-checking. Host: Mike Sacks. Other guests: David Westin, Lorraine Devon Wilke and Zach Carter. 

Here's the link. 

Comments

[Fist of Etiquette]

Is Cavanaugh the Unabomber? Or is that just wood paneling? No wonder you can't sell your crib, Timmy.

[Tim Cavanaugh]

That's the nicest part of the house! It's got a fully built out and paneled basement. Once it's furnished it won't be so bad.

[Corning]

How did you move it from California to Virginia?

[Fist of Etiquette]

My crazy uncle had his entire basement, walls and ceiling decked out in tongue in groove cedar paneling. Plus a wood flooring. Really nicely done. My cousin called it the coffin.

[SIV]

My favorite type of house I might actually afford is ca. 1960 California Modern with tongue and groove ceilings.
Of course the particular Cali Modern houses I'm thinking of are just down the road a piece here in civilized Georgia.

[darius404]

Tim, what did you yell to Sacks at 16:43 in the video? I can't make it out.

[silent v]

something about an empty chair.

[The Immaculate Trouser]

Nth!!!

[Fist of Etiquette]

I'm being infantilized! It costs extra. Check with your local pimp before making any transaction.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Loraine wants people spoonfed her facts.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Ha, David is relying on Krugman for factchecking now.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Cavanaugh: I was a teenage flack.

Sacks: It's like a sauna in here.

[Fist of Etiquette]

When people self-select they go to outlets that don't give them good information? So then nobody is accurate?

[Fist of Etiquette]

Sacks: Ryan is the liar.

[Fist of Etiquette]

THIS WASN'T LIVE AT ALL. And Cavanaugh dominated.

[darius404]

Cavanaugh dominated.

Thank the lag. By the time he realizes someone else is speaking, they've already shut up.

[Jerry on the road]

Needs more Alyona.

[Corning]

Short Lorraine Devon Wilke:

"My readers are idiots."

[Corning]

Short Zach Carter:

"We need gate Keepers for this flood of truth!!!!"

[Corning]

Short David Westin:

"Horrible horrible freedom."

[MWG]

Way to represent libertarians Tim... on a flip phone in what appears to be a bunker. Seriously, are you Epi?

[JeremyR]

You have to realize, that's exactly why liberals (and Russian totalitarians) love Reason so much - they are useful idiots.

See how crazy libertarians are. See how crazy Americans are.

[darius404]

Because everyone knows using a flip phone in your basement is the height of craziness....

[Killazontherun]

Yeah, I don't get it either, Jeremy is making a first tier call on forth tier information. Maybe that's the joke, and I'm too catpissed faced to get it at this time.

[Killazontherun]

Examining it now, the only thing I see that Tim did wrong was not hide that door structure straight out of a Fall Out 3: New Vegas* ruin with a bookshelf pushed in front of it so it the surrounding would give that professor's office vibe from a segment from the News Hour.

* My office is in worse shape and the entire house would be if not for the wife's upkeep.

[darius404]

Man, HuffPostLive commenters are NUTS:

bbbbmer -

4h niall ferguson is NOT an 'opinion leader' -- his piece was almost ENTIRELY derived from JEALOUSY -- and that's about it -- he will NEVER be a nobel laureate, and he will NEVER be trusted again... Paul Krugman's word is GOLDEN, but that's because he speaks truth to people

[Killazontherun]

Paul Krugman's word is GOLDEN, but that's because he speaks truth to people

Progressive lefties, YOU are the sign of the Apocalypse.

[Corning]

Progressive lefties, YOU are the sign of the Apocalypse.

I suppose the cause of the Apocalypse can also be the sign of it.

[johnl]

Careful with the colloidal silver.

[Suthenboy]

Sweet....the video of rajiv fernando is no longer available. How on earth could that happen? Probably just a technical glitch.

[johnl]

I believe this article contains the video you are looking for: http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/.....EqwJzGe6G4

[Paul.]

Who's the high school Jr. running the show?

[VG Zaytsev]

Oh my fucking god.

That doucebag from ABC actually thinks Krugman is an honest font of wisdom, a top man. The fucking media bias is even worse than I thought, and that's fucking say something.