Politics

AP Imposed a Michele Bachmann Fact-Check Quota

It was hard to keep up with her errors

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Michele Bachmann's statements during the Republican primary debates were so error-strewn that the Associated Press implemented a "quota" on how many claims they would fact-check.

AP editor Jim Drinkard, who oversees the fact-checking, said in a panel yesterday: "We had to have a self-imposed Michele Bachmann quota in some of those debates."