AP uses 52 times more manpower to fact check Palin’s book than to review Senate health care bill

Oh, here’s a shocker.

From Townhall:

James Taranto has a bit today in the Wall Street Journal where he looks at the Associated Press’ “fact-check” on Sarah Palin’s new book and the attention they are devoting to the Democrats’ health care overhaul:

An Associated Press dispatch, written by Erica Werner and Richard Alonso-Zaldivar, compares the House and Senate ObamaCare bills. We’d like to compare this dispatch to the AP’s dispatch earlier this week “fact checking” Sarah Palin’s new book. Here goes:Number of AP reporters assigned to story:
   • ObamaCare bills: 2
   • Palin book: 11

Number of pages in document being covered:
   • ObamaCare bills: 4,064
   • Palin book: 432

Number of pages per AP reporter:
   • ObamaCare bill: 2,032
   • Palin book: 39.3

In all, AP used 52 times the resources fact-checking Sarah Palin’s book as they did reviewing the biggest, and worst, piece of legislation in our republic’s history.

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