Welcome to another episode of the Michelle Tofoya podcast. We are living in a day and age where you hear

things, see people say things, read or, but it's especially when you see them say things in an

interview, in a press conference, at a political rally, whatever it is. And then later they try to

tell you, no, that's not what I said. And you're thinking to yourself, but I heard you.

I remember.

I saw you.

Well, there's a book out now about fact checking.

And who are these fact checkers?

And can you trust them?

It'll make you laugh, but it also might make you cry.

That's next.

Welcome to the Michelle Tofoya podcast.

Well, this is a beauty. Nothing is truly too absurd to check as long as it's coming from a Republican.

My favorite, I'm quoting now Matt Palumbo, our next guest. My favorite fact check of all time came from the Mercury News, which fact check trumps

obviously not literal claim that if you stacked up the 1,000 burgers he'd bought to cater an

event at the White House, they'd pile up, quote, a mile high.

That produced a headline that you can't help but laugh at.

Fact check, at two inches each, a thousand burgers would not reach one mile high.

The president lied to you about the burgers being a mile high.

Whatever happened to just saying things, you know, as a kind of a quip, I mean, this

thing went on for miles.

I could see for miles.

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