Chatfest

After some back and forth between Ms. Cole and Ananda Lewis, the Oprah Winfrey of this chatfest, Neffe and Frankie take their places on the couch, […]

Maybe that is not exactly the way things go for most bar jokes or for most talk shows. But it is standard operating procedure for Mike Straka, producer of "The Strategy Room," a chatfest that runs eight hours every weekday, streamed from FoxNews.com.

There they all were on the Sunday-morning chatfests, droning on about the anger of the American people as shown by the election in Massachusetts of a pickup truck to the U.S. Senate — ever ready, as pundits are, to take one good story and extrude it into a national trend portentous with meaning.

The fact checking, which started Sunday, stands in stark contrast to the he-said, she-said nature of most television chatfests, even though PolitiFact’s work takes place well after the facts and possible falsehoods are first uttered on TV.