Monthly Archives: September 2008

Obama’s Stem Cell Spinning

Posted on September 30, 2008

Summary An Obama-Biden radio ad hammers McCain for being opposed to stem cell research. Not true. Meanwhile two spots from the McCain-Palin campaign, together with the Republican National Committee, describe McCain’s support for the research; they’re largely accurate. By saying that "John McCain has stood in the way – he’s opposed …
More >>

Posted in Articles | Tagged , , | Comments Off

Not Coming Clean on Coal

Posted on September 30, 2008 , Updated on October 10, 2008

Summary The McCain-Palin campaign is airing radio ads in four states claiming that the Obama-Biden ticket "oppose[s] clean coal." That's false: Obama's energy plan, which he began promoting well over a year ago, calls for investing in "low emissions coal plants" and creating "5 'first-of-a-kind' commercial scale coal-fired plants with …
More >>

Posted in Articles | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off

Why We’re Not Called FutureCheck

Posted on September 30, 2008

We’ve received countless e-mails about a rumor that Joe Biden is planning to step down from the Democratic race, to be replaced by Hillary Clinton. Here’s the chain e-mail in question: Anonymous chain e-mail: Let me share some info with you that I have gotten from excellent sources within the …
More >>

Posted in The FactCheck Wire | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off

But That’s Not the Campaign’s Position

Posted on September 30, 2008

The two new articles we posted today at FactCheck.org have a common theme: saying the other candidate for president doesn’t support something he actual does. Check out the full articles to see how radio ads on clean coal and stem cell research are false: Not Coming Clean on Coal September …
More >>

Posted in The FactCheck Wire | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off

McCain Ad “Promise”: Promises Same Falsehood

Posted on September 29, 2008

The McCain-Palin campaign released a new ad called “Promise,” which the campaign says will air nationally. But it contains a whopper we’ve addressed a few times: The ad claims Sen. Barack Obama “voted to cut off funding for our troops.” But a McCain campaign press release announcing the ad cites …
More >>

Posted in The FactCheck Wire | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off

Home Foreclosures and Voting

Posted on September 29, 2008 , Updated on October 28, 2008

Q: Are the Republicans really trying to keep people from voting whose homes are in foreclosure? A: Republicans deny they have any such plans, and a voting rights group says those with homes in foreclosure can’t be barred from the polls anyway.

Posted in Ask FactCheck | Tagged , , , | Comments Off

FactChecking Debate No. 1

Posted on September 27, 2008 , Updated on October 13, 2008

Summary McCain and Obama contradicted each other repeatedly during their first debate, and each volunteered some factual misstatements as well. Here’s how we sort them out: Obama said McCain adviser Henry Kissinger backs talks with Iran “without preconditions,” but McCain disputed that. In fact, Kissinger did recently call for “high …
More >>

Posted in Articles | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments Off

About that live debate coverage…

Posted on September 27, 2008

You might have noticed that there wasn’t so much of it. Technical problems kept us offline for most of the night. We apologize for that. The good news? You can read our full debate wrap-up over at our main site.

Posted in The FactCheck Wire | Tagged | Comments Off

Chummy with Chavez?

Posted on September 26, 2008

If it’s loud, profanity-laced, anti-American vitriol from a foreign leader you’re looking for, Hugo Chavez is your man. And a new McCain-Palin ad, running in Florida, tries to make it appear that Obama would begin cuddling up to the Venezuelan leader first thing after testing out his Oval Office desk …
More >>

Posted in The FactCheck Wire | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off

Obama’s Trade Trickery

Posted on September 26, 2008

Summary An Obama-Biden ad ties McCain to the closing of a plant in Pennsylvania. Its assertions are misleading and false: The ad says McCain "sold … out" workers whose factory closed. But there was nothing McCain, or anyone could have done. The factory was making parts for televisions that are …
More >>

Posted in Articles | Tagged , , , | Comments Off

  2. 1
  3. 2
  4. 3
  5. 4
  6. 5
  7. 6
  8. 7
  9. 8
  10. 9
  11. 10