Monthly Archives: October 2008

Michelle Obama’s Room Service?

Posted on October 29, 2008

Q: Did Michelle Obama spend $450 on room service? A: No. The claim is a total fabrication, and the sources that publicized it have retracted the story.

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A License to Kill

Posted on October 28, 2008

Summary An upstart group calling itself the "National Republican Trust PAC" mixes a pile of false claims and the image of 9/11 mastermind Mohammed Atta to create one of the sleaziest false TV ads of the campaign. The spot falsely claims Obama has a "plan" to issue driver’s licenses to …
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A Spam Metamorphosis

Posted on October 28, 2008

We’ve seen a lot of misleading spam this season claiming Sen. Barack Obama is guilty of one or all of the following: He won’t place his hand over his heart for the national anthem. He refuses to wear a flag pin. He replaced the American flag on his campaign plane …
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“Tiny’s” Back…

Posted on October 28, 2008

The McCain-Palin campaign announced today that it will release “its latest television ad” called “Tiny.” But it’s not the campaign’s newest ad – not by a long shot. The ad was announced and aired in August when it was also described as the campaign’s “latest television ad.” In a press …
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‘Unethical?’

Posted on October 27, 2008

Summary An ad released jointly by the McCain-Palin campaign and the RNC claims Obama "rewards his friends with your tax dollars" and calls his actions "unethical." Some of what the ad says is false or misleading. Here are the facts: The ad claims that Obama supporter and Chicago real estate …
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Berg Gets Sunk

Posted on October 27, 2008

Readers have been champing at the bit to know our view of the lawsuit brought against Obama by a Philadelphia Hillary supporter, which alleges that the candidate is not a natural-born U.S. citizen. (We know —this again?) Of course only a judge is qualified to legally determine the validity of …
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Spread the Tax Hooey!

Posted on October 26, 2008

Summary Republicans are misrepresenting Obama's tax proposals right down to the bitter end. New radio ads from the McCain campaign and a TV spot from the pro-Republican group Let Freedom Ring are targeting voters nationwide with some of the same tax deceptions we've been hearing all fall, rolled in a …
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A Little Ditty ‘Bout Taxes and Trade

Posted on October 26, 2008

The Obama-Biden campaign has released a radio ad in Indiana featuring favorite native son John Mellencamp. In the ad, Mellencamp says, “John McCain will keep giving tax breaks to companies shipping American jobs overseas.” Mellencamp is referring to an aspect of the tax code that allows companies to skirt paying …
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Right Change Is Wrong

Posted on October 24, 2008

Summary A conservative group called RightChange.com has spent $3 million running ads that largely criticize Obama and his tax plans. They’re false:  Two ads say Obama would tax "small businesses" at a rate of "62 percent." He wouldn’t. That number is an inflated estimate of the very top tax rate, …
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Erratic Quotes

Posted on October 24, 2008

The Obama-Biden campaign has a new, unannounced ad that says McCain has been “erratic” in his response to the financial crisis: The ad includes various critical quotes from editorials in the Washington Post, USA Today and Politico. We looked up the original articles, and all the quotes are in context. …
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