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Monthly Archives: March 2012
Santorum-boosting PAC Slams Romney, Obama
Two new TV ads from a pro-Rick Santorum super PAC attack Mitt Romney and President Obama on Republican hot button issues: debt, taxes and oil. But the ads mislead on several fronts. One ad states that Romney supported …
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Truth-Twisting Tweets
In tweets to her followers, Nevada Rep. Shelley Berkley claims her Republican opponent for U.S. Senate voted to “kill Medicare” and to “effectively ban contraception.” Both statements are untrue. Sen. Dean Heller supported failed Republican legislation that would have substantially changed Medicare — in 2022 — to a program that …
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Posted in Spin Detectors Articles, The FactCheck Wire
Tagged contraception mandate, Dean Heller, health care (211), health insurance (74), medicare (64), Nevada, Shelley Berkley
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Health Care Costs Didn’t Double
Several readers asked us about Republican comments and news reports saying that a new Congressional Budget Office report had found that the federal health care law would cost double the original estimate. But that’s not what CBO’s report said. Instead, the report shows that the gross yearly costs of the …
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Posted in The FactCheck Wire
Tagged congressional budget office, health care law, Tom Price
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FactCheck Mailbag, Week of March 6-12
This week, readers sent us more letters about Democrats’ claims that Republicans want to “end Medicare,” and the difference between “lies” and “whoppers.” In the FactCheck Mailbag, we feature some of the email we receive. Readers can send comments to editor@factcheck.org. Letters may be edited for length.
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Romney: Foggy on FactCheck
Mitt Romney is a little unclear on the facts when it comes to factcheck.org — and what we and other fact-checkers have said about Rick Santorum. In the same CNN interview in which he made a somewhat premature claim that Santorum was at the “desperate end” of his campaign (just …
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Tea Party’s Targets
Tea party-aligned FreedomWorks for America has launched campaigns against several Republicans whom it deems too moderate, including Senate veterans Orrin Hatch and Richard Lugar. But some of the group’s claims miss the mark. A TV ad targeting Hatch …
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Posted in Articles
Tagged David Dewhurst, debt, Dick Lugar, FreedomWorks, Orrin Hatch, TARP
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Santorum’s Science
Rick Santorum calls global warming a “hoax.” If he were a scientist, he would be in a small minority. “The dangers of carbon dioxide? Tell that to a plant, how dangerous carbon dioxide is,” Santorum said at the Gulf Coast Energy Summit in Biloxi, Miss., on March 12. He made …
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Spotlight On: Jeanie Fusaro
When Jeanie Fusaro received a constituent mailer from her congressman about what’s going on in Washington, she thought: “They think we’re stupid because we’re seniors. They didn’t think we’d do our homework.” Fusaro, 66, was particularly skeptical of the letter’s statement that reports “predict higher unemployment for the next two …
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Posted in Spin Detectors Spotlight Articles
Tagged Congress (26), economy (66), jobs (73), Lynn Westmoreland, unemployment (20)
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