Monthly Archives: October 2012

FactCheck Mailbag, Week of Oct. 2-8

Posted on October 10, 2012

This week, readers sent us comments about our analysis of the first presidential debate between President Obama and Mitt Romney. 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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Talking Tax Breaks for Offshoring

Posted on October 10, 2012

Q: Do companies get a tax break for shipping U.S. jobs overseas? A: Not specifically for that reason. But companies can deduct business expenses, including the cost of moving a job to another state or even out of the country.

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NRCC Claims Democrat Will End Medicare

Posted on October 9, 2012

The National Republican Congressional Committee misleads in a TV ad that claims a Democratic candidate for Congress supports “eliminating Medicare entirely.” David Gill, who is running for a House seat in Illinois, supports a universal health care plan that would cover all Americans — ending the need for a stand-alone …
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The ‘Facts’ According to Obama and Romney Ads

Posted on October 9, 2012

In dueling ads, the Obama and Romney campaigns claim the factual high ground on deficits and taxes while, ironically, distorting the facts. An Obama ad uses a truncated quote that makes NBC’s Andrea Mitchell seem to contradict Romney’s statement that his tax plan doesn’t amount to a $5 trillion cut. …
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Health Care Falsehoods on the Stump

Posted on October 8, 2012

On Connecticut Public Broadcasting, Managing Editor Lori Robertson talks about the off-base health care claims in President Obama’s and Mitt Romney’s stump speeches. Obama misleads on Romney’s Medicare plan, and Romney uses a false statistic about insurance premium increases. For more on the candidates’ stump speeches, see “Romney’s Stump Speech” …
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Obama’s Numbers

Posted on October 8, 2012

For more than a year, we’ve been pointing out on a regular basis how President Obama, his allies and his critics all misuse or even fabricate statistics to give voters a skewed picture of reality. This time we’ll just offer the accurate numbers. Here — in a graphic …
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Oct. 5: Executive Orders, Food Stamps, Taxes

Posted on October 5, 2012
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Romney’s Clean Energy Whoppers

Posted on October 4, 2012 , Corrected on October 8, 2012

Mitt Romney made numerous bogus claims in the Oct. 3 debate about the $90 billion in grants, guaranteed loans and tax breaks for energy projects in the stimulus bill: Romney falsely claimed “about half” of the clean-energy companies that received U.S.-backed loans “have gone out of business.” But 26 companies …
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Fact-Checking the Presidential Debate

Posted on October 4, 2012

FactCheck.org Director Brooks Jackson talks to WCBS radio about the false and misleading claims made by President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney in their first presidential debate. The candidates got the facts wrong on taxes, deficits, jobs and more. For our full article on the debate claims, see “Dubious Denver …
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Dubious Denver Debate Declarations

Posted on October 4, 2012

We found exaggerations and false claims flying thick and fast during the first debate between President Obama and his Republican challenger, Mitt Romney. Obama accused Romney of proposing a $5 trillion tax cut. Not true. Romney proposes to offset his rate cuts …
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