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FactCheck Mailbag, Week of May 7-13.
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2012 Players Guide
Author Archives: Ben Finley
Freedom Path
A conservative group with ties to the National Republican Senatorial Committee and former Nevada Sen. John Ensign.
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Posted in Players Guide 2012
Tagged Freedom Path, National Republican Senatorial Committee, Orrin Hatch
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Blurring the Record in Utah
A group supporting Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch claims in a TV ad that a Republican challenger “voted to allow state employees to double dip, collecting a pension and a pay check.” That’s a gross exaggeration. Hatch’s opponent, former state Sen. Dan Liljenquist, actually authored a bill in the state Senate …
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Posted in Spin Detectors Articles, The FactCheck Wire
Tagged Dan Liljenquist, Freedom Path, FreedomWorks, Orrin Hatch, Utah
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Spotlight On: Charles Bertram
When Charles Bertram received a letter from Mitt Romney asking him for money, the Floridian was amused. Bertram is a Democrat — and has been since the late 1970s. “There was a line in there or something about liberals that just galled me,” the 60-year-old said. Bertram uploaded the letter …
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McConnell Misreads Oil Report
Mitch McConnell incorrectly claimed that oil production is “up 96 percent on state-owned land and private land,” which isn’t close to being true. Production rose 11 percent on those lands in fiscal year 2011, the period to which McConnell alluded. Even over the last five fiscal years, the rise has …
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Posted in The FactCheck Wire
Tagged energy (39), Mitch McConnell, oil (24), President Obama (42)
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Spotlight On: John Totten
John Totten said he often looks out for his friends and family by emailing them factcheck.org articles. When he came across a conservative group’s TV ad about North Carolina’s budget battle, Totten thought of a cousin who lives in that state and uploaded the video to Spin Detectors. We found …
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Posted in Spin Detectors Spotlight Articles
Tagged Americans for Prosperity, budget, North Carolina, taxes
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Inflated Claims in North Carolina Budget Battle
A conservative group omits some important details in a TV ad attacking North Carolina’s lame-duck Democratic governor and praising the Republican-controlled state General Assembly during a partisan budget battle. The ad says the legislature added state funding for “2,000 more teachers” and that its budget “adds teachers.” But the legislature’s …
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Posted in Spin Detectors Articles, The FactCheck Wire
Tagged Americans for Prosperity, Bev Perdue, North Carolina, teachers
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Romney Flubs Farmers Claim
Mitt Romney claims the Obama administration is telling farmers “what their 15-year-old sons and daughters can and can’t do on the family farm.” That’s not true. If anything, the Labor Department was considering telling farmers what their children can and cannot do on farms that others own or operate. And …
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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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