Author Archives: Brooks Jackson

McCain’s Plane Crashes

Posted on September 5, 2008 , Updated on October 12, 2008

Q: Did McCain crash five planes? Did he cause the 1967 Forrestal fire? A: No. Chain e-mails and Internet postings that make that claim are mistaken. One crash was found to be his fault, but the Navy commended his piloting skills.

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GOP Convention Spin

Posted on September 3, 2008

Summary Joe Lieberman and his former Senate colleague Fred Thompson both made misleading claims about Obama in their prime time GOP convention speeches on Tuesday. We’ve heard two of them before – many times.   Lieberman said Obama hadn’t "reached across party lines" to accomplish "anything significant," though Obama has teamed …
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FactChecking Obama

Posted on August 29, 2008

Summary We checked the accuracy of Obama’s speech accepting the Democratic nomination, and noted the following: Obama said he could “pay for every dime” of his spending and tax cut proposals “by closing corporate loopholes and tax havens.” That’s wrong – his proposed tax increases on upper-income individuals are key …
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Obama and the “Christian Nation” Quote

Posted on August 26, 2008

Q: Did Obama say we "are no longer a Christian nation"? A: He said we are no longer "just" a Christian nation, but a nation of many other faiths as well. A chain e-mail drops that key word and thus changes the meaning.

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Reed Reality

Posted on August 22, 2008

Summary An Obama ad in Georgia ties McCain to former Christian Coalition executive Ralph Reed and the Abramoff lobbying scandal. It doesn’t give a full picture. The ad says that Reed "is now raising money for McCain’s campaign." But McCain has said, "I neither seek nor want his support." It …
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Pelosi and T. Boone Pickens

Posted on August 20, 2008

Q: Is Nancy Pelosi heavily invested in T. Boone Pickens' alternative energy company? A: No, but her husband bought stock in Clean Energy Fuels Corp. last year. It amounted to a tiny fraction of the couple's assets.

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Saddleback Bloopers

Posted on August 18, 2008

  Summary At a nationally televised forum at a mega-church in Southern California, we found these misrepresentations: Obama claimed that "I worked with John McCain" on ethics legislation. In fact, the two worked together for barely a week, after which McCain accused Obama of "partisan posturing" and added, "I won’t …
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The Truth About Tire Pressure

Posted on August 14, 2008

  Summary We are issuing a split decision in the Obama vs. McCain dispute over whether proper tire inflation could save as much oil as expanded offshore drilling is likely to produce. We find that proper tire inflation could save more than a billion gallons of fuel per year and …
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More Tax Deceptions

Posted on August 8, 2008 , Updated on August 12, 2008

Summary McCain released three new ads with multiple false and misleading claims about Obama's tax proposals. A TV spot claims Obama once voted for a tax increase "on people making just $42,000 a year." That's true for a single taxpayer, who would have seen a tax increase of $15 for …
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Obama Quote Rumors

Posted on August 6, 2008

Q: Did Obama urge supporters to help him change "the greatest nation in the history of the world"? A: No. Obama never said what’s being attributed to him in a number of chain e-mail messages. The line was meant as a joke about John McCain, Hillary Clinton and politicians in …
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