Author Archives: DAngelo Gore

Future Fund’s Faulty Fusillade

Posted on March 19, 2010

The American Future Fund, a conservative advocacy group, is launching an offensive on multiple fronts against the proposed health care bill. Its television ad mixes bits of recycled images and false claims with new falsehoods, while its print ad sticks closer to the facts but begs some context. Video Attacks …
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Extras: Obama, Bush, Health Care and More

Posted on March 12, 2010

In this edition of Extras, we look at morphing presidents, a piece of health care pie chart and an ad that checks itself. Mighty Morphin’ Presidents In Sunday’s New York Times, the American Civil Liberties Union took out a full page ad urging President Obama to try Sept. 11 defendants …
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Voting for a Health Care Takeover?

Posted on March 3, 2010

A relatively unknown conservative group called the League of American Voters has launched an ad attacking Democratic members of Congress for, in the words of the TV spot, voting in favor of “Obama and Pelosi’s health care takeover." But the ad is filled with misleading claims.     The group’s …
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Summit Extras: Medical Malpractice

Posted on February 26, 2010

Yesterday we filed our lengthy report on the Blair House health care summit. But there were a few claims we didn’t have a chance to investigate, such as this exchange on medical malpractice. A key Republican proposal for any health care overhaul effort is so- called "tort reform" that would …
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Health Care Summit Squabbles

Posted on February 25, 2010 , Updated on March 2, 2010

We tuned in to watch the president’s health care summit at Blair House today — all six-plus hours of it. And we weren’t surprised to hear some factual missteps in the discussion: Sen. Lamar Alexander said premiums will go up for “millions” under the Senate bill and president’s plan, while President Barack Obama said families …
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Health Care Summit: We Rebut A Pre-buttal

Posted on February 24, 2010

The conservative American Future Fund has released an attack ad in anticipation of President Obama’s health care summit with Democrats and Republicans at the Blair House on Thursday. The group said the ad would air on cable television during the week. It says that the president and liberals want to …
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Extras: Biblical Derivatives, Teleprompters and Pelosi’s Plane

Posted on February 23, 2010

In this edition of FactCheck Extras, we look at the history of derivatives, President Obama's use of a teleprompter, and an old piece of bunk that won't go away. Deriving Derivatives The liberal group Americans United for Change has released an ad that blames Wall Street for high unemployment. The …
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Dick Cheney vs. Joe Biden

Posted on February 17, 2010

Vice President Biden and former V.P. Cheney have been slugging it out publicly over the proper way to prosecute suspected terrorists. Biden went so far as to accuse Cheney of being “factually, substantively wrong.” So we took a look, and found both men have been straining the facts …
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Koop’s False Claims

Posted on February 1, 2010

Former U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop claims that the United Kingdom’s health care system would consider seniors “too old” to qualify for the artificial joints, heart pacemakers and coronary stent that he’s received in the U.S. U.K. guidelines make clear …
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Obama’s State of the Union Address

Posted on January 28, 2010 , Updated on January 29, 2010; February 5, 2010 , Corrected on February 3, 2010

President Obama peppered his State of the Union address to Congress and the nation with facts, which were mostly right but sometimes cherry-picked, strained or otherwise misleading. He said “there are about 2 million Americans working right now” because of last year’s stimulus bill. But his own economic advisers say …
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