Author Archives: Viveca Novak

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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Not Pictured Here

Posted on August 12, 2008

  Summary An Obama ad features video of McCain walking toward the camera with a group of people in power suits, as the narrator says, "the lobbyists, running his low road campaign." None of the people pictured are lobbyists, however. The ad also repeats a misleading claim that McCain favors …
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Wind Power Puffery

Posted on August 8, 2008

Summary A McCain ad shows pictures of wind-driven turbines while the narrator says: "Renewable energy to transform our economy, create jobs and energy independence, that's John McCain." But, in fact, his energy plan doesn't specify any new federal spending for renewable energy and says only that he'd "rationalize" existing tax …
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Idealistic on Energy

Posted on July 31, 2008

Summary Obama’s ad responding to McCain’s latest attacks on him includes the claim that his energy plan will "break the grip of foreign oil." We’re not sure what "break the grip" translates into in terms of cuts in U.S. oil imports, but we’re sure that Obama’s proposals don’t guarantee it. …
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Questionable Quotes

Posted on July 18, 2008

Summary Vets for Freedom, a group made up of veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, launched a new ad this week that falsely attributes a quote to the Washington Post. The ad gives the impression that the Post was a critic of the surge in Iraq and is …
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Tax Tally Trickery

Posted on July 3, 2008

Summary The McCain campaign and the Republican National Committee both claim that Obama has voted 94 times “for higher taxes.” We find that their count is padded. After looking at every one of the 94 votes that the RNC includes in its tally, we find: Twenty-three were for measures that …
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Katrina Kerfuffle

Posted on June 5, 2008

Summary McCain was asked by a New Orleans reporter why he voted twice against an independent commission to investigate the government’s failings before and after Hurricane Katrina, and he incorrectly stated that he had "voted for every investigation."   McCain actually voted twice, in 2005 and 2006, to defeat a …
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Seating Florida’s and Michigan’s Delegates

Posted on May 20, 2008 , Updated on May 21, 2008, June 2, 2008

Q: What’s going on with Florida’s and Michigan’s delegates to the Democratic convention? A: The DNC rules committee will meet May 31 to come up with a solution to seating the delegates.

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The Budget According to McCain: Part II

Posted on May 14, 2008

In our last installment we looked at McCain’s pronouncements on spending cuts to help balance the budget. In Part II, we examine what he’s said on a subject that might be more pleasing to many Americans: lowering taxes. We found exaggerations and distortions here, as well.
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McCain’s $5,000 Promise

Posted on May 1, 2008 , Corrected on May 1, 2008

McCain says in a new TV ad: “Let’s give every American family a $5,000 refundable tax credit” to buy health insurance. Sounds good. But McCain failed to mention how existing employer-sponsored health benefits would be affected.
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