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Author Archives: Robert Farley
Deja Vu: The Latest Attacks from Santorum
The latest TV spot from Rick Santorum’s campaign recycles a veritable “Best Of” list of misleading claims about Mitt Romney’s record and positions. Regular readers of FactCheck.org may recognize some claims as ones we have tagged as misleading, repeatedly. The ad says Romney’s health care law “included $50 abortions and …
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Posted in The FactCheck Wire
Tagged abortion, cap-and-trade, health care, Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum
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Does Santorum Care About Unemployment?
A new ad from the pro-Mitt Romney super PAC Restore Our Future plays a game of gotcha politics. It grabs a comment from Rick Santorum — “I don’t care what the unemployment rate’s going to be” — out of context to frame an attack on the former senator’s record on …
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Tagged Mitt Romney, Restore Our Future, Rick Santorum, unemployment
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Santorum: English Before Statehood
Rick Santorum greatly overreached when he claimed that Congress required ”English be the principal language and that it be taught and spoken universally” in several Southwest territories, Oklahoma and Hawaii as preconditions for them attaining statehood. Congress did require in some cases that new states conduct government business in English, or …
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Santorum-boosting PAC Slams Romney, Obama
Two new TV ads from a pro-Rick Santorum super PAC attack Mitt Romney and President Obama on Republican hot button issues: debt, taxes and oil. But the ads mislead on several fronts. One ad states that Romney supported …
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Tea Party’s Targets
Tea party-aligned FreedomWorks for America has launched campaigns against several Republicans whom it deems too moderate, including Senate veterans Orrin Hatch and Richard Lugar. But some of the group’s claims miss the mark. A TV ad targeting Hatch …
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Tagged David Dewhurst, debt, Dick Lugar, FreedomWorks, Orrin Hatch, TARP
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Wrestling with the Truth on Santorum’s Lobbying
The Mitt Romney campaign lifts a Rick Santorum quote out of context to level a charge that Santorum is being untruthful about his lobbying history. The Romney campaign claims to have caught Santorum being “at odds with the facts” when he told CNN, “I was not a lobbyist.” The Romney …
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Democrat-on-Democrat Attacks in Ohio
Ohioans are getting a healthy dose of misinformation in a nasty congressional primary in Ohio, which pits incumbent Democrats Marcy Kaptur and Dennis Kucinich against each other. Only one can survive the March 6 vote. Though Kaptur and Kucinich — both 65 and pro-union liberals — were longtime political allies, …
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The ‘Bailout’ Santorum Denies
Rick Santorum says, “I didn’t vote for a steel bailout.” But in fact, the former Pennsylvania senator voted in 1999 for the Emergency Steel Loan Guarantee Program, which was dubbed a “bailout” by multiple news organizations at the time. The loan guarantee program Santorum supported was much smaller than the …
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