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FactCheck Mailbag, Week of March 19-25.
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2012 Players Guide
Author Archives: Brooks Jackson
Fact Checking Obama’s Speech
President Obama’s first speech to a joint session of Congress was stuffed with signals about the new direction his budget will take and meant-to-be reassuring words about the economy. But it was also peppered with exaggerations and factual misstatements. He said “we import more oil today than ever …
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Tagged ecoonomy, health care, oil imports, President Obama, speech to Congress, stimulus, stimulus bill
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GOP Stimulus Myths
Do some of the Republican claims you’ve heard about the stimulus bill sound too awful to be true? We find a few that are wildly exaggerated or downright false. It’s not true that the bill contains spending for “golf carts.” It has $300 million to buy fuel-efficient vehicles, some …
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Who is Linda Panetta?
Q: Is Leon Panetta’s daughter a "radical anti-American" who posed with Venezuela’s Chavez? A: Actually, President Obama’s nominee to head the CIA doesn’t even have a daughter. The woman pictured in a false viral e-mail message is a Philadelphia-based photographer who says she’s never met Leon Panetta.
Auto Worker Salaries
Q: Do auto workers really make more than $70 per hour? A: No. That figure is derived from what the auto companies pay in wages, health, retirement and other benefits, and includes the cost of providing benefits to retirees.
The Case of the Sleeping Justice
Another election, another set of bare-fisted battles for state Supreme Court seats. Think the presidential campaign ads were uncivil and misleading? Well…they were. But so were those put on the air by judicial candidates and their backers, who no longer blink at spending in the millions of dollars. Final tallies aren’t in yet, but in the last week before Nov. 4, $5 million was spent on ads in these races, more than in 2006, according to figures compiled by the Brennan Center for Justice.
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Tagged judicial ads, judicial election, Michigan Supreme Court, Mississippi Supreme Court
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The Whoppers of 2008 — The Sequel
Summary The last five weeks have brought so many ads we feel like we’re drinking from a fire hose – and we’ll bet you’re pretty saturated, too. Since our first "Whoppers of 2008" piece, we’ve seen some of the same themes repeated. McCain’s campaign doesn’t tire of distorting Obama’s tax …
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Spread the Tax Hooey!
Summary Republicans are misrepresenting Obama's tax proposals right down to the bitter end. New radio ads from the McCain campaign and a TV spot from the pro-Republican group Let Freedom Ring are targeting voters nationwide with some of the same tax deceptions we've been hearing all fall, rolled in a …
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Tagged Charlie Crist, Hank Williams Jr., John McCain, Let Freedom Ring, tax
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Court Fight in the Heart of Dixie
Summary Alabama holds the distinction of having had the nation’s most expensive Supreme Court races, with $54 million spent from 1993 through 2006. This year’s battle for an open seat on the bench seems likely to sustain the pattern, with heaps of cash being thrown down for ads and a …
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Tagged alabama supreme court, Court Watch, deborah bell paseur, greg shaw
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