Author Archives: Viveca Novak

The Barton Apology, Stretched Too Far

Posted on June 24, 2010

In a new ad, the Democratic National Committee inaccurately accuses "the Republican Party" of endorsing Rep. Joe Barton’s notorious public apology to the CEO of BP. The ad goes too far when it tries to grease all Republicans with the same oily mess the Texas Republican made for himself at …
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Sunday Replay

Posted on June 21, 2010

The Father’s Day political talk shows contained a stretch here, an exaggeration there, misimpressions left everywhere. Here’s what we found. All Studies Don’t Agree On CNN’s "State of the Union," Sen. Joe Lieberman, an Independent, bragged about the supposed benefits of the climate-change bill he has introduced with Democratic Sen. …
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Obama’s Oil Spill Speech and Sunday Talk Shows

Posted on June 18, 2010

In episode 16 of FactCheck Radio, we look at some overstatements from the president in his speech on the BP oil spill. And we talk about false and misleading remarks from Republican Senate candidate Carly Fiorina and White House Senior Adviser David Axelrod on "Meet the Press." (Click the play …
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Obama’s GOP Critics: Carbon Copies

Posted on June 16, 2010

In his oil spill speech, President Barack Obama praised "a strong and comprehensive energy and climate bill." A chorus of Republican critics denounced the same thing as a "job-killing energy tax." Both sides know that battles are won or lost on how an issue is framed. And the truth is …
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Five Words

Posted on June 15, 2010

One nice thing about winning a Webby Award is that you needn’t bother making a long list of everyone you should thank from the podium – nor do you have to suffer through anyone else’s odes to early mentors or monologues about climate change. Five words: That’s all you get, …
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Carly’s Climate Caper

Posted on June 8, 2010

Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina has been attacking incumbent Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer since well before June 8, when Fiorina hoped to lock up the Republican Senate nomination in California. Her latest ad went up just a few days before the primary and falsely accuses Boxer of neglecting terrorism in …
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Sunday Replay

Posted on June 7, 2010

This Sunday’s round of political talk shows left a few misimpressions, among them the notion that nothing like the BP blowout had happened before. We clear up the confusion. Barbour on Blowouts Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour told "Fox News Sunday" viewers that the BP oil spill is the first time …
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Arizona and Prison Spas

Posted on June 4, 2010

In episode 14 of FactCheck Radio, we take a look at the controversial Arizona immigration law. We also examine an ad from Nevada that claims a Senate candidate supported Scientology-sponsored saunas and massage treatments in prisons. (Click the play button below to listen to the podcast. Or subscribe to the podcast …
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Arizona’s ‘Papers Please’ Law

Posted on June 3, 2010 , Corrected on July 30, 2010

We’ll leave it to others to decide whether Arizona’s new immigration law is a good thing or a bad thing — but here we try to straighten out some of the confusing factual claims. First, a quick summary. Contrary to what the law’s defenders often say, the new statute does more than merely mirror federal law. For example …
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Sunday Replay

Posted on June 1, 2010

Did someone in the White House commit a federal misdemeanor by getting involved in the Pennsylvania Democratic primary? A leading Republican House member says yes, but he’s contradicted by a former U.S. attorney general from the Bush administration. That’s our first subject in this holiday-delayed issue of "Sunday Replay," where …
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