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Tag Archives: Alaska
Alaskan Island Giveaway?
Q: Is President Obama giving away several Alaskan islands to Russia? A: No. The U.S. has never claimed ownership of the islands identified in viral emails and websites. They lie far closer to the coast of Siberia than to Alaska.
Posted in Ask FactCheck
Tagged Alaska, Herald Island, Obama, Russia, Soviet Union, Treaties, Wrangel Island
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Biden on Hezbollah, and other late debate goodies
In today’s Washington Post, Michael Dobbs, a.k.a. The Fact Checker, writes about a few more stumbles from the debate, including a couple items that we didn’t have in our story on Friday. Dobbs, a former diplomatic reporter, says Sen. Joe Biden was wrong when he said the U.S. and France …
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Posted in The FactCheck Wire
Tagged Alaska, Hezbollah, Joe Biden, Sarah Palin, vice presidential debate
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More on Palin’s False Energy Claim
There’s more on Sarah Palin’s claim, made in her ABC News interview, that Alaska produces 20 percent of the nation’s energy supply. As we noted in our original article, official statistics from the federal government show that Alaska produces only 3.5 percent of the total energy produced in the U.S., …
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Energetically Wrong. Still.
Last Friday, we wrote an article debunking Sarah Palin’s claim that Alaska “produces nearly 20 percent of the U.S. domestic supply of energy.” That’s false. The state’s share of U.S. energy production is actually 3.5 percent. Palin has now changed her tune: Palin (Sept. 15, Golden, Colorado): My job has …
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More on the Phantom 62 Percent
In our recent article “Sliming Palin,” we addressed the pervasive rumor that Gov. Palin slashed funding for special needs education. She didn’t. Instead, she increased funding. Here’s more detail on how an increase got mistaken for a 62 percent decrease. The evidence that’s been cited to support the false decrease …
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Under FactCheck’s Hood: A Note on Methodology for our Palin – 20% Energy Piece
Last Friday, we pointed out that a Palin-McCain talking point stating that Alaska “produces nearly 20 percent of the U.S. domestic supply of energy” was false. The actual figure was 3.5 percent. Within the story, we allowed (several times) that Palin and McCain may have misspoken and meant to say …
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Posted in The FactCheck Wire
Tagged Alaska, calculations, energy, FactCheck.org, John McCain, Sarah Palin
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About That Kilkenny E-Mail
So far, we’ve received roughly 43,937,809 (note: number is exaggerated for effect) e-mails asking us whether the chain e-mail from Wasilla’s most famous non-Palin, Anne Kilkenny, is accurate. As we wrote earlier this week, yes, Kilkenny is a real person and she did in fact write the e-mail. We looked at …
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Posted in The FactCheck Wire
Tagged Alaska, Anne Kilkenny, FactCheck.org, politifact.com, Sarah Palin
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Palin’s Change on Climate Change
Dipping one more time into last night’s Gibson/Palin interview, we found another misleading claim, this time on climate change. When Gibson accused Palin of flip-flopping her stance on the causes of global warming, Palin denied her position had changed on whether humans are partially responsible. But that doesn’t quite jibe …
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Posted in The FactCheck Wire
Tagged Alaska, charlie gibson, climate change, energy, global warming, Sarah Palin, vice presidential debate
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Fact-Checking…’The View’?
We generally don’t take it upon ourselves to parse ABC’s morning gabfest. But we noticed that when the chat turned to Palin’s record on earmarks McCain got it wrong. He was correct on one point: Palin vetoed $500 million in spending as governor. She axed over $230 million in state …
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Posted in The FactCheck Wire
Tagged Alaska, earmarks, John McCain, Sarah Palin, spending
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Did Palin Sell a Jet on eBay?
Q: Did Sarah Palin sell the Alaska governor's jet on eBay? A: The jet was placed on eBay for sale, but it wasn't purchased from the site. The plane was eventually sold through an aircraft broker to businessman Larry Reynolds for less than the asking price and the original cost.
