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Conservative Group Distorts Hagel’s Record

Posted on January 30, 2013

American Future Fund distorts Chuck Hagel’s record in its latest TV ad opposing his Senate confirmation for defense secretary: AFF says Hagel “sits on the board of a private equity firm with investments in Iran.” Hagel sits on an advisory board of Deutsche Bank, which the New York Times says …
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Peddling Innuendo, Exaggerations on ‘Obama’s Wall Street’

Posted on May 16, 2012

American Future Fund continues to exaggerate the facts in a new round of TV ads attacking President Obama’s ties to Wall Street. We do give the group partial credit, however, for correcting a misstatement from one ad it has re-released. It gets “partial credit” because the group corrected the error …
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Straining the Facts on Federal Spending

Posted on April 26, 2012

A TV ad by a conservative group gives some factually challenged answers to its own rhetorical question, “How exactly does President Obama spend your tax dollars?” It wrongly claims that the boss of the General Services Administration “couldn’t make it to Vegas because she had meetings planned … at Solyndra.” …
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American Future Fund

Posted on September 18, 2011 , Updated on January 29, 2013

Republican-leaning group formed by Iowa political figures.
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American Future Fund

Posted on October 13, 2010

Republican-leaning group formed by Iowa political figures.
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Future Fund’s Faulty Fusillade

Posted on March 19, 2010

The American Future Fund, a conservative advocacy group, is launching an offensive on multiple fronts against the proposed health care bill. Its television ad mixes bits of recycled images and false claims with new falsehoods, while its print ad sticks closer to the facts but begs some context. Video Attacks …
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Extras: Obama, Bush, Health Care and More

Posted on March 12, 2010

In this edition of Extras, we look at morphing presidents, a piece of health care pie chart and an ad that checks itself. Mighty Morphin’ Presidents In Sunday’s New York Times, the American Civil Liberties Union took out a full page ad urging President Obama to try Sept. 11 defendants …
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Health Care Summit: We Rebut A Pre-buttal

Posted on February 24, 2010

The conservative American Future Fund has released an attack ad in anticipation of President Obama’s health care summit with Democrats and Republicans at the Blair House on Thursday. The group said the ad would air on cable television during the week. It says that the president and liberals want to …
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Using H1N1 to Sway Health Care Debate

Posted on November 6, 2009

The American Future Fund, a conservative advocacy group, has released a new ad that uses the H1N1 vaccine as the crux of its argument against health care overhaul legislation. The ad asks: "If the government can’t run a flu program, can we trust it to run America’s entire health care …
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