We saw more aggressive fact-checking by journalists in this election than ever before. Unfortunately, as a post-election Annenberg Public Policy Center poll confirms, millions of voters were bamboozled anyway. More than half of U.S. adults (52 percent) said the claim that Sen. Barack Obama’s tax plan would raise taxes on most small businesses is truthful, when in fact only a small percentage would see any increase. More than two in five (42.3 percent) found truth in the claim that Sen. John... Click to Read the Full Post
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Rove Vs. Brokaw, and Other Sunday Squabbles
Republican strategist Karl Rove and NBC's "Meet the Press" guest host Tom Brokaw got into... This ad from Americans for Prosperity caught our eye because of the sheer number of falsehoods...
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FactCheck Mailbag, Week of March 2-March 8
