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FactCheck Mailbag, Week of March 19-25.
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Tag Archives: health care
The Gingrich Counterattack in Florida
Now comes the counterattack. After weeks of taking it on the chin in Florida without throwing a punch, the Gingrich side has finally begun to fight back with TV attack ads of its own. Among the new ads is one from a pro-Gingrich super PAC that takes the personal attacks …
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Posted in The FactCheck Wire
Tagged abortion, health care, medicare, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, taxes
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South Carolina Smackdown
Facts were sometimes used as blunt instruments as the four remaining GOP presidential candidates hammered away at each other in the last debate before Saturday’s South Carolina primary. Santorum and Romney tangled …
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Tagged abortion, health care, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, President Obama, Rick Santorum, Ron Paul, unemployment, veterans benefits
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New Hampshire Debates, Take 2
Less than 12 hours after the ABC News/Yahoo! debate in Manchester ended, the Republican presidential candidates were at it again — debating on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” As they did the night before, the candidates at times distorted the truth on a variety of topics, including Medicare, job creation, gasoline …
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Tagged fraud, gasoline prices, health care, jobs, Jon Huntsman, medicare, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum
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A Guide to the New Hampshire Debates
The remaining Republican presidential candidates meet Jan. 7 for a prime-time ABC News/Yahoo!/WMUR-TV debate at Saint Anselm College in New Hampshire. Less than 12 hours later, they meet again for an NBC News/Facebook debate on “Meet the Press.” Here are some possible lines of attack to expect, based on what …
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Tagged china, earmarks, Freddie Mac, health care, Illegal immigration, Iran, Jon Huntsman, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Restore Our Future, Ron Paul
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Neurological ‘Death Panels’?
Q: Does Obama plan to deny emergency brain surgery for patients over 70? A: No. A man claiming on a radio talk show to be a brain surgeon lied about that, and about a meeting of two associations of neurological surgeons, those associations say.
Flipping Through DNC Playbook on Romney
The Democratic National Committee casts Mitt Romney as an untrustworthy flip-flopper in a lengthy Web video, but pads a long list of examples with some falsehoods and distortions. It’s true that Romney has changed or modified his position on some major issues — including abortion, a federal assault weapons ban and Reaganomics, as the DNC says. But the video strains the truth …
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Tagged abortion, assault weapons ban, Bailouts, education, health care, immigration, labor unions, minimum wage, Mitt Romney, Ronald Reagan, stem cell research, stimulus, taxes
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Romney Didn’t OK New Benefits for Illegal Immigrants
Texas Gov. Rick Perry is claiming that Mitt Romney “OKd health care for illegal immigrants” by signing Massachusetts’ 2006 health care overhaul law. But the law didn’t give illegal immigrants anything new. It merely continued and renamed a state program that had long allowed low-income, uninsured residents, including those in …
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Tagged health care, illegal immigrants, Mitt Romney, Rick Perry
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Romney v. Perry in a YouTube Slugfest
Mitt Romney and Rick Perry are hammering each other with dueling — and distorted — YouTube ads. Romney’s ad says “unemployment has doubled on Perry’s watch” as Texas governor. That’s true. But it’s also true that Texas has bucked the national trend and now has a lower jobless rate …
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