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Misleading Claims in Obama’s First 2012 Spot

Posted on January 20, 2012 , Corrected on January 21, 2012

President Obama’s first 2012 campaign ad misleads on ethics, “clean-energy” jobs and U.S. dependence on oil imports. The spot uses outdated quotes from groups that said his record on ethics is “unprecedented” and that he “kept a promise to toughen ethics rules.” One of those same …
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Loans to Mobsters, Ties to BP? Kirk’s Attack Ads Go Too Far

Posted on July 9, 2010

Republican Rep. Mark Kirk is attacking his Democratic opponent in the Illinois race for the U.S. Senate with two ads that go beyond what the facts support. The ads make unsupported claims about the role Giannoulias played at his family’s troubled bank and strain  to tie him to BP, among …
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IRS Agents, Health Care and Student Loans

Posted on April 2, 2010

In Episode 5 of our podcast, we look into Republican claims that the new health care law will require the IRS to hire 16,500 agents — and GOP Rep. Ron Paul’s assertion that they’d all be carrying guns. We also discuss health care ads from liberals and conservatives, and claims …
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Tea Party Fact-Checking

Posted on February 8, 2010

Sarah Palin made a splash over the weekend as the keynote speaker at the first National Tea Party convention, and she followed up with an interview on Fox News Sunday. But she didn’t always stick to the facts. Palin implied that the Nigerian would-be Christmas Day bomber stopped talking after he was read his Miranda rights. He did, but …
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That’s ‘Former Lobbyist’ to you

Posted on September 16, 2008

The Obama campaign has been pushing a connection between John McCain and lobbyists — as in saying that McCain has them working on his campaign. This ad, for instance, claims that “John McCain’s chief adviser lobbies for oil companies” and his “campaign manager lobbies for corporations outsourcing American jobs.” But …
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Reed Reality

Posted on August 22, 2008

Summary An Obama ad in Georgia ties McCain to former Christian Coalition executive Ralph Reed and the Abramoff lobbying scandal. It doesn’t give a full picture. The ad says that Reed "is now raising money for McCain’s campaign." But McCain has said, "I neither seek nor want his support." It …
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Not Pictured Here

Posted on August 12, 2008

  Summary An Obama ad features video of McCain walking toward the camera with a group of people in power suits, as the narrator says, "the lobbyists, running his low road campaign." None of the people pictured are lobbyists, however. The ad also repeats a misleading claim that McCain favors …
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Democratic Candidates Debate

Posted on April 27, 2007

Summary Eight Democratic candidates debated in South Carolina. We found some minor stumbles. Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois, explaining his call to show compassion for Palestinians, put a spin on the remark that differs from the way it was originally reported by an Iowa newspaper. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of …
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