Tag Archives: Michele Bachmann

No Secret: Bachmann Gets It Wrong

Posted on March 8, 2011

Rep. Michele Bachmann's claim that Democrats "secretly" hid $105 billion in health care spending is way off base. It's true that the new health care law contains many billions in future spending, but there was no secret about that. The Minnesota Republican told "Meet the Press" host David Gregory that "secretly, …
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FactChecking the GOP Response

Posted on January 27, 2011

We fact-checked President Obama’s State of the Union address, but what about the Republican response speeches? We found two new claims that we haven’t covered before: In the official response …
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Stop the @#%! ‘Profanity’

Posted on October 13, 2010

Do "bleep" and "@#%!" count as low-down, shocking "profanity"? Michele Bachmann says they do. The GOP House member from Minnesota is claiming in a fundraising appeal to conservative donors that her Democratic election opponent, Tarryl Clark, released a "shocking, profanity-laced attack against me" and has thus reached "a new low." Here’s …
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Bachmann Decries Rumors, Then Spreads Them

Posted on September 18, 2010

At Friday’s conservative Values Voter Summit, Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann spoke out against "falsehoods and rumors" about the tea party movement. We applaud any call to combat misinformation — but Bachmann would do well to guard against falsehoods and rumors herself. In the same speech, she complained about "Speaker Pelosi, …
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The Barton Apology, Stretched Too Far

Posted on June 24, 2010

In a new ad, the Democratic National Committee inaccurately accuses "the Republican Party" of endorsing Rep. Joe Barton’s notorious public apology to the CEO of BP. The ad goes too far when it tries to grease all Republicans with the same oily mess the Texas Republican made for himself at …
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Sunday Slips

Posted on April 12, 2010

Viewers were relatively safe from false or misleading tripe on the Sunday morning talk shows yesterday. But we can’t let a couple of statements go unmentioned, one from Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour and a couple from Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota; both officials are Republicans. Barbour, speaking on CNN’s "State …
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The Abortion Issue

Posted on April 1, 2010

Q: What are the facts regarding the new health insurance law’s federal funding for abortion, or lack of it? A: The law says individuals who get federal subsidy dollars must use their private money to pay for coverage of abortion except in cases of rape, incest or to save the …
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Overstated Stats

Posted on April 1, 2010

Congressional Republicans appearing on CBS’ "Face the Nation" repeated a couple of false claims we’ve talked about before. The first guest, Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina, inflated some statistics when he talked about opposition to the health care bill. His claim, that 60 percent of Americans support repealing the bill, …
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