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Gingrich Overshoots the Truth

Posted on May 17, 2011

Republican Newt Gingrich mistakenly claimed on "Meet the Press" that a U.S. helicopter involved in the Osama bin Laden raid "was shot down." There’s no evidence of that. U.S. officials say it crash landed and was destroyed by Navy SEALs. Gingrich also was wrong to say Pakistan’s intelligence chief did not …
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Thirty Million Uninsured

Posted on September 16, 2009

One of the items we noted in our Sept. 10 wrap-up of President Barack Obama’s televised prime-time address to Congress was his carefully worded estimate of the number of uninsured citizens. Obama, Sept. 9: There are now more than 30 million American citizens who cannot get coverage. We said that …
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Uninsured U.S. Citizens

Posted on March 10, 2009

Q: How many of the uninsured are U.S. citizens? A: The vast majority of the uninsured are citizens from working families.

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Highlighting Health Care

Posted on January 9, 2009

It has started. A new TV spot is running nationally saying that “fixing health care” is “something that we must do.” It is the first ad in what we expect will be a massive barrage of public relations claims on all sides of the coming debate over President-elect Obama’s …
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