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FactCheck Mailbag
FactCheck Mailbag, Week of May 1-7.
See letters from previous weeks“ Keep up the good and unbiased work -- especially this year with the upcoming elections. ” Viral Spiral
PA Congressman Resorts to Smear Campaign
Rep. Tim Holden falsely claimed in a recent TV ad that his opponent won a multimillion-dollar lawsuit in exchange for campaign contributions to a corrupt judge. In fact, a jury — not the judge – awarded $3 million to lawyer Matt Cartwright’s client in that case. The Holden campaign told us …
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Immigration Inflation
An ad running in San Diego and on MSNBC claims immigration will cause a rise in U.S. population equal to that of the American West within 30 years. That’s not true. The increase is projected to be substantial, but nowhere near that high, even counting the children and grandchildren of …
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Fouling Lugar’s Foe
The Republican primary for Sen. Richard Lugar’s seat is apparently too close for comfort. Both Lugar’s campaign and the American Action Network are airing misleading attack ads against Indiana Treasurer Richard Mourdock, the senator’s challenger for the nomination. The ads strain the facts to make Mourdock look like a tax …
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Posted in The FactCheck Wire
Tagged American Action Network, Richard Lugar, Richard Mourdock
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The Facts About ‘Fat Cats’
Even though we are serious-minded fact-checkers, we are not completely without humor, and MoveOn.org’s latest TV ad on “fat cats” and the “Buffett Rule” is pretty funny. But the ad may leave an im-purr-fect impression. One that’s off by more than a whisker. The TV ad says, “President Obama’s Buffett …
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What Priorities USA Action Doesn’t Tell You
A pro-Obama super PAC’s new TV ad portrays Mitt Romney as a past and future threat to middle-class families. The statements it makes about Romney’s business dealings and tax proposals contain some truth — but don’t tell the whole story: The ad says Romney is proposing “a huge new $150,000 …
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Vote for Us for a Webby Award
Former House Speaker Thomas “Tip” O’Neill Jr. was fond of telling the story about a longtime neighbor, Elizabeth O’Brien, who felt slighted by O’Neill’s failure to ask her for her vote in his first campaign. In the story, as recalled in a “virtual exhibit” by the Burns Library at Boston …
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Obama and the ‘Buffett Rule’
In their zeal to pass the “Buffett Rule,” President Obama and Vice President Biden leave the false impression that many, if not most, millionaires (people who earn $1 million or more a year) are paying a lower tax rate than the middle class. The fact is that even without the …
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Posted in The FactCheck Wire
Tagged Mitt Romney, President Obama, taxes, warren buffett
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Blurring the Record in Utah
A group supporting Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch claims in a TV ad that a Republican challenger “voted to allow state employees to double dip, collecting a pension and a pay check.” That’s a gross exaggeration. Hatch’s opponent, former state Sen. Dan Liljenquist, actually authored a bill in the state Senate …
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Posted in Spin Detectors Articles, The FactCheck Wire
Tagged Dan Liljenquist, Freedom Path, FreedomWorks, Orrin Hatch, Utah
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