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FactCheck Mailbag, Week of May 7-13.
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2012 Players Guide
The Whoppers of 2008
In an effort to preemptively fact-check what the candidates may say in the debates, we present: The Whoppers of 2008. So far, anyway. There are more than five weeks to go before Election Day. McCain misrepresents Obama’s tax plan. Obama misleads seniors on McCain and Social Security. Other falsehoods involve …
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Credit Where it Isn’t Due
The McCain-Palin campaign is running a series of upbeat ads designed to appeal to workers in three states (Michigan, Ohio, and New Mexico – for some reason the New Mexico ad isn’t on McCain’s YouTube channel, but it sounds pretty much like the Ohio one). Sometimes even upbeat ads need …
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Tagged alternative energy, economy, energy, environment, jobs, John McCain
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Biden, FDR and the Invention of Television
In a sit-down interview with CBS Evening News’ Katie Couric that aired Sept. 22, Sen. Joe Biden tried to make a historical comparison between political leadership during the trying economic times of today and yesterday. But he got some of his history wrong. Biden told Couric: “When the stock market crashed, …
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Biden’s “Patriotic Act”
A recent McCain-Palin ad titled “Patriotic Act” puts a new twist on some old false claims, then adds a misleading implication, just for good measure. Here’s the ad: We can start with a list of what the ad does get right: Joe Biden did indeed say that paying taxes is …
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Health Care and Handguns
What do these two things have in common? Not much, except that we published two stories on the topics Monday evening at factcheck.org. First, we looked at an Obama-Biden ad that took McCain’s words on his health care plan and banking regulation out of context: Out of Context on Health …
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Chicago Cronies
Have you seen that McCain-Palin ad linking Obama to scary, corrupt Chicago powerbrokers? Well, it’s pretty misleading. Outright false in its implication in fact. See our article on factcheck.org for more on where the ad goes wrong: Guilt and Associations September 22, 2008
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Happy Fall!
It’s officially here today. Or it was as of 15:43 GMT (that’s 11:43 a.m., if you’re on the East Coast). While you were (we hope) enjoying the last weekend of summer, we here at factcheck.org were still on the case. On Friday over at our main site, we wrote all …
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Just the Facts, Home(page) Makeover
We’ve given our Just the Facts! page a bit of a face lift. Be sure to check it out. And don’t forget to tune in every Friday for Emi Kolawole’s weekly vidcast. This week Emi covers school funding, energy policy, Jerome Corsi and war wounds. There’s even some time left …
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McCain’s cloudy crystal ball
Confused about whether John McCain really predicted the fall of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac? We don’t blame you. The McCain-Palin campaign says he did, and as proof, they point to a 2006 speech in which McCain exhorts his colleagues to vote for legislation he cosponsored, legislation that would have …
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