Monthly Archives: August 2008

Pelosi and T. Boone Pickens

Posted on August 20, 2008

Q: Is Nancy Pelosi heavily invested in T. Boone Pickens' alternative energy company? A: No, but her husband bought stock in Clean Energy Fuels Corp. last year. It amounted to a tiny fraction of the couple's assets.

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Distorting McCain’s Remarks

Posted on August 19, 2008

Summary Obama’s campaign is running a TV ad in Indiana that asks the question: "How can John McCain fix the economy, when he doesn’t think it’s broken?" But the ad uses quotes from McCain that are old and taken out of context: The ad shows McCain saying, "I don’t believe …
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Saddleback Bloopers

Posted on August 18, 2008

  Summary At a nationally televised forum at a mega-church in Southern California, we found these misrepresentations: Obama claimed that "I worked with John McCain" on ethics legislation. In fact, the two worked together for barely a week, after which McCain accused Obama of "partisan posturing" and added, "I won’t …
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Obama in Berlin

Posted on August 15, 2008

Q: Did 200,000 people show up in Berlin for food, beer and a free concert and not to hear Obama’s speech? A: It’s possible that some people were there for those reasons, but there’s no way of knowing for sure. The lead singer of one of the bands says that …
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Distorting the DHL Deal

Posted on August 15, 2008

Summary Ads from the AFL-CIO and the Obama campaign claim that McCain is partly to blame for the loss of more than 8,000 jobs in Ohio. They paint a false picture. There's at least some truth in both ads: German-based DHL announced a deal that could result in 8,200 lost …
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The Truth About Tire Pressure

Posted on August 14, 2008

  Summary We are issuing a split decision in the Obama vs. McCain dispute over whether proper tire inflation could save as much oil as expanded offshore drilling is likely to produce. We find that proper tire inflation could save more than a billion gallons of fuel per year and …
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Waste Worries

Posted on August 14, 2008

Summary An Obama ad running in Nevada accuses McCain of favoring storage of waste from nuclear power plants at Yucca Mountain, which is the government plan, while not wanting the waste shipped through his home state of Arizona. The ad uses a clip of a 2007 interview of McCain, in …
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Troop Support for Candidates

Posted on August 13, 2008

Q: Did ABC News misrepresent which candidate troops in Iraq support, as a chain e-mail alleges? A: No. The e-mail is bogus, and the major general to which it is attributed says he never wrote 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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More Tax Deceptions

Posted on August 8, 2008 , Updated on August 12, 2008

Summary McCain released three new ads with multiple false and misleading claims about Obama's tax proposals. A TV spot claims Obama once voted for a tax increase "on people making just $42,000 a year." That's true for a single taxpayer, who would have seen a tax increase of $15 for …
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