Monthly Archives: September 2008

Biden, FDR and the Invention of Television

Posted on September 24, 2008

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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‘Born Alive’ Baloney

Posted on September 24, 2008

Summary A anti-abortion group is running an ad featuring a woman who says she survived a failed abortion and that "if Barack Obama had his way, I wouldn't be here." She's wrong. If she'd been born in Illinois, Illinois law would have protected her with or without the "born alive" …
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Palin Charging Victims for Rape Kits?

Posted on September 24, 2008

Q: Did Sarah Palin make rape victims pay for their own rape kits? A: Palin's police chief in Wasilla did that. Whether Palin supported this is not certain.

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Biden’s “Patriotic Act”

Posted on September 23, 2008

 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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Guilt and Associations

Posted on September 23, 2008

Summary A McCain-Palin ad says that Obama was "born of the corrupt Chicago political machine" and implies that the candidate himself is corrupt by association with four local political figures. But the ad’s implication and many of its supporting details are false. In fact, this is a particularly egregious example …
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Health Care and Handguns

Posted on September 23, 2008

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

Posted on September 23, 2008

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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NRA Targets Obama

Posted on September 22, 2008 , Updated on September 29, 2008

Summary A National Rifle Association advertising campaign distorts Obama's position on gun control beyond recognition. The NRA is circulating printed material and running TV ads making unsubstantiated claims that Obama plans to ban use of firearms for home defense, ban possession and manufacture of handguns, close 90 percent of gun …
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Happy Fall!

Posted on September 22, 2008

 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

Posted on September 22, 2008

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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