Monthly Archives: October 2008

FactCheck’s Most Wanted

Posted on October 21, 2008

Enthusiastic truth-seekers (and angry partisans) have been inundating us with questions this election cycle. We’re thrilled to be your go-to guys, but sometimes the rumors take a long time to untangle — the truth is rarely straightforward enough to fit neatly into an ad, a sound bite or a chain e-mail. …
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$700 Billion Blame Game

Posted on October 21, 2008

Summary We find House and Senate campaigns are taking liberties with the facts as they seek to assign blame for the nation’s financial mess. A Democratic ad in Kentucky accuses Republican Senate Leader McConnell of conduct bordering on the criminal, but falsely accuses him of taking $4.4 million from "big …
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Obama’s False Medicare Claim

Posted on October 20, 2008 , Updated on October 21, 2008

Summary In a TV ad and in speeches, Obama is making bogus claims that McCain plans to cut $880 billion from Medicare spending and to reduce benefits. A TV spot says McCain’s plan requires "cuts in benefits, eligibility or both." Obama said in a speech that McCain plans "cuts" that …
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Robo-attacks

Posted on October 20, 2008

Late last week Huffington Post broke the news that a massive robo-call campaign linking Obama and former Weather Underground activist Bill Ayers was targeting voters in numerous states, including Ohio, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Maine. Paid for by the McCain-Palin campaign and the Republican National Committee, the call tells listeners that …
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Scaring, and Misleading, Seniors Again

Posted on October 20, 2008

In what is becoming a bit of a pattern, a group that backs Sen. Barack Obama is trying to convince senior citizens that Sen. John McCain would be their worst nightmare. The AFL-CIO is distributing a mailer that claims McCain is “turning his back on retirees,” by “privatizing Social Security, …
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Health Care Premium Costs

Posted on October 20, 2008

In last week’s final debate, Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama cited greatly different estimates for the average cost of health insurance, and a number of readers have asked us to sort it out. Obama: By the way, the average policy costs about $12,000. … McCain: The average cost of …
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Anne Kilkenny’s Sarah Palin E-Mail

Posted on October 20, 2008

Q:What about that Anne Kilkenny e-mail? A:The facts in the e-mail message about Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin are mostly correct.

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100 Percent Negative?

Posted on October 18, 2008

Sen. Obama was somewhat misleading when he claimed 100 percent of Sen. McCain ad’s were negative. His claim is backed up only in so far as it regards a single week examined by the Wisconsin Advertising Project of the University of Wisconsin. In an Oct. 8 report, they concluded that, …
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ACORN Accusations

Posted on October 18, 2008 , Updated on October 21, 2008

Summary The McCain-Palin campaign accuses ACORN, a community activist group that operates nationwide, of perpetrating "massive voter fraud." It says Obama has “long and deep” ties to the group. We find both claims to be exaggerated. But we also find Obama has understated the extent of his work with the …
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Autism and Down Syndrome

Posted on October 18, 2008

Scores of readers have written in asking why Sen. John McCain had said several times during the debate that his running mate, Sarah Palin, knew about autism. McCain: And, by the way, she also understands special-needs families. She understands that autism is on the rise, that we’ve got to find …
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