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Monthly Archives: October 2010
Chamber of Commerce and Missouri Senate Race
In episode 33 of our podcast, we talk about Democrats’ evidence-free allegation about the Chamber of Commerce and foreign money. Plus, we look at ads in the Missouri Senate race and explain why dead people got stimulus checks. [podcast]http://podcast.factcheck.org/FactCheckRadio_episode33.mp3[/podcast] For more on the stories discussed in this episode, see: Really? …
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Posted in FactCheck Radio
Tagged chamber of commerce, dead people, foreign money, podcast, Robin Carnahan, Roy Blunt, stimulus
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Bad Rap? Health Care Law Blamed for Sale of Catholic Hospitals
Republicans are claiming the new health care law is a “main reason” for the sale of three Catholic hospitals in Pennsylvania. And a conservative Catholic group is running a radio ad saying it is "the" reason. But the hospitals’ CEO says his words are being twisted and the new law …
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Posted in The FactCheck Wire
Tagged Catholic hospitals, catholicvote.org, health care, health care reform
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Toss-ups: Wayward Ads in Washington State
A Republican-leaning group, American Action Network, makes misleading claims in an ad portraying Democratic Sen. Patty Murray as pro-tax and anti-small business. Meanwhile, Murray goes too far in her attack on the complicated business …
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Posted in Articles
Tagged 2010 midterm elections, American Action Network, Dino Rossi, Patty Murray
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NRCC Overstates Dems’ Voting Record with Pelosi
A number of new TV ads by the National Republican Congressional Committee purport to tell us how often a Democratic incumbent voted with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. But the ads overstate …
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Posted in Articles
Tagged Ben Chandler, Betsy Markey, Jim Marshall, Lincoln Davis, Nancy Pelosi, Stephanie Herseth Sandlin
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Stimulating the Dead
Q: Were stimulus payments made to dead people and prison inmates? A: Yes, 89,000 of them, according to an official audit. About half of the $22 million was returned. The audit blamed both Congress and the Social Security Administration.
Would Miller ‘Destroy’ Alaska’s Economy?
In Alaska, a new group founded and financed by for-profit native corporations falsely charges in an ad that Republican Senate nominee Joe Miller’s proposals "would destroy a third of Alaska’s economy" by erasing "our fair share of federal dollars." A conservative, Miller advocates less federal spending — but he hasn’t …
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Posted in The FactCheck Wire
Tagged Alaskans Standing Together, Cash Attack, Joe Miller, Lisa Murkowski
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American Future Fund
Republican-leaning group formed by Iowa political figures.
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Kirk, Giannoulias Misstate Facts in Debate
The Illinois Senate candidates strayed from the facts on Sunday’s "Meet the Press," which featured a debate between Republican Mark Kirk, a House member, and Democrat Alexi Giannoulias, the state treasurer. Bridge Claims Go Nowhere Kirk exaggerated his role in combating the "bridge to nowhere," a name given interchangeably to …
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Stop the @#%! ‘Profanity’
Do "bleep" and "@#%!" count as low-down, shocking "profanity"? Michele Bachmann says they do. The GOP House member from Minnesota is claiming in a fundraising appeal to conservative donors that her Democratic election opponent, Tarryl Clark, released a "shocking, profanity-laced attack against me" and has thus reached "a new low." Here’s …
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FactCheck Mailbag, Week of Oct. 5-Oct. 11
This week, readers sent us comments about the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, left-leaning semantics, stimulus efficiency and FactCheck business cards. In the FactCheck Mailbag, we feature some of the e-mail we receive. Readers can send comments to editor@factcheck.org. Letters may be edited for length.
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