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2012 Players Guide
Monthly Archives: October 2010
60 Plus Association
Republican-leaning group that calls itself “the conservative alternative” to AARP.
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Posted in Players Guide
Tagged 60 Plus Association, Cash Attack, James L. Martin, Players Guide
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Toss-ups: Missouri Mudslinging
Ethics has become a theme in the Missouri Senate race, and we find that both candidates are distorting the facts in TV ads that make accusations of serious ethical lapses: Republican Rep. Roy Blunt claims without evidence that Democrat Robin Carnahan’s …
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Posted in Articles
Tagged Missouri Senate race, Robin Carnahan, Roy Blunt, stimulus, toss-ups
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Sunday Replay
Pity the poor politicians and spinmeisters who had to don suits in the middle of a long weekend and populate the talk shows. They were up to their usual tricks, though: One Republican operative wrongly implied a crime by the White House; several guests talked about the debt or deficit …
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Posted in The FactCheck Wire
Tagged Debbie Wasserman Schultz, debt, deficit, Ed Gillespie, foreclosures, Mark Kirk, sunday talk shows
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A New Twist on an Old Tax Attack
Democrats and their allies can’t get enough of the Americans for Tax Reform tax pledge — which, as we’ve reported, they’ve falsely equated in a number of ads with “protecting tax loopholes for companies that ship jobs overseas.” Still, Democrats continue …
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Posted in Articles
Tagged Bill Owens, Charlie Baker, Chris Murphy, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Denny Heck, Frank Kratovil
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Angle’s Shocking – and Misleading – Viagra Claim
A new ad from Nevada Republican Senate candidate Sharron Angle says that Angle’s opponent, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, "voted to use taxpayer dollars to pay for Viagra for convicted child molesters and sex offenders." That sensational claim hasn’t gotten any more true since the first time we addressed it, …
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Posted in The FactCheck Wire
Tagged 2010 midterm elections, Harry Reid, Nevada, Sharron Angle, Viagra
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The Chamber and Foreign Contributions
Q: Is illegal foreign money being filtered through the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to fund ads attacking Democrats? A: The chamber says dues money paid by overseas companies "is not used for political ads," but won’t discuss how it segregates those funds. Democratic and liberal groups want an investigation of …
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Posted in Ask FactCheck
Tagged 2010 midterm elections, chamber of commerce, foreign money
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Alaska and West Virginia Senate Races, and Health Care
In episode 32 of our podcast, we look at ads in the Alaska and West Virginia Senate races, and we debunk bogus claims about the health care law — again. [podcast]http://podcast.factcheck.org/FactCheckRadio_episode32.mp3[/podcast] For more on the stories discussed in this episode, see: Murkowski vs. Tea Party, Round 2 Oct. 6 Pataki's …
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Posted in FactCheck Radio
Tagged FactCheck Radio, health care, Joe Manchin, John Raese, Lisa Murkowski, podcast, Revere America, Tea Party Express
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Grayson Gets It Right
After two false ads, Democratic Rep. Alan Grayson of Florida finally gets it right. Grayson, whom we criticized for twisting the words of his opponent in a TV ad called "Taliban Dan," released a new ad Oct. 6 called "The Facts" and invited the media to review it. We did. …
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Public Notice (Bankrupting America)
Conservative-leaning group that focuses on federal spending.
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Posted in Players Guide
Tagged Bankrupting America, Cash Attack, Gretchen Hamel, Players Guide, Public Notice
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