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FactCheck Mailbag, Week of March 19-25.
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Monthly Archives: March 2012
How Many Would Repeal ‘Obamacare’?
Mitt Romney says “most Americans want to get rid of” President Obama’s two-year-old health care law. Is he right? That depends on which poll-taker is asking the question, and how it’s worded. Romney made the assertion at a rally in Louisiana on March 23, marking the second anniversary of the …
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Car + Ditch=Blame
We’ve already written about the 17-minute Obama campaign film. But did you notice how narrator Tom Hanks portrays the president as being above finger-pointing politics, claiming Obama “would not dwell in blame” for inheriting a huge economic mess? We did. Hanks, “The Road We’ve Traveled”: Not since the days of …
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FactCheck Mailbag, Week of March 13-19
This week, readers sent us letters questioning a comparison of false statements made by Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney, and our decision to write about a quote President Obama attributed to former President Rutherford B. Hayes. In the FactCheck Mailbag, we feature some of the email we receive. Readers can …
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Romney Flubs Farmers Claim
Mitt Romney claims the Obama administration is telling farmers “what their 15-year-old sons and daughters can and can’t do on the family farm.” That’s not true. If anything, the Labor Department was considering telling farmers what their children can and cannot do on farms that others own or operate. And …
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Obama ‘Road’ Film Takes Some Detours
An Obama campaign film, narrated by actor Tom Hanks, casts the president, not surprisingly, in the best light. But the 17-minute video lacks context and take liberties with some facts on health care and the auto bailout: The film says …
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Santorum: English Before Statehood
Rick Santorum greatly overreached when he claimed that Congress required ”English be the principal language and that it be taught and spoken universally” in several Southwest territories, Oklahoma and Hawaii as preconditions for them attaining statehood. Congress did require in some cases that new states conduct government business in English, or …
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