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2012 Players Guide
Monthly Archives: April 2012
PA Congressman Resorts to Smear Campaign
Rep. Tim Holden falsely claimed in a recent TV ad that his opponent won a multimillion-dollar lawsuit in exchange for campaign contributions to a corrupt judge. In fact, a jury — not the judge – awarded $3 million to lawyer Matt Cartwright’s client in that case. The Holden campaign told us …
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Immigration Inflation
An ad running in San Diego and on MSNBC claims immigration will cause a rise in U.S. population equal to that of the American West within 30 years. That’s not true. The increase is projected to be substantial, but nowhere near that high, even counting the children and grandchildren of …
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‘Death Panels’ Redux
Q: Did an emergency-room physician in a Tennessee hospital say the new health care law is currently denying dialysis to some Medicare patients, and will deny care to those over 75 in 2013? A: No. A spokesman for the hospital says the doctor never said the things attributed to her …
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Fouling Lugar’s Foe
The Republican primary for Sen. Richard Lugar’s seat is apparently too close for comfort. Both Lugar’s campaign and the American Action Network are airing misleading attack ads against Indiana Treasurer Richard Mourdock, the senator’s challenger for the nomination. The ads strain the facts to make Mourdock look like a tax …
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Tagged American Action Network, Richard Lugar, Richard Mourdock
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The Facts About ‘Fat Cats’
Even though we are serious-minded fact-checkers, we are not completely without humor, and MoveOn.org’s latest TV ad on “fat cats” and the “Buffett Rule” is pretty funny. But the ad may leave an im-purr-fect impression. One that’s off by more than a whisker. The TV ad says, “President Obama’s Buffett …
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Freedom Path
A conservative group with ties to the National Republican Senatorial Committee and former Nevada Sen. John Ensign.
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Posted in Players Guide 2012
Tagged Freedom Path, National Republican Senatorial Committee, Orrin Hatch
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FactCheck Mailbag, Week of April 10-16
This week, readers sent us letters about adjusting federal spending for inflation, and considering the need for costly regulations. In the FactCheck Mailbag, we feature some of the email we receive. Readers can send comments to editor@factcheck.org. Letters may be edited for length.
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What Priorities USA Action Doesn’t Tell You
A pro-Obama super PAC’s new TV ad portrays Mitt Romney as a past and future threat to middle-class families. The statements it makes about Romney’s business dealings and tax proposals contain some truth — but don’t tell the whole story: The ad says Romney is proposing “a huge new $150,000 …
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