Monthly Archives: May 2012

Romney’s ‘Gross’ Exaggeration on ‘Obamacare’

Posted on May 10, 2012

Mitt Romney falsely claims government will “constitute … almost 50 percent” of the U.S. economy when the new federal health care law takes full effect. But Romney gets to 50 percent by erroneously counting all health care spending — private and public — as “effectively under government control once Obamacare …
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FactCheck Mailbag, Week of May 1-7

Posted on May 9, 2012

This week, readers sent us letters congratulating us on our Webby wins for best politics website. 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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‘The Life of Julia,’ Corrected

Posted on May 8, 2012

The Obama campaign depends on some false or dubious assumptions in its “Life of Julia” slide show. The infographic depicts a fictional woman whose life from age 3 to 67 is better under the president’s policies than under those of Republican Mitt Romney. But in reality …
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Obama Criminalize Free Speech?

Posted on May 7, 2012

Q: Did President Obama secretly sign a law that makes it a crime to protest against him or ask him a question he doesn’t like? A: No. He openly announced the signing of a bill overwhelmingly passed by Congress that slightly revises a 1971 law against trespassing into areas under …
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Spotlight On: Mark DiBiasio

Posted on May 4, 2012

Mark DiBiasio is a registered Republican in North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District, which means his mailbox is brimming with campaign mailers. Ten Republicans are trying to win the May 8 primary this year. But one particular candidate, wealthy businessman and former state Sen. Robert Pittenger, is bombarding voters with glossy …
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Primary Piffle in North Carolina

Posted on May 4, 2012

In the final week of a hotly fought Republican primary in North Carolina, one congressional candidate accuses his rival — in a mailer sent to GOP voters — of being a “Big Money Donor” to Democrats. And he accuses another of breaking a tax pledge. But we find both claims by …
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May 4: Stimulus, Women’s Health, Webby Awards

Posted on May 4, 2012
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White House Spins Women’s Health

Posted on May 2, 2012

Republicans are right: The White House is greatly exaggerating when it says that “women, in particular,” benefit from a prevention fund that the House GOP proposes to repeal. The truth is that the fund in question wasn’t set up specifically for women’s health programs, and we could find no concrete …
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Stimulus Money for Jobs Overseas?

Posted on May 2, 2012

An ad from the conservative Americans for Prosperity distorts the truth about stimulus money for “green jobs” going overseas. The ad, titled “Wasteful Spending,” introduces some new wrinkles to this well-used line of attack. According to the ad, the stimulus included: “$1.2 billion to a solar company that’s building a …
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A New Front in the ‘War on Women’

Posted on May 1, 2012

Mitt Romney’s senior adviser Ed Gillespie distorted some economic facts on “Meet the Press” when he accused President Obama of creating a U.S. economy that is “hostile” to women. Gillespie said the “number of single-mother families living in poverty” is now the highest “in recorded history.” But poverty statistics date …
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