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Fake Lobbyists & Tax Deception
Week of August 14, 2008 All three ads show off pretty pictures, but leave the facts on the cutting room floor.
Did McCain lift his cross-in-the-sand anecdote from Solzhenitsyn's "Gulag Archipelago"?
There's no such story in "Archipelago." There is a somewhat similar story attributed to Solzhenitsyn, which we've traced back to Rev. Billy Graham by way of former Richard Nixon aide Charles Colson. But that's not proof that McCain's story isn't true.
That Chain E-mail Your Friend Sent to You Is (Likely) Bogus. Seriously.
by Lori Robertson
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Distorting McCain's Remarks
August 19, 2008
An Obama ad uses dated and out of context quotes to portray McCain as clueless on the economy.
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Saddleback Bloopers
August 18, 2008
Obama makes misleading claims about ethics legislation and abortion at a church-sponsored forum. McCain exaggerates his tax-cut proposals.
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Distorting the DHL Deal
August 15, 2008
An AFL-CIO flier and Obama campaign ads say that McCain cost Ohioans 8,000 jobs. We say that's a distortion of the record.
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The Truth About Tire Pressure
August 14, 2008
Motorists could save more than 1 billion gallons of fuel a year, right now. But expanded offshore drilling would eventually produce even more.
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Waste Worries
August 14, 2008
Obama ad accuses McCain of nuclear NIMBY-ness in Nevada. We supply context.
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Not Pictured Here
August 12, 2008
The people in suits shown with McCain in an Obama ad are not lobbyists, as the narrator implies.
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More Tax Deceptions
August 8, 2008
McCain misrepresents Obama's tax proposals again. And again, and again.
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Wind Power Puffery
August 8, 2008
McCain's new ad touts "renewable energy," but his energy plan offers little to support it.
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Obama's Overstatement
August 4, 2008
An Obama ad says McCain's campaign got $2 million from "Big Oil." The total is actually $1.3 million.
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Bluegrass Gasoline Blues
August 4, 2008
Mitch McConnell's ad casts his Senate challenger as a villain behind high fuel prices, a big exaggeration.
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Obama's Celebrity Cred
July 30, 2008
A new McCain ad calls Obama a celebrity (true) who says he'll raise taxes on electricity (false).
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Snubbing Wounded Troops?
July 28, 2008
A McCain TV spot falsely insinuates that Obama canceled his visit because "the Pentagon wouldn't allow him to bring cameras."
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