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Obama’s Creative Clippings Part Deux

Posted on January 17, 2008 , Corrected on January 17, 2008

Summary The Obama campaign’s new ad uses an old trick and takes quotes from newspapers out of context. Once again, the campaign uses a quote from a news story to say Obama’s health plan would offer universal coverage. But the full article points out that his plan "does not guarantee" …
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Short Ads, Even Shorter on the Facts

Posted on January 16, 2008

Summary Two recent ads by the Edwards campaign are quick and to the point, but they miss the mark. One claims that Edwards is the "only" Democrat who "beats" the leading Republican contenders in "the recent" CNN poll. Actually, Edwards wasn’t even included in the most recent CNN poll; the …
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Stacking the Deck

Posted on January 16, 2008

Summary The three leading Democratic presidential candidates debated in Las Vegas and we noted the following: Clinton once again mischaracterized the 2005 energy bill, saying it had "enormous giveaways" to oil and gas companies. In truth, the measure raised taxes on those industries. Obama accused the Bush administration of failing …
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McCain’s Misleading Mailer

Posted on January 15, 2008

Summary McCain is sending out a postcard mailing in South Carolina that is misleading on more than one point. It says that "Romney provided taxpayer-funded abortions," a distortion. Romney’s Massachusetts health-care plan faced a court order requiring abortions to be covered. It says Romney "refused to endorse Bush Tax Cut …
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Myrtle Beach Blarney

Posted on January 11, 2008

Summary Another debate, another round of fact-checking. The GOP meeting in South Carolina was the third for Republican candidates in a week, but they haven’t run out of exaggerations or misstatements: Romney claimed Massachusetts gained jobs "every single month" he was governor after hitting a low point. In fact the …
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Sliming Obama

Posted on January 10, 2008 , Corrected on January 11, 2008

Summary If these two nasty e-mail messages are any indication, the 2008 presidential campaign is becoming a very dirty one. One claims that Obama is "certainly a racist" by virtue of belonging to Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ, which it says "will accept only black parishoners" and espouses a …
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One-Two Punch for GOP

Posted on January 7, 2008 , Corrected on January 8, 2008

Summary In the final debate before New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation primary election, five Republican candidates appeared on Fox News. We found no shortage of recycled bunk, and a new twist or two: Huckabee repeated his claim to have made 94 tax cuts including the "first broad-based tax cut" in the history …
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N.H. Debate: The Dems’ Turn

Posted on January 6, 2008 , Updated on January 8, 2008 , Corrected on January 8, 2008

Summary During the Democratic portion of the Jan. 5 New Hampshire debate: Obama claimed we are "back where we started two years ago" in Iraq. Actually, all indicators of violence show dramatic improvement compared with two years ago. Clinton repeated a misleading claim that the 2005 energy bill was "larded …
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N.H. Debate: The GOP Field

Posted on January 6, 2008 , Updated on October 21, 2009

Summary Republican and Democratic candidates participated in double-header debates in New Hampshire Jan. 5 in advance of the state's first-in-the-nation primary. Republicans were up first, and they got a little wild with their swings: Romney claimed that the 47 million Americans who lack health care are not covered because they …
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Huckabee’s Attack Ad Runs After All

Posted on January 3, 2008 , Updated on January 4, 2008

 Summary The ad Huckabee said he decided not to run has now appeared at least three times in Iowa anyway. It accuses Romney of being "dishonest" but shades the facts in the process. Update, Jan. 4: The ad ran at least 10 times on four different stations in Davenport and …
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