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FactCheck Mailbag, Week of March 19-25.
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Author Archives: Viveca Novak
Sunday Replay
Sunday morning’s talkathons featured a few misstatements in a debate between Kentucky’s Senate contenders, and some confusion about debts and deficits. Kentucky Senate Candidates Debate "Fox News Sunday" hosted a debate between Kentucky Senate candidate Rand Paul, a Republican, and his Democratic opponent, Jack Conway. Paul’s statements about the …
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Posted in The FactCheck Wire
Tagged debt, deficit, Jack Conway, Rand Paul, sunday talk shows
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Sunday Replay
The talk shows’ factual failures included misinformation from Karl Rove (about write-in ballots in Alaska), from a former president (about college graduation rates and health in the U.S.) and from a current one (of Iran, about several topics). Rove’s Spelling Lesson Republican strategist Karl Rove overstated a legal barrier confronting …
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Posted in The FactCheck Wire
Tagged Bill Clinton, Jim DeMint, Karl Rove, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, sunday talk shows
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Sunday Replay
All of the misstatements that crept into the Sunday shows this weekend (at least, all the ones we found) had to do with the economy, the topic that is most on voters’ minds as the midterm elections approach. Beware the Third Rail White House Senior Adviser David Axelrod made an …
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Posted in The FactCheck Wire
Tagged Austan Goolsbee, David Axelrod, economy, jobs, John Boehner, Steny Hoyer, sunday talk shows
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Questions About the ‘Ground Zero Mosque’
Q: What are the facts about the proposed cultural center and mosque near New York’s former World Trade Center? A: We answer questions we’ve been asked most often by readers about the controversial project.
Posted in Ask FactCheck
Tagged Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, islamic cultural center, mosque, Park51, September 11
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No Pentagon Mosque
Q: Is there a mosque inside the Pentagon? A: The Pentagon has a non-denominational chapel that holds services for employees who follow various religions.
Nevada Blame Game
Republican Sharron Angle’s latest attack ad gets the facts about Nevada’s miserable economy right, but invites a questionable conclusion. The ad is called "Please Stop," and it mocks Democratic Sen. Harry Reid’s campaign slogan of "no one can do more" for Nevada. In the ad, Angle concedes that Reid "has …
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Posted in The FactCheck Wire
Tagged 2010 midterm elections, Harry Reid, Nevada, Sharron Angle
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Loans to Mobsters, Ties to BP? Kirk’s Attack Ads Go Too Far
Republican Rep. Mark Kirk is attacking his Democratic opponent in the Illinois race for the U.S. Senate with two ads that go beyond what the facts support. The ads make unsupported claims about the role Giannoulias played at his family’s troubled bank and strain to tie him to BP, among …
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Posted in The FactCheck Wire
Tagged 2010 elections, Alexi Giannoulias, BP, Broadway Bank, Illinois, lobbyists, Mark Kirk, oil spill
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Sunday Replay
Politicians didn’t take a holiday from false and misleading statements on July 4. We found misstatements on the Sunday talk shows that touched on Afghanistan, Michael Steele and immigration. A Firm Date for … What Exactly? On ABC’s "This Week," Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona made it sound as …
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Tagged afghanistan, illegal immigrants, Jim DeMint, John McCain, lindsey graham, Michael Steele, sunday talk shows
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Jerry Brown: ‘A Legacy of Failure?’
Republican Meg Whitman is making false claims about Democrat Jerry Brown’s “lifetime in politics” in an attack ad, her first TV spot of the general election campaign. The two are battling to become the next governor of California. The ad claims that “crime soared” while Brown was mayor of Oakland. That’s false. …
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