Author Archives: Lori Robertson

Oil Spill Claims and the New Mexico Governor’s Race

Posted on June 25, 2010

In episode 17 of FactCheck Radio, we look at false and misleading oil spill claims from both Republicans and Democrats. Also, we talk about the New Mexico gubernatorial race and debunk an ad from Democrat Diane Denish, attacking Republican Susana Martinez. (Click the play button below to listen to the …
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Sunday Replay

Posted on June 21, 2010

The Father’s Day political talk shows contained a stretch here, an exaggeration there, misimpressions left everywhere. Here’s what we found. All Studies Don’t Agree On CNN’s "State of the Union," Sen. Joe Lieberman, an Independent, bragged about the supposed benefits of the climate-change bill he has introduced with Democratic Sen. …
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Whatz Up, Whatz Up With the ‘Whoomp’ Video?

Posted on June 10, 2010

We don’t usually hit up gossip site Gawker for our fact-checking. We’re an academic group, and we’re serious and stuff! But we can’t ignore the site’s set-up and take-down of one of the weirder Internet rumors we’ve ever seen. As most of the Internet knows by now, Gawker both popularized …
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Arizona and Prison Spas

Posted on June 4, 2010

In episode 14 of FactCheck Radio, we take a look at the controversial Arizona immigration law. We also examine an ad from Nevada that claims a Senate candidate supported Scientology-sponsored saunas and massage treatments in prisons. (Click the play button below to listen to the podcast. Or subscribe to the podcast …
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Arizona’s ‘Papers Please’ Law

Posted on June 3, 2010 , Corrected on July 30, 2010

We’ll leave it to others to decide whether Arizona’s new immigration law is a good thing or a bad thing — but here we try to straighten out some of the confusing factual claims. First, a quick summary. Contrary to what the law’s defenders often say, the new statute does more than merely mirror federal law. For example …
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“Dhimmitude” and the Muslim Exemption

Posted on May 20, 2010

Q: Will Muslim Americans be exempt from the mandate to have health insurance? A: The Muslim faith does not forbid purchasing health insurance, and no Muslim group has ever been considered exempt under the definitions used in the health care law.

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Day of Prayer Proclamation, Right on Schedule

Posted on May 3, 2010 , Corrected on May 4, 2010

On April 29, we wrote that there was no evidence that President Obama would cancel the National Day of Prayer and that, in fact, the White House had announced plans to recognize it. Still, we received skeptical e-mails over the weekend from people who had heard a recycled rumor claiming …
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Blackwell Blasts FactCheck

Posted on April 30, 2010

In an interview on "The Daily Show," Family Research Council fellow Ken Blackwell disagreed with host Jon Stewart about whether the Obama administration has an unprecedented number of "czars." (This is part two of the interview, available only online.) Stewart: Not all the so-called czars were appointed by Obama, and …
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Mis-Tweeting in the News

Posted on April 29, 2010

In light of our article yesterday about false and misleading political claims on Twitter, we found this story on media mis-tweetment amusing: Mediaite.com: Just after 9:30 @ABCWorldNews twittered this: BREAKING: President Obama will name Elena Kagan his nominee for the Supreme Court, @jaketapper reports. As you will see, he did …
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More Malarkey About Health Care

Posted on April 19, 2010

We’ve seldom seen a piece of legislation so widely misrepresented, and misunderstood, as the new health care law. We stopped counting the number of articles and items we turned out on the subject after the total reached 100. Some of that is understandable. The debate went on for more than …
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