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Author Archives: Joe Miller
Not Just the Facts
Here at FactCheck.org, we’re always excited to see news organizations devoting time to fact-checking. So we were pleased to see that the Associated Press had decided to fact-check Sarah Palin’s new memoir, "Going Rogue." Putting 11 reporters on the task strikes us as overkill, but that might just be because …
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TGIF
President Obama’s unexpected Nobel Peace Prize may end up being the story of the week, but it was the third-party groups that occupied most of our attention here at FactCheck.org. Once again, health care dominated the discussion, though we also saw some new ads on taxes and on climate change. …
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Posted in The FactCheck Wire
Tagged Americans for Prosperity, cap-and-trade, health care, Health Care for America Now, health insurance, medicare, special election
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Thirty Million Uninsured
One of the items we noted in our Sept. 10 wrap-up of President Barack Obama’s televised prime-time address to Congress was his carefully worded estimate of the number of uninsured citizens. Obama, Sept. 9: There are now more than 30 million American citizens who cannot get coverage. We said that …
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Chinese Flag
Q: Will the White House be flying the Chinese flag on Sept. 20 to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China? A: No. The flag will fly at the Ellipse, across the street from the White House. The Chinese flag has flown on White …
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Posted in Ask FactCheck
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Boustany’s Response
Barack Obama wasn’t the only person misstating health care facts during prime time on Sept. 9. Louisiana Rep. Charles Boustany delivered the Republican response to Obama’s speech. We found a couple of factual flaws. Bureaucracies vs. Bureaucrats Boustany exaggerated when he stated that the Democrats’ bill "created 53 new bureaucracies." …
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RSS Feed
Those of you who follow FactCheck.org via RSS may have noticed some temporary glitches with the feed last night. Indeed, several of our more observant readers wrote to us to let us know that our feed was apparently redirecting to a squatter site. We apologize for the mix up. The …
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Posted in Special Reports
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Obama and Kenya. Again.
We’ve burned through rather a lot of pixels combating the claims of those who deny that Barack Obama is eligible to be president of the United States. He is, by virtue of having been born in Hawaii, as attested to repeatedly by state officials and even by the flagship of …
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Posted in The FactCheck Wire
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Health Care and the “One Way Hash”
Here at FactCheck.org, we like to complicate things. The statement isn’t meant to be (entirely) a flippant one. It really is true that a lot of what we do here is to take what appear to be pretty simple claims and show that the reality is far more complicated than …
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TGIF
August traditionally may be a slow news month in the nation’s capital, but the bogus claims have continued to fly in the final full week of meteorological summer. This week, we’ve written about health care, health care and, oh yeah, more health care. An article from Aug. 21 addresses abortion …
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