-
-
Viral Spiral
FactCheck Mailbag
FactCheck Mailbag, Week of March 19-25.
See letters from previous weeks“ Criticizing the Democrats for citing the only available study on gun purchases for its age seems wide of the target. ” -
-
2012 Players Guide
Author Archives: Lori Robertson
Taxes, Bailouts, Court Fights and More
Looking for some weekend reading material? Well, the past week has been busy at FactCheck.org. If you haven’t checked out the main site recently, here are several new articles that we hadn’t yet told our Wire readers about: Right Change Is Wrong October 24, 2008 A conservative group misleads voters …
More >>
More Health Care Exaggerations
Planned Parenthood is distributing a mailer in Ohio that criticizes Sen. John McCain’s health care plan. But it uses a bogus figure on what McCain’s plan would do to Ohioans’ taxes. The mailer says, “I see struggling patients every day. That’s why I was so horrified when I read about …
More >>
Posted in The FactCheck Wire
Tagged direct mail, health care, John McCain, Planned Parenthood, TV ad, UAW
Comments Off
Unions Mislead on Health Care
Summary Two labor unions are running ads falsely characterizing McCain’s health care plan. A United Auto Workers spot features a woman who claims she’d pay up to $2,800 more in taxes. That’s a bogus figure, based on a false assumption about what McCain is actually proposing. She and families like …
More >>
Posted in Articles
Tagged health care, John McCain, Service Employees International Union, United Auto Workers
Comments Off
Obama on Taxes
Obama said that “I want to provide a tax cut for 95 percent of working Americans.” He also said the cut would go to “95 percent of families.” The latter is correct. The Urban Institute-Brookings Tax Policy Center analyzed the two candidates’ tax plans and found Obama’s would cut taxes …
More >>
$42,000 a year
McCain has claimed yet again that Sen. Obama “voted twice for a budget resolution to increase taxes on individuals making $42,000 a year.” As we’ve reported, a single taxpayer making more than $41,500 would have seen a tax increase, but a couple filing jointly would have seen no increase unless …
More >>
Health Care Spin
An Obama-Biden TV ad says Sen. John McCain’s health care plan would be the “largest middle-class tax increase in history.” A McCain-Palin/RNC radio ad says Obama’s plan “will rob 50 million employees of their health coverage.” Both are false. We lay out the details of each candidate’s health care plans …
More >>
Posted in The FactCheck Wire
Comments Off
FactChecking Debate No. 2
We published several tidbits here on The Wire during last night’s presidential debate. Our full article contains a few more misleading statements and falsehoods that we needed a little more time to research. Check it out on our main site: FactChecking Debate No. 2 October 8, 2008 Nonsense in Nashville
Posted in The FactCheck Wire
Comments Off
