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Tag Archives: Barack Obama
Corsi’s Dull Hatchet
Posted on September 15, 2008
Summary Despite its place near the top of The New York Times’ nonfiction bestseller list, where it has been riding high for the past six weeks, Jerome Corsi’s "The Obama Nation" is not a reliable source of facts about Obama. Corsi cites opinion columns and unsourced, anonymous blogs as if …
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Have You Looked At Obama’s “Not Exactlys?”
Posted on September 12, 2008
Not exactly. Actually, we’ve looked at it rather a lot. We just haven’t written about it. Until now. You surely know the e-mail we’re talking about. It’s one of the more popular chain e-mails that our readers keep sending our way. You know, the one that starts out with Selma …
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Posted in The FactCheck Wire
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Tagged Barack Obama, chain e-mail, Internet rumors, snopes, Snopes.com
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School Funding Misleads
Posted on September 11, 2008
Summary A new Obama-Biden ad includes misleading claims about McCain and education spending: It says McCain "voted to cut education funding" and lists five votes. But one was a vote for increased education funding, although for fewer dollars than what Democrats may have wanted. And three others were votes against …
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Belittling Palin?
Posted on September 11, 2008 , Updated on September 12, 2008
Summary The McCain-Palin campaign has released a new TV ad that distorts quotes from the Obama campaign. It takes words out of context to make it sound as though the Democratic ticket is belittling Palin: The ad says "they said she was doing ‘what she was told.’ " But the …
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McCain-Palin Distorts Our Finding
Posted on September 10, 2008 , Updated on September 10, 2008
Summary A McCain-Palin ad has FactCheck.org calling Obama’s attacks on Palin "completely false" and "misleading." That’s what we said, but it wasn’t about Obama. Our article criticized anonymous e-mail falsehoods and bogus claims about Palin posted around the Internet. We have no evidence that any of the claims we found …
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Off Base on Sex Ed
Posted on September 10, 2008 , Updated on September 18, 2008
Summary A McCain-Palin campaign ad claims Obama’s "one accomplishment" in the area of education was "legislation to teach comprehensive sex education’ to kindergarteners." But the claim is simply false, and it dates back to Alan Keyes’ failed race against Obama for an open Senate seat in 2004. Obama, contrary to …
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Pigs and Pit Bulls
Posted on September 10, 2008
The McCain camp has put out a Web ad painting Obama as “ready to smear.” McCain ad, “Lipstick” [Title: Sarah Palin on: Sarah Palin] Palin: Do you know they say, the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull? Lipstick. [Title: Barack Obama on: Sarah Palin] Obama: But you …
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Obama’s Iraqi Accounting Oversight
Posted on September 9, 2008
Fox News commentator Bill O’Reilly conducted a sit-down interview with Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama that is airing in four installments. (Parts three and four of the interview will air tonight and tomorrow night.) The first segment was broadcast Thursday, and we noticed an accounting error on Obama’s part. When …
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Posted in The FactCheck Wire
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Tagged Barack Obama, Bill O'Reilly, economy, Iraq, Iraq surplus
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Health Care Hyperbole
Posted on September 9, 2008
Obviously, Obama and McCain don’t see eye-to-eye on health care, and their plans are markedly different. But we’ve heard Obama misrepresenting some aspects of McCain’s proposal in stump speeches. On Aug. 21 in Chester, Va., he said: Obama, Aug. 21: John McCain doesn’t have a health care plan other than …
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Maverick Misleads
Posted on September 4, 2008
Summary McCain's campaign launched a TV ad touting his running mate, Palin, and offering a comparison to Obama. Some of its claims are off the mark: It says Obama "gave big oil billions in subsidies and giveaways," citing his votes for a 2005 energy bill. But the bill slightly raised …
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