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Tag Archives: David Axelrod
Axelrod’s Hazy Memory of 2008
David Axelrod’s zeal to help President Obama win reelection has clouded his memory. In depicting the 2012 GOP primary as unusually nasty and harmful to the party’s eventual nominee, Obama’s senior campaign adviser falsely claimed “we mentioned Hillary Clinton twice in our advertising” during the 2008 campaign. With little effort, …
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Axelrod Ups the Ante
President Barack Obama’s reelection strategist David Axelrod said on CNN’s “State of the Union” Oct. 30 that “all economists agree” that the White House jobs bill “would create millions of jobs.” That goes beyond the usual White House exaggeration, and is simply not true. Axelrod, Oct. 30: Obviously the American …
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Sunday Replay
Surprisingly – considering that the topic du jour was taxes, which means numbers – the flubs and fibs on the Dec. 12 talk shows were few, and relatively minor. Not So Out-of-Context On "Meet the Press," the chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, Austan Goolsbee, claimed host …
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Tagged Austan Goolsbee, David Axelrod, sunday talk shows, taxes
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Earmarks, Taxes and Premium Hikes
In episode 38 of our podcast, we highlight false statements from Democrats on the Sunday talk shows, and exaggerations from Republicans about the impact of the new health care law on premiums. [podcast]http://factcheck.org/Images/image/radio/FactCheckRadio_episode38.mp3[/podcast] For more on the stories discussed in this episode, see: Sunday Replay Nov. 15 The Truth About …
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Tagged David Axelrod, earmarks, health care reform, John Boehner, Mark Warner, middle class, Mitch McConnell, podcast, premiums
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Sunday Replay
Americans are worried about money – the government’s as well as their own – and the Sunday talk shows reflected that concern. We had a few bones to pick with their guests when it came to discussion of earmarks, the housing market and Social Security. And however one defines that …
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Tagged Alan Greenspan, David Axelrod, earmarks, housing market, Kent Conrad, Mark Warner, middle class, Social Security
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Sunday Replay
On this week’s Sunday talk shows, we found false claims on the debt, discretionary spending, foreign-funded attack ads and polling data. Wrong on Debt On ABC’s "This Week," Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell made a false claim about the federal debt — a claim that we debunked in January, when …
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Tagged Amtrak, David Axelrod, debt, Dick Durbin, discretionary spending, Kevin McCarthy, Marco Rubio, Mitch McConnell, 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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Tagged Austan Goolsbee, David Axelrod, economy, jobs, John Boehner, Steny Hoyer, sunday talk shows
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Sunday Replay
Call this one the Axelrod Edition. President Obama’s senior adviser, David Axelrod, was on three of the political talk shows on July 11, and we found that he strayed from the factual straight-and-narrow several times in talking about the oil spill, border security and other issues. We also found Republican …
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Tagged Arizona immigration law, BP, Brian Bilbray, David Axelrod, dinosaurs, Eric Holder, immigration, oil spill, Sharron Angle, terrorism
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