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FactCheck Mailbag
FactCheck Mailbag, Week of May 1-7.
See letters from previous weeks“ Keep up the good and unbiased work -- especially this year with the upcoming elections. ” Viral Spiral
Tag Archives: debt
Durbin’s Debt Problem
Sen. Dick Durbin incorrectly claimed that the U.S. borrows money "primarily from China" to fund the federal government. China owns about 8 percent of the total U.S. debt. The Illinois Democrat made the claim during a June 19 interview on NBC's "Meet the Press." Durbin, June 19: Keep in mind, …
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DCCC Dials Wrong Number
Democrats make false and misleading claims about the impact of the House GOP budget plan on Medicare and the federal debt in automated phone calls placed in 13 districts. The robocalls, paid for by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee …
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Palin Whoppers on Debt, Oil Imports
Sarah Palin made two wildly inaccurate claims on the debt accumulated under President Obama and oil imports. She wrongly said that the debt had grown more under Obama than "all those other presidents combined." She also was way off when she claimed that the U.S. is going to spend "$8 …
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Sunday Replay
Pity the poor politicians and spinmeisters who had to don suits in the middle of a long weekend and populate the talk shows. They were up to their usual tricks, though: One Republican operative wrongly implied a crime by the White House; several guests talked about the debt or deficit …
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Tagged Debbie Wasserman Schultz, debt, deficit, Ed Gillespie, foreclosures, Mark Kirk, sunday talk shows
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Another Black Hole
A secretive, Republican-leaning group has spent an estimated $3 million on a TV ad making the false claim that government spending is "not creating jobs." The ad first appeared Sept. 7 and was still running nearly a month later. The ad shows a man in a business suit digging an …
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Sunday Replay
Sunday morning’s talkathons featured a few misstatements in a debate between Kentucky’s Senate contenders, and some confusion about debts and deficits. Kentucky Senate Candidates Debate "Fox News Sunday" hosted a debate between Kentucky Senate candidate Rand Paul, a Republican, and his Democratic opponent, Jack Conway. Paul’s statements about the …
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Tagged debt, deficit, Jack Conway, Rand Paul, sunday talk shows
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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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Gimmicks in the Health Care Bill?
Democrats in Congress have been pleased with the Congressional Budget Office’s findings that both the House and Senate health care bills would reduce the deficit over 10 years. But is that assessment due to some accounting trickery in the bills? The conservative Employment Policies Institute is airing an ad on …
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Tagged Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, debt, Employment Policies Institute, health care, June O'Neill, medicare
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