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Tag Archives: John McCain
Can’t be Fired
We noticed John McCain saying today that he would fire the head of the Securities and Exchange Commission if he were president. But, fortunately for the SEC chairman, the president can’t fire him. McCain (Sept. 18, Cedar Rapids, Iowa): The chairman of the SEC serves at the appointment of the …
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Posted in The FactCheck Wire
Tagged economy, John McCain, Securities and Exchange Commission
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More on Palin’s False Energy Claim
There’s more on Sarah Palin’s claim, made in her ABC News interview, that Alaska produces 20 percent of the nation’s energy supply. As we noted in our original article, official statistics from the federal government show that Alaska produces only 3.5 percent of the total energy produced in the U.S., …
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Did McCain Invent the BlackBerry?
John McCain is having his very own Al Gore moment. McCain’s top economic adviser, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, waved his BlackBerry to a room full of reporters, explaining that "you’re looking at the miracle that John McCain helped create.” Gore was widely mocked for his claim that “I took the initiative in …
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Under FactCheck’s Hood: A Note on Methodology for our Palin – 20% Energy Piece
Last Friday, we pointed out that a Palin-McCain talking point stating that Alaska “produces nearly 20 percent of the U.S. domestic supply of energy” was false. The actual figure was 3.5 percent. Within the story, we allowed (several times) that Palin and McCain may have misspoken and meant to say …
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Tagged Alaska, calculations, energy, FactCheck.org, John McCain, Sarah Palin
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Distorting Our Findings, Part II
On Sept. 10, we objected when the McCain-Palin campaign released an ad implying that we’d criticized Obama for “completely false” and “misleading” claims about Sarah Palin. We did use those words, but we used them to criticize anonymous Internet rumormongers, not Obama. Now that same claim from the McCain-Palin camp …
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Tagged FactCheck.org, Internet rumors, John McCain, Sarah Palin, TV ads
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Energetically Wrong
Summary Palin claims Alaska "produces nearly 20 percent of the U.S. domestic supply of energy." That’s not true. Alaska did produce 14 percent of all the oil from U.S. wells last year, but that’s a far cry from all the "energy" produced in the U.S. Alaska’s share of domestic energy …
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Fact-Checking…’The View’?
We generally don’t take it upon ourselves to parse ABC’s morning gabfest. But we noticed that when the chat turned to Palin’s record on earmarks McCain got it wrong. He was correct on one point: Palin vetoed $500 million in spending as governor. She axed over $230 million in state …
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Tagged Alaska, earmarks, John McCain, Sarah Palin, spending
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