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2012 Players Guide
Tag Archives: Karl Rove
American Crossroads/Crossroads GPS
Conservative-leaning group founded with help from Karl Rove and former RNC Chairman Ed Gillespie.
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Posted in Players Guide 2012
Tagged American Crossroads, Crossroads GPS, Ed Gillespie, Karl Rove, Players Guide
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Sunday Replay
This week, we find guests on the Sunday public affairs shows making false statements about disclosure of political funds, whether a Senate candidate pushed to have terrorists tried in his home state or favored letting states ban private health insurance, and whether middle-income families would pay more if the Bush …
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Posted in The FactCheck Wire
Tagged Charlie Crist, Christopher Van Hollen, Karl Rove, Kendrick Meek, Marco Rubio, Pat Toomey, sunday talk shows, Tim Kaine
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Sunday Replay
The talk shows’ factual failures included misinformation from Karl Rove (about write-in ballots in Alaska), from a former president (about college graduation rates and health in the U.S.) and from a current one (of Iran, about several topics). Rove’s Spelling Lesson Republican strategist Karl Rove overstated a legal barrier confronting …
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Posted in The FactCheck Wire
Tagged Bill Clinton, Jim DeMint, Karl Rove, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, sunday talk shows
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American Crossroads
Conservative-leaning group founded with help from Karl Rove and former RNC Chairman Ed Gillespie.
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Posted in Players Guide
Tagged American Crossroads, Bradley Wayne Hughes, Cash Attack, Ed Gillespie, Harold Simmons, Karl Rove, Trevor Rees-Jones
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A Bogus Ad on Breast Cancer, Rove Vs. Brokaw, and Pelosi’s Promise
In Episode 3, we explore the false claims in an ad about breast cancer and health care legislation, look into a testy exchange between Republican strategist Karl Rove and “Meet the Press” host Tom Brokaw, and add context to an RNC ad that criticizes Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi for the ethics of members of her party.
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Posted in FactCheck Radio
Tagged Americans for Prosperity, breast cancer, David Axelrod, ethics, health care, health care reform, Karl Rove, Nancy Pelosi, polls, RNC, Tom Brokaw
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Rove Vs. Brokaw, and Other Sunday Squabbles
Republican strategist Karl Rove and NBC’s "Meet the Press" guest host Tom Brokaw got into a tussle on that program Sunday over whether the Bush administration had planned to use oil money to partly fund the Iraq war. Rove also overstated opposition to Democratic health care legislation. We’ll start with …
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Posted in The FactCheck Wire
Tagged David Axelrod, health care, health care reform, health insurance, Iraq war, John Boehner, Karl Rove, lindsey graham, Tom Brokaw
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