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2012 Players Guide
Tag Archives: MoveOn.org
The Facts About ‘Fat Cats’
Even though we are serious-minded fact-checkers, we are not completely without humor, and MoveOn.org’s latest TV ad on “fat cats” and the “Buffett Rule” is pretty funny. But the ad may leave an im-purr-fect impression. One that’s off by more than a whisker. The TV ad says, “President Obama’s Buffett …
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Progressive Change Campaign Committee
A liberal-leaning group founded by a MoveOn.org strategist, a former labor organizer and an Internet activist.
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Posted in Players Guide 2012
Tagged Adam Green, MoveOn.org, Players Guide, Progressive Change Campaign Committee
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MoveOn.org
Political action committee supporting Democratic candidates directly and through grassroots campaigns.
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MoveOn.org: Starved for Facts
Would you believe that one in six Americans is "going hungry"? You shouldn’t, because it’s not true. Nevertheless, the liberal group MoveOn.org claimed something close to that in an end-of-the-year appeal for donations to Feeding America, the national anti-hunger charity. MoveOn’s message said: "This winter, a record 49 million Americans …
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Heather Graham Teaches Us About Polls
The liberal advocacy group MoveOn.org Political Action has released another health care ad featuring a Hollywood celebrity. Last time it was Will Ferrell talking of pygmy horses and executive compensation. This time it’s actress Heather Graham dressing up as a track and field runner (labeled "public option") and challenging health …
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Posted in The FactCheck Wire
Tagged health insurance, heather graham, MoveOn.org, polling
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Will Ferrell, Pygmy Horses and Health Insurance
MoveOn.org Political Action’s latest video is a satirical send-up of a public service announcement titled "Protect Insurance Companies." It features a collection of actors – including "Saturday Night Live" alum (and Dodge Stratus driver) Will Ferrell, "Mad Men"’s Jon Hamm and "The State"’s Thomas Lennon – who defend, among other …
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Posted in The FactCheck Wire
Tagged health insurance, Jon Hamm, MoveOn.org, public plan, will ferrell
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Health Care Meets Shark Week!
Playing off Discovery Channel’s much-watched Shark Week, MoveOn.org Political Action launched a video likening health insurance companies to these predators of the sea. ⬐ Click to expand/collapse the full transcript ⬏ expand(document.getElementById(‘tet1185583262′));expand(document.getElementById(‘tetlink1185583262′)) Announcer: They are enormous and powerful. They prey on our weaknesses, trying to separate the healthy from the …
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Pushing for a Public Plan
Liberal groups have hit TV and radio with ads praising the idea of a public health insurance plan, an option that President Obama and other Democrats support as part of changes to the health care system. But the ads lack context and could well mislead the public: A TV ad …
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Tagged health care, Health Care for America Now, health insurance, Mary Landrieu, MoveOn.org
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We Wondered Where They Went…
Someone whose work we criticized a fair bit in 2004 and 2006 explains why, perhaps, so little was heard from MoveOn.org and other groups in 2008 in this piece fromNational Public Radio. Money was scarce, but other factors — such as the presence of factcheckers — may have had an …
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