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FactCheck Mailbag
FactCheck Mailbag, Week of May 1-7.
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Tag Archives: President Obama
Obama’s Solyndra Problem
President Obama exaggerated when defending his administration’s approval of a $535 million loan guarantee to Solyndra, a now-defunct solar company. Obama referred to Solyndra’s loan at an Oct. 6 press conference as “a loan guarantee program that predates me.” That’s not accurate. It’s true that the Energy Policy Act of …
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Posted in The FactCheck Wire
Tagged clean-energy innovation, President Obama, Solyndra, stimulus
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Obama No ‘Different’ Today on Taxes
An American Crossroads TV ad claims Obama’s position on taxes is “different” than it was in 2009. It isn’t. The conservative group began airing a new TV ad in St. Louis on Oct. 3 in advance of the president’s fundraising trip to Missouri. The ad, titled “Don’t,” urges Obama not …
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Obama, McConnell Take Oil Import Data for Spin
President Barack Obama and Sen. Mitch McConnell used the same data to score apparently conflicting points about U.S. dependency on foreign oil. Obama said oil imports account for less than half of consumption, while McConnell said 60 percent of our oil comes from abroad. Both can claim to be correct, …
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Cadillac Plans and Unions: Who Benefits?
When the White House and congressional Democrats agreed last month to scale back a Senate-passed tax on high-value health plans, it was widely portrayed as a giveaway to labor unions. For example, the New York Post reported that it was a "sweetheart deal" that would save union members $60 billion, …
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Posted in The FactCheck Wire
Tagged Cadillac plan, health care, labor unions, President Obama
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Sunday Morning Stumbles
A lot of talking gets done on the Sunday morning shows, so it's no surprise that a verbal mishap or two might turn up. For instance, yesterday on CNN's "State of the Union with John King," Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky dissed the Democratic health care overhaul bills, …
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Clueless “Columbo”
Q: What's up with "Columbo" and his questions for Obama? A: The interrogator in a chain e-mail gets his facts fouled up and makes false accusations.
Playing Favorites With Chrysler Dealers?
Q: Did the Obama administration target Chrysler dealerships for closure according to their political contributions? A: The best evidence shows that dealerships with Republican donors weren't disproportionately targeted – auto dealers overall tend to lean overwhelmingly Republican.
Posted in Ask FactCheck
Tagged Automotive Task Force, Chrysler, Clinton, dealership, President Obama
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Palin vs. Obama: Death Panels
Like many disagreements in the digital age, it all started with a post on Facebook. Last Friday, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin posted a note to her Facebook page and introduced a new term to the health care debate: Palin, Aug. 7: The America I know and love is not one in which …
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Tagged death panel, health care, President Obama, Sarah Palin
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Nazi Symbols at Town Halls: The Real Story
Recent comments by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that swastikas and other Nazi imagery had been appearing at lawmakers’ town hall meetings on health care set off furious rounds of tweeting and blogging by outraged conservatives. The episode began when the California Democrat was asked by a reporter whether she thought …
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Same Inaccurate Claim on Oil Imports
In a July 6 interview with Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta, President Obama repeated his false claim that the U.S. “import[s] more oil today than ever before.” When Obama first said this in February during an address to a joint-session of Congress, we wrote that the president had gotten his facts …
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