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FactCheck Mailbag, Week of May 8-14.
See letters from previous weeks“ [I]t takes nearly two pages for FactCheck.org to try to distort these two facts. ” Viral Spiral
Santorum’s Science
Rick Santorum calls global warming a “hoax.” If he were a scientist, he would be in a small minority. “The dangers of carbon dioxide? Tell that to a plant, how dangerous carbon dioxide is,” Santorum said at the Gulf Coast Energy Summit in Biloxi, Miss., on March 12. He made …
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Bogus Bipartisan Claims
In a mailer to constituents, a Republican congressman claims 27 “bipartisan bills” have passed the House but “hit a brick wall” in the Democratic-controlled Senate. But most of the bills are not very “bipartisan.” A majority of House Democrats voted against all but five of the 27 proposals, sometimes overwhelmingly. …
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Tagged bipartisan, Congress (26), economy (66), Harry Reid (25), jobs (73), unemployment (20)
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Wrestling with the Truth on Santorum’s Lobbying
The Mitt Romney campaign lifts a Rick Santorum quote out of context to level a charge that Santorum is being untruthful about his lobbying history. The Romney campaign claims to have caught Santorum being “at odds with the facts” when he told CNN, “I was not a lobbyist.” The Romney …
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Axelrod’s Hazy Memory of 2008
David Axelrod’s zeal to help President Obama win reelection has clouded his memory. In depicting the 2012 GOP primary as unusually nasty and harmful to the party’s eventual nominee, Obama’s senior campaign adviser falsely claimed “we mentioned Hillary Clinton twice in our advertising” during the 2008 campaign. With little effort, …
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Obama’s ‘Smidgen’ of Truth on Energy Efficiency
President Obama criticized “the other side” for failing to provide “a smidgen of an idea” for energy efficiency. But it turns out, there is only a smidgen of truth to the president’s criticism. The president was speaking in New York at a March 1 fundraising event when he brought up …
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Democrat-on-Democrat Attacks in Ohio
Ohioans are getting a healthy dose of misinformation in a nasty congressional primary in Ohio, which pits incumbent Democrats Marcy Kaptur and Dennis Kucinich against each other. Only one can survive the March 6 vote. Though Kaptur and Kucinich — both 65 and pro-union liberals — were longtime political allies, …
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Obama White House ‘Full of Wall Street Executives’?
A conservative group exaggerates the number of “Wall Street executives” in the Obama White House. In a major TV ad buy, the American Future Fund lists 27 people it claims are part of “Obama’s Wall Street Inner Circle.” But the ad is either flat wrong or greatly exaggerated in more …
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The ‘Bailout’ Santorum Denies
Rick Santorum says, “I didn’t vote for a steel bailout.” But in fact, the former Pennsylvania senator voted in 1999 for the Emergency Steel Loan Guarantee Program, which was dubbed a “bailout” by multiple news organizations at the time. The loan guarantee program Santorum supported was much smaller than the …
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College Kills Faith?
Rick Santorum is off base when he criticizes college as a place where young people lose their “faith commitment.” In fact, the percentage of those with weakened religious affiliations is higher for those who don’t go to college. Santorum also twists Obama’s words when he accuses him of snobbery for …
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Santorum’s Twisted Take on JFK & Religion
Rick Santorum misrepresented what John F. Kennedy said in 1960 about church-state separation. According to Santorum, Kennedy said that religious people could “have no role in the public square” and “should not be permitted . . . to influence public policy.” But Kennedy didn’t say those things. He said he …
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