A Democratic National Committee (DNC) radio ad claims Republicans would “criminalize…churches just for giving communion” to illegal aliens. The claim is nonsense. The House bill to which the ad refers doesn’t say that. Both the Republican sponsors of the bill and the Bush administration have made clear that’s not the bill’s intent.
Person: George W. Bush
RNC Mischaracterizes Feingold’s Censure Resolution
A GOP radio ad falsely characterizes Sen. Feingold’s censure resolution as reprimanding the President for pursuing al Qaeda.
Misstatement of the Union
The President burnishes the State of the Union through selective facts and strategic omissions.
DNC State of the Union Attack
A DNC TV ad accuses Bush of breaking his word, but it strains some facts in the process.
New Group, Old Habits
A liberal group re-names itself and launches a $1-million ad campaign making dubious claims.
Polling in Iraq: Who’s Right?
Bush says 70 per cent of Iraqis see their lives going well, but MoveOn.org says most Iraqis want US troops out. Both sides are right, up to a point.
A Tortured History
President Bush has declared repeatedly, “we do not torture.” But claims of prisoner abuse continue to surface, Amnesty International has declared the US detention center in Cuba to be “a gulag,” and the administration has yet to deny a news report that it holds scores of suspects in secret CIA prisons overseas.
Iraq: What Did Congress Know, And When?
Bush says Congress had the same (faulty) intelligence he did. Howard Dean says intelligence was “corrupted.” We give facts.
RNC’s False E-mail
Mehlman claims,”Before Ms. Miers was even announced many Democrat groups said they would oppose her.” Actually, none did.
Anti-war Ad Says Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld & Rice “Lied” About Iraq
We find some subtle word-twisting, and place the claims in context.