Democratic ad reminds voters: Bush opposed creating the Homeland Security department before he supported it.
Person: John Kerry
Yucca Mountain Mudslide: Both Sides Dissemble on Nuclear Waste Dump in Nevada
MoveOn.org Voter Fund falsely attacks Bush, who comes back with a misleading ad about Kerry.
Swift Boat Veterans Anti-Kerry Ad: “He Betrayed Us” With 1971 Anti-War Testimony
Group quotes Kerry’s descriptions of atrocities by US forces. In fact, atrocities did happen.
Radio Ads Accuse Kerry Of Not Helping Blacks
Summary
The newly established group People of Color United (PCU) began running a series of radio ads August 2 that challenges John Kerry’s record on “helping and hiring Blacks.”
Some of the content is misleading. One ad blames Kerry for ensuring that jobless workers won’t be eligible for an extra 13 weeks of unemployment benefits. It’s true Kerry missed a crucial vote in which an extension of benefits fell just one vote short of Senate passage,
Bush Nails Kerry’s Poor Attendance at Intelligence Committee Hearings
Summary
A Bush-Cheney ’04 ad released Aug. 13 accuses Kerry of being absent for 76% of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s public hearings during the time he served there. The Kerry campaign calls the ad “misleading,” so we checked, and Bush is right.
Official records show Kerry not present for at least 76% of public hearings held during his eight years on the panel, and possibly 78% (the record of one hearing is ambiguous).
Kerry points out that most meetings of the Intelligence Committee are closed and attendance records of those meetings aren’t public,
DNC Ad Says Bush Lost Manufacturing Jobs
The Democratic National Committee released an ad Aug. 6 saying 2.7 million manufacturing jobs had been lost under Bush. That’s true, but ignores the fact that manufacturing jobs started their decline three years before Bush took office.
Republican-funded Group Attacks Kerry’s War Record
Ad features vets who claim Kerry “lied” to get Vietnam medals. But other witnesses disagree — and so do Navy records.
Internet “Whispering Campaigns” Falsely Accuse Teresa Heinz Kerry
Bogus e-mail messages claim she’s given millions to “radical” groups, some linked to terrorists, and located Heinz factories overseas. Both claims are false.
Kerry’s Dubious Economics
He says new jobs are paying $9,000 less than the old ones. That’s not a fact.
Anti-Kerry Ad Highlights Changes On Welfare, Death Penalty
A Club for Growth PAC TV ad released July 26 accurately cites Kerry’s changing positions over the years on welfare reform, the death penalty for terrorists, and gasoline taxes. But it also falsely implies that he’s voted to raise taxes 350 times, a claim we’ve de-bunked before.