September 01, 2010 12:44 pm ET filed under Blog
Gov. Barbour Rewrites History: Republican Rise In The South Had Nothing To Do With Race
August 27, 2010 4:31 pm ET filed under Blog
Family Research Council Blames Mehlman's Sexuality For GOP Failures
August 25, 2010 3:11 pm ET filed under Blog
American Future Fund Attacks Rep. Braley In Anti-Mosque, Anti-Muslim Ad
August 25, 2010 2:55 pm ET filed under Fact Check
American Future Fund Attacks Rep. Braley With False Anti-Muslim Ad
The American Future Fund has released a new ad attacking Rep. Bruce Braley (D-IA) for supporting the construction of an Islamic cultural center in Lower Manhattan. The ad states that the center would be built "at Ground Zero" and attempts to paint Imam Abdul Feisal Rauf, the leader of the project, as a terrorist sympathizer. Both claims are demonstrably false.
August 23, 2010 9:15 am ET filed under Fact Check
Fact Checking The Sunday Shows - August 22, 2010
Congress is still on recess as the summer comes to a close, but Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) isn't taking a vacation from spreading misinformation. On Sunday's Meet the Press, Sen. McConnell unleashed a torrent of false claims. After blaming President Obama for the uproar over the proposed Islamic community center in Lower Manhattan, McConnell turned his attention to the scheduled expiration of the Bush tax cuts at the end of this year. McConnell argued that the public opposes higher taxes for the wealthy, that higher tax rates for the top two income brackets would affect 50 percent of small businesses, and that the Bush tax cuts are not to blame for soaring deficits; all of those claims are patently false. Later in the program, New York gubernatorial candidate Rick Lazio (R) smeared Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf as "not peace-loving," implying that he sympathizes with terrorists.
August 20, 2010 5:29 pm ET filed under Blog
Pat Robertson Accuses Mosque And Public Officials Of Bribery In Tennessee
August 18, 2010 12:45 pm ET filed under Blog
Rep. Peter King Denounces Gingrich's "Nazi" Comparison: "It Was Wrong"
August 16, 2010 10:18 am ET filed under Blog
Fact Checking The Sunday Shows - August 15, 2010
August 12, 2010 10:26 am ET filed under Blog
Cantor On Ground Zero Mosque: Everyone Has Rights, "But Come On"
August 10, 2010 10:25 am ET filed under Blog
Muslim-Baiting Sen. Kyl Joins Anti-Mosque Movement
August 09, 2010 10:04 am ET filed under Blog
Fact Checking The Sunday Shows - August 8, 2010
August 09, 2010 10:02 am ET filed under Fact Check
Fact Checking The Sunday Shows - August 8, 2010
On Sunday's Meet the Press, Reps. John Boehner (R-OH) and Mike Pence (R-IN) dodged repeated questions about the cost of extending the Bush tax cuts. Both indirectly suggested that government doesn't need to pay for tax cuts. There is a clear consensus among economists across the political spectrum that tax cuts don't pay for themselves, and that letting tax cuts swell deficits is, in a Bush adviser's words, "just future taxes." Rep. Boehner also suggested Social Security is unsustainable, and Gov. Mitch Daniels (R-IN) agreed on Fox News Sunday. In fact, Social Security is solvent through 2037, and the shortfall thereafter is fairly small. Elsewhere, Tony Perkins told Face the Nation viewers that the Prop. 8 decision ignored the impact of no-fault divorce laws on marriage, when in fact the ruling specifically addressed the subject.
August 05, 2010 2:38 pm ET filed under Blog
National Immigration Policy Summit Highlights Phoenix, AZ - July 31, 2010
August 05, 2010 12:51 pm ET filed under Video
Rep. Peter King Contradicts Himself While Muslim-Baiting
August 03, 2010 6:26 pm ET filed under Blog
About Those "Errors" In Your Kagan Testimony, Sen. Sessions...
August 03, 2010 5:38 pm ET filed under Blog
Rep. Peter King Contradicts Himself While Muslim-Baiting
August 03, 2010 3:40 pm ET filed under Fact Check
About Those "Errors" In Your Kagan Testimony, Sen. Sessions...
In his floor speech this morning opposing Solicitor General Elena Kagan's nomination to the Supreme Court, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) "ask[ed] and challenge[d]" Kagan supporters "to point out any errors in my remarks as we go forth so that we can, above all, get the facts straight." He then launched into an account of Harvard Law's policy toward military recruiters during Kagan's tenure as dean which contained errors of fact. We submit to Sen. Sessions' attention that then-Dean Kagan did not in fact bar recruiters from the campus (as he twice said she did this morning), and that his insistence that anti-gay discrimination in the armed forces is a matter of law and not military policy is misleading at best.
August 02, 2010 2:23 pm ET filed under Fact Check
Kris Kobach Relies Heavily On Voter Fraud Scare Tactics For His Kansas Seat Bid
Known nationally as a key proponent of anti-illegal immigrant legislation, Kris Kobach has also set his sights on becoming the Kansas Secretary of State. A large part of his push for the seat rests on his assertion that Kansas elections are rife with fraud. In truth, instances of voter fraud are rare in Kansas. That fact and Kobach's moves to enact laws that prevent the elderly and the poor from voting probably won't endear him to Kansans.
July 26, 2010 10:21 am ET filed under Blog
Fact Checking The Sunday Shows - July 25, 2010
July 26, 2010 10:16 am ET filed under Fact Check
Fact Checking The Sunday Shows - July 25, 2010
On Fox News Sunday, former Republican Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich defended his year-old "Latina woman racist" attack against Justice Sonia Sotomayor by insisting that a white man would have been pilloried had he made similar remarks. Read in their full context, Sotomayor's remarks do not assert any inherent superiority of judgment for Hispanics — or any other race for that matter. It's worth remembering that Sotomayor was praising the way greater diversity of experience leads to more fully-informed decisions. Later, Gingrich misled viewers to believe that Democrats can extend the Bush tax cuts without changing the law (Republicans wrote the bill to sunset after 2010). Elsewhere, Civil Rights Commissioner Abigail Thomas claimed that polling shows Tea Partiers are reflective of America at large. In fact, polling shows that's just not true.
July 15, 2010 1:41 pm ET filed under Blog
Tea Party Leader Mocks NAACP "Coloreds" In Online Screed
July 13, 2010 11:33 am ET filed under Blog
New Hampshire Candidate Running On "Pro-White" Platform
July 08, 2010 6:11 pm ET filed under Fact Check
Steve King Grasping At Straws To Justify "Default Mechanism" Charge
Rep. Steve King (R-IA) is latching onto accusations of racial bias in the Justice Department as a validation of his claim that President Obama has an anti-Caucasian "default mechanism" in his decision making. Those accusations come from former DOJ lawyer J. Christian Adams, who was hired during the Bush administration. Unfortunately for race-baiters like King, Adams is not a credible source, and his charges do not stand up to scrutiny. What King calls "compelling evidence" is factually wrong and based completely on one man's biased testimony.
June 30, 2010 12:32 pm ET filed under Blog
Rep. Steve King: I Care More About Equal Opportunity Than "Anyone I Know"
June 28, 2010 10:43 am ET filed under Blog
Huckabee Attempts To Explain The "Ick Factor"
June 16, 2010 10:36 am ET filed under Blog
Rep. Steve King Doubles Down On Obama's "Default Mechanism"
June 10, 2010 3:27 pm ET filed under Blog
American Family Association: "Gay Sex = Domestic Terrorism"
June 07, 2010 6:45 pm ET filed under Blog
Rand Paul: "Most Of The Things I Was Being Accused Of Weren't Things I Said"
