February 10, 2012 12:36 pm ET filed under Blog
New York Post: Iranian Nuclear “Engineers Basically Needed Killing”
January 26, 2012 10:11 pm ET filed under Blog
Romney Falsely Claims President Obama "Said Nothing" In U.N. Speech About Rockets Fired Into Israel
January 26, 2012 8:40 pm ET filed under Video
Santorum Defends Illegal Coup In Honduras
From the January 26, 2012, CNN GOP presidential primary debate in Jacksonville, Florida:
January 25, 2012 11:31 am ET filed under Blog
Gingrich Promises To Help Overthrow Castro Government
January 23, 2012 10:34 pm ET filed under Video
Gingrich's Cuba Policy Would Mimic Cold War Tactics
From the January 23, 2012, NBC News Republican presidential debate in Florida:
January 19, 2012 12:15 pm ET filed under Blog
Rep. West: Diplomacy With Iran Is "Unconscionable"
January 17, 2012 3:02 pm ET filed under Blog
What Throwing An Ally Under The Bus Actually Looks Like
January 16, 2012 10:38 pm ET filed under Video
Romney: "You Don't Negotiate With Your Enemy From A Position Of Weakness As This President Has Done"
From the January 16, 2012, Fox News/Wall Street Journal GOP primary debate in Myrtle Beach:
January 12, 2012 3:15 pm ET filed under Blog
Santorum: Assassinated Nuclear Scientist Was "Enemy Combatant"
January 08, 2012 2:36 pm ET filed under Blog
Gov. Romney's Party-First Approach To Serving Our Country
January 05, 2012 10:59 am ET filed under Video
Gingrich: Ron Paul "Doesn't Care About" The "Safety Of America"
From a January 4, 2012, appearance by Newt Gingrich on Fox News' On the Record with Greta Van Susteren:
December 19, 2011 9:26 am ET filed under Blog
Fact Checking The Sunday Shows - December 18, 2011
December 19, 2011 9:24 am ET filed under Fact Check
Fact Checking The Sunday Shows - December 18, 2011
This week on the Sunday political talk shows, topics of discussion ranged far and wide. On Fox News Sunday, GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney advocated for block granting Medicaid despite the harm that would do to those who rely on the program. On This Week, House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) distorted the content of a CBO report on income inequality. House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), appearing on Meet the Press, shared several false claims: that employers are concerned about "uncertainty," and that the Keystone pipeline would create 20,000 jobs. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), also on Meet the Press, did the same, falsely asserting that there's no evidence the payroll tax holiday created jobs and that Iran has threatened the U.S. and Israel with nuclear weapons.
November 30, 2011 5:17 pm ET filed under Blog
Rep. Bachmann Puts China And Russia In "New Axis Of Evil"
November 22, 2011 10:01 pm ET filed under Video
Romney: "President Obama Apologizes For America"
From the November 22, 2011, CNN Republican National Security Debate:
November 22, 2011 9:39 pm ET filed under Video
Santorum Answers Question On High-Skilled Immigration By Rambling About Reaganomics
From the November 22, 2011, CNN Republican National Security Debate:
November 22, 2011 9:27 pm ET filed under Video
Rep. Bachmann Still Thinks The Debt Ceiling Deal Was A "Blank Check"
From the November 22, 2011, CNN Republican National Security Debate:
November 22, 2011 9:13 pm ET filed under Video
Romney: "Obamacare" Is "Spending Us Into Bankruptcy"
From the November 22, 2011, CNN Republican National Security Debate:
November 22, 2011 8:41 pm ET filed under Video
Herman Cain Rebrands Profiling As "Targeted Identification"
From the November 22, 2011, CNN Republican National Security Debate:
November 22, 2011 8:38 pm ET filed under Video
Rep. Bachmann: Obama Has "Outsourced" CIA Interrogation "To The ACLU"
From the November 22, 2011, CNN Republican National Security Debate:
November 18, 2011 5:42 pm ET filed under Video
Herman Cain Warns About "Taliban" In Libya
From a press conference with Herman Cain broadcast during the November 18, 2011, edition of CNN's The Situation Room:
November 14, 2011 5:29 pm ET filed under Video
Mitt Romney Refers To Iranian Pro-Democracy Activists As "Insurgents"
From the November 12, 2011, CBS/National Journal debate:
November 14, 2011 5:27 pm ET filed under Video
Rick Santorum Refers To Iranian Opposition As "Rebel Forces"
From the November 12, 2011, CBS/National Journal debate:
November 14, 2011 4:52 pm ET filed under Blog
Cain Forgets His Talking Points On Libya: "I Got All This Stuff Twirling Around In My Head"
November 08, 2011 1:45 pm ET filed under Blog
Sen. McCain: Obama's Private Advocacy For Israel Proves He's Anti-Israel
October 31, 2011 10:24 am ET filed under Fact Check
Fact Checking The Sunday Shows - October 30, 2011
This week's Sunday talk shows included several GOP presidential contenders who have figured out that ignoring facts is a winning formula among their party's voters. While all the candidates who appeared on the shows parroted the same points they've been making for the past several months, there were also several new allegations. On Face the Nation, GOP frontrunner Herman Cain, after having adjusted his 9-9-9 tax plan to avoid tax hikes on those living in poverty, claimed that the exemption was there all along and that his critics simply misreported his plan. That's unlikely given that Cain has been on record defending taxing the income of those living in poverty. On This Week, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) was called out for misrepresenting immigration statistics. Rather than acknowledge her mistake and move on, Bachmann claimed that she did not say what the video clearly showed her saying. And on Fox News Sunday, Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) repeated a slew of easily debunked economic talking points, including that President Obama had overseen the creation of "practically no jobs."
October 15, 2011 12:53 pm ET filed under Blog
Herman Cain: “I’m Not Foreign Policy Dumb”
September 26, 2011 11:15 am ET filed under Video
Rep. Gohmert: "Just Defund The Muslim Brotherhood In Egypt For A While" To Offset FEMA Costs
From the September 26, 2011, episode of America's Newsroom on Fox News:
September 26, 2011 11:13 am ET filed under Blog
Rep. Gohmert: Offset Disaster Relief By Defunding Muslim Brotherhood
September 22, 2011 10:19 pm ET filed under Video
Pants On Fire: Romney Says Obama "Went Around The World And Apologized For America"
From the September 22, 2011, GOP Presidential Fox News/Google debate:
