April 05, 2010 10:04 am ET filed under Fact Check
Fact Checking The Sunday Shows - April 4, 2010
Easter Sunday was a light day for political talk shows, but Republican misinformation still found a home on Fox News Sunday. Sen. Jon Kyl continued the Republican effort to misrepresent public opinion of health care reform and repeated the false claim that the stimulus failed to create jobs. Meanwhile, Rep. Kevin McCarthy wrongly claimed that Democrats haven't focused on job creation.
March 29, 2010 9:56 am ET filed under Fact Check
Fact Checking The Sunday Shows - March 28, 2010
On yesterday's political talk shows, Sen. Jim DeMint and Rep. Michele Bachmann used their respective appearances on Face the Nation not only to continue spreading misinformation about health care reform but to also distance themselves from recent violence from the Tea Party movement.
March 22, 2010 10:58 am ET filed under Fact Check
Fact Checking The Sunday Shows - March 21, 2010
On yesterday's political talk shows, Reps. John Boehner and Paul Ryan, Sen. John Cornyn, and RNC Chairman Michael Steele repeated worn out obstructionist talking points. Despite the GOP's slanderous attempts to derail health care reform, the bill will stop insurance company abuses, cut the deficit, create jobs, and provide millions of Americans with affordable health care coverage.
March 15, 2010 10:28 am ET filed under Fact Check
Fact Checking The Sunday Shows - March 14, 2010
On yesterday's political talk shows, Republican members of Congress repeated worn out obstructionist talking points about health care reform. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) spread lies about the use of reconciliation and falsely equated it to the Republicans' attempt to change Senate rules in 2005. Flying in the face of the facts, Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) falsely claimed the plan would cut Medicare benefits, raise premiums, and increase the deficit.
March 08, 2010 9:17 am ET filed under Fact Check
Fact Checking The Sunday Shows - March 7, 2010
On yesterday's political talk shows, Republican members of Congress used their time in the spotlight to blandly reiterate the weak GOP talking points on a variety of issues. Senators McConnell and Hatch, however, went even further and made outrageously false claims about Democratic health care reform legislation.
March 01, 2010 9:18 am ET filed under Fact Check
Fact Checking the Sunday Shows - February 28, 2010
On yesterday's political talk shows, Republican Senators Jon Kyl (AZ), John McCain (AZ), and Lamar Alexander (TN) along with Representatives Paul Ryan (WI), Marsha Blackburn (TN), and Eric Cantor (VA) repeated countless false talking points about Democratic health care reform proposals.
February 22, 2010 8:49 am ET filed under Fact Check
Fact Checking The Sunday Shows - February 21, 2010
On yesterday's political talk shows, Republican elected officials used their camera time to continue issuing the standard GOP talking points. Gov. Haley Barbour (R-MS) made numerous false claims about Democratic health care reform and Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN) wrongly asserted "the stimulus bill has failed."
February 15, 2010 10:06 am ET filed under Fact Check
Fact Checking the Sunday Shows - February 14, 2010
On yesterday's political talk shows, Sen. Lindsey Graham and fmr. Vice President Dick Cheney continued the barrage of rightwing falsehoods assaulting the Obama administration's national security policies. Liz Cheney and Rep. Aaron Schock, respectively, relied on debunked conservative talking points to slander clean energy legislation and the Recovery Act.
February 08, 2010 10:31 am ET filed under Fact Check
Fact Checking the Sunday Shows - February 7, 2010
After a blizzard descended on the nation's capital this weekend, the Sunday political talk shows were mostly uneventful. However, the snowstorm didn't stop former Gov. Sarah Palin and Republican strategist Ed Gillespie from filling the airwaves with flurries of misinformation regarding Afghanistan, energy, and the national debt.
February 01, 2010 10:30 am ET filed under Video
Fact Checking the Sunday Shows - January 31, 2010
On Sunday, January 31, 2010, it was abundantly clear what the Republicans' talking points were. On Sunday show after Sunday show, the Republican guests repeated falsehoods about Democrats' actions to tackle the recession. Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Sen. John Thune (R-SD), were the worst offenders, repeatedly spreading falsehoods about the economy, jobs, the deficit, and health care.
February 01, 2010 10:07 am ET filed under Fact Check
Fact Checking the Sunday Shows - January 31, 2010
On Sunday, January 31, 2010, it was abundantly clear what the Republicans' talking points were. On Sunday show after Sunday show, the Republican guests repeated falsehoods about Democrats' actions to tackle the recession. Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Sen. John Thune (R-SD), were the worst offenders, repeatedly spreading falsehoods about the economy, jobs, the deficit, and health care.
January 25, 2010 9:01 am ET filed under Fact Check
Fact Checking The Sunday Shows - January 24, 2010
After the game-changing Massachusetts special election and Supreme Court decision, much of the focus on this week's Sunday political talk shows was on strategic decisions for the coming year. Regarding the future of health care reform, Senators Cornyn, McCain, and McConnell attempted to convince viewers that the Republican Party has wanted to work with the Democratic majority on health care reform - when, in fact, the GOP has actively and openly fought the process every step of the way.
