Latest Fact Checks By Angie Drobnic Holan

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Pushing the envelope to link debt and energy

By Angie Drobnic Holan
June 20, 2008
We are "borrowing Saudi money for Saudi oil" with the result being "dependency and debt."
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‘Privatization’ gets ‘personal’

By Angie Drobnic Holan
June 13, 2008
John McCain says he never supported the privatization of Social Security, even though video shows he did.
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Mostly, higher incomes pay capital gains tax

By Angie Drobnic Holan
June 11, 2008
Obama's plan to raise the capital gains tax "hurts the middle class."
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Obama didn’t write that

By Angie Drobnic Holan
June 10, 2008
From Obama's book: "I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother's race."
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Not Muslims, but Arab-Americans

By Angie Drobnic Holan
June 10, 2008
Obama said he would "stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction."
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Hussein did say he hoped to get WMD

By Angie Drobnic Holan
June 5, 2008
When the United States invaded Iraq, Saddam Hussein wanted to acquire weapons of mass destruction, and "he said so himself after his capture."
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Her senior thesis doesn’t say that

By Angie Drobnic Holan
May 30, 2008
Obama's wife wrote a paper in college that said America was a nation founded on "crime and hatred" and that whites in America are "ineradicably…
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E-mail takes college work out of context

By Angie Drobnic Holan
May 30, 2008
Obama's wife said her goal in life was to put the black community "first and foremost."
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Campaign in ’68 didn’t start until March

By Angie Drobnic Holan
May 26, 2008
It doesn't make sense "historically" to drop out because the 1968 race was still competitive when "Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California."
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McCain proposed bill that didn’t pass

By Angie Drobnic Holan
May 23, 2008
"Ten years ago, John McCain offered a bill that said he would ban a candidate from paying registered lobbyists."
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He’s rich, but that’s not his housing fix

By Angie Drobnic Holan
May 22, 2008
John McCain, "one of the richest people in a Senate filled with millionaires," says the solution to the housing crisis is for people to get…
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