Latest Fact Checks

Chu said all the world’s coal burned up is “worst nightmare”

By Angie Drobnic Holan

January 18, 2009

Energy nominee Steven Chu has called coal "his worst nightmare."

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Geithner’s ‘common’ tax error

January 16, 2009

Geithner's failure to pay self-employment taxes while working for the IMF "is a mistake that is commonly made for people who are working internationally or…

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Geithner’s second crack at squaring taxes

January 16, 2009

"Geithner still didn't correct the same type of error for some years, even after the Internal Revenue Service flagged him for the failure to pay…

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Tax cuts for rich not biggest deficit factor

By Angie Drobnic Holan

January 16, 2009

Bush's tax cuts for high earners "have been the biggest contributor to the budget deficit."

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Surgeon General is more than spokesman, oversees public health

By Alexander Lane

January 14, 2009

"The biggest job of the surgeon general is to translate health care and health care needs into plain English."

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Warren on gay marriage and incest

January 14, 2009

"Mr. Warren compared same-sex couples to incest."

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Group says Warren called some Christians Marxist

January 14, 2009

The Rev. Rick Warren "has called Christians who advance a social gospel Marxists."  

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Big Three hourly wages inflated

January 14, 2009

"Even with recent changes, the average hourly wage at General Motors is still $75 an hour."

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Postal Service employs just over 600,000

By Angie Drobnic Holan

January 5, 2009

If Obama's economic plan creates 600,000 new government jobs, "that's about the size of the post office work force."

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A player, but not the captain

By Shawn Zeller

December 3, 2008

Obama "changed the rules in Washington. Gone are the free gifts from lobbyists. Gone are the fancy airplane rides for nothing."

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The McCain campaign experiments with dishonesty

By Alexander Lane

December 3, 2008

Obama would "experiment with socialism."

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McCain is further back than Gore was

By Alexander Lane

December 3, 2008

"The McCain campaign is roughly in the position where Vice President Gore was running against President Bush one week before the election of 2000."

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