UPDATED: Grading Texas claims by, and about, Barack Obama
The president’s one-day swing to the Austin area gave rise to fact checks of, and about, him.
The president’s one-day swing to the Austin area gave rise to fact checks of, and about, him.
We blew it, readers say, in rating Pants on Fire a claim about science and greenhouse gas emissions.
Barack Obama came and went. Rick Perry and a leader of Texas Democrats took the occasion to loft jobs-related claims--now fact-checked.
What better way to welcome Obama to Central Texas than walking through the most popular PolitiFact fact checks of, or about, him this year--plus they include a 2012 check of Romney.
A Texas congressman is silly, one reader writes.
PolitiFact Texas writes as if facts are irrelevant, another says.
Let’s open the mailbag.
A California editorial cartoonist said the state of Texas last inspected the plant in West in 2006. That’s not so.
Bee Moorhead tweeted about Austin's local voter turnout being worse of late than in, say, 1973. Get out!
An employees group says most state workers got no raises from 2009 to 2012. That checked out.
Bill Hammond, who helms the Texas Association of Business, spoke up for business tax cuts by saying businesses pay 60 percent of taxes in the state. Really?
In a CNN interview, Perry said Obama has yet to respond to the 2010 letter on border security he tried to hand the president on the tarmac of a Texas airport. We see smoke.
Louie Gohmert said on C-SPAN that al Qaeda has camps south of the Rio Grande. That's speculative, we find.
David Dewhurst says Texas school systems lose 45 days to state-imposed tests. We did not find a firm factual basis for his figure.