Fact-checking Boehner and Hoyer on ‘This Week’
By Bill Adair
June 14, 2010
The Republican and Democratic leaders discuss the budget and other issues. We check the facts.
The Republican and Democratic leaders discuss the budget and other issues. We check the facts.
We came, we saw, we're going to conquer — our reporter's notebook, that is, and various pungent statements we scribbled down at the Republican Party of Texas convention that wrapped in Dallas on Saturday.
We'll post updates as we digest this fresh (red) meat. But to set the table, here's a sampling of convention claims we heard that had already been through the PolitiFact Texas Truth-O-Meter...
The baseball fans here at PolitiFact couldn't resist fact-checking pundit George Will's description of Don Larsen's perfect game.
Readers call us out; PolitiFact Texas, get a grip!
With former Columbia/HCA CEO Rick Scott now leading Attorney General Bill McCollum in polls for the Republican gubernatorial nomination, the attacks are flying. Focus on the fraud, they all say. The fraud, the fraud, the fraud. PolitiFact Florida had to bite. We sort out whether Scott’s old company committed fraud, and also explain Scott’s role with the company.
Our in-box is full of chain e-mail! We check out claims on immigration, Muslim voters, gun laws, and taxing your health care benefits.
Republican congressional candidate Liz Carter said she was excluded from a candidate forum last week because she is white. The forum's organizers, who are black, said that's not true. In the complex and often controversial world of Atlanta-area racial politics, such issues are never easy to simplify. PolitiFact jumps into the fray to sort it all out.
Arianna Huffington and Liz Cheney sparred over Iraq war contracts. We sort out a long history.
We settle the important question of whether that's Barack Obama in the Whoomp! video.
We've posted three items from Sunday's show and have two others in the works, including one on the disagreement between Arianna Huffington and Liz Cheney about Halliburton.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution launches our newest state site, checking campaigns in the peach state.
In the first segment of our Message Machine partnership with NPR, we review some of the ads in the California primary.