Showing posts with label fact check. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fact check. Show all posts

Friday, February 12, 2016

Rubio Attacks Cruz For Role In A Lawsuit Defending Chinese Company

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio said one his GOP rivals isn't telling the whole truth about his record standing up for American firms against the Chinese. "Ted Cruz was counsel on record for a Chinese company that stole an invention from an American inventor in Florida," Rubio said. "Here you have someone who goes around talking tough about China, but he leaves out the fact that when China stole an American inventor's product, he stood with the Chinese."
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AP FACT CHECK: Clinton, Sanders on health care, donors and more

In their latest debate, Hillary Clinton glossed over the big-money donors juicing her White House ambitions while Bernie Sanders offered disputed numbers behind his plan for a government-financed health system.
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Sunday, December 27, 2015

Fact Checking for Partisan Fun and Profit

Who will fact check the fact checkers?  How about you and me?Take a PolitiFact story last week out of Iowa, where Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is the current Republican front-runner as the state's Feb. 1 presidential caucus approaches. Earlier this month, Sen. Cruz told a Cedar Rapids crowd, "The Democrats in the Senate last year introduced a constitutional amendment to repeal the free speech protections of the First Amendment."
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Sunday, November 15, 2015

AP FACT CHECK: Clinton on guns; Sanders on wage inequality

Bernie Sanders persisted in using shopworn stats on income inequality and Hillary Rodham Clinton glossed over the well-heeled donors to her campaign in the latest Democratic presidential debate.
Some of the claims in the debate Saturday night and how they compare with the facts:CLINTON: "Since we last debated in Las Vegas, nearly 3,000 people have been killed by guns. Two hundred children have been killed. This is an emergency." She said that in the same period there have been 21 mass shootings, "including one last weekend in Des Moines where three were murdered."


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Wednesday, October 14, 2015

AP FACT CHECK: Clinton, Sanders revise history in Dem debate

Hillary Rodham Clinton revised history in the Democratic debate when insisting she's not a flip-flopper on a trade deal she promoted as secretary of state but turned against as a presidential candidate. Bernie Sanders overstated the share of wealth being taken by the richest Americans, a subject that goes to the core of his campaign. A look at some of the claims in the debate among Democratic rivals Tuesday night and how they compare with the facts:


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Sunday, July 19, 2015

Fact Check: The Washington Post on Donald Trump and John McCain

Donald Trump appears to have gotten under the skin of not only Democrats, but also fellow Republicans and the news media. Has that subjected Trump, a Republican presidential candidate, to unfair and/or inaccurate reporting?


An article in the Washington Post today is headlined, “Trump slams McCain for being ‘captured’ in Vietnam.”


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