Five Ohio Papers: McCain ‘Sweat Equity’ ad one of best for misleading.

October 25th 2008 in Lies

RATING 3 on a scale from 0 (misleading) to 10 (truthful).”The ad should get a prize for the most effective use of small business owners in a misleading commercial…How about the “trillion dollars in new spending” by Obama? The McCain campaign apparently did its own calculations on the cost of Obama’s programs. A more neutral calculation comes from the New American Foundation, a nonpartisan, nonprofit, Washington, D.C.- based think thank. The foundation analyzed the proposals Obama and McCain made at the national political conventions. The tab: Obama proposed $547 billion in annual spending increases and tax cuts. McCain proposed between $524 billion and $563 billion in annual spending increases and tax cuts. All Joe the Plumbers would have to agree that both figures represent a lot of money.” [Dayton Daily News, 10/25/08: http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/news/122492343286970.xml&coll=2]

AP: Fact Check: Palin “Misrepresented” Biden comment on Obama.

“Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin misrepresented to a campaign audience Thursday what her Democratic counterpart Joe Biden has said about Barack Obama’s ability to handle a foreign crisis. ‘Sen. Obama’s own running mate, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has informed us that a serious international crisis is certain if Obama is [...]

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Politifact.com: RNC Mailer “Beyond False. It’s Pants on Fire Wrong.”

“Sometimes they make it easy on us fact-checkers. Take the new flier from the Republican National Committee landing in mailboxes in the hard-fought state of Virginia…To state the obvious, it’s not fair to extrapolate from that comment the sentiment that ‘terrorists just need a good talking to.’ Iran, Cuba and Syria are indeed designated ‘state [...]

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