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- PolitiFact's Sorting Out The Truth Articles 11/02/08
Sorting Out The Truth On Taxes
Sorting Out The Truth On Iraq
Sorting Out The Truth On Energy
Sorting Out The Truth On Healthcare
Sorting Out The Truth On National Security & Foreign Policy
Sorting Out The Truth On The Economy
Recent Factchecker Articles 11/02/08
Obama's Spending Cuts October 31, 2008
Promises to cut government spending are pretty much worthless unless accompanied by convincing explanations of how
precisely they will be implemented.
John McCain's 'Trick or Treat'? October 30, 2008
the McCain camp has wildly exaggerates the significance of the Obama-Ayers-Khalidi triangle.
Palin and the Maybe Pipeline October 29, 2008
Both Palin and McCain exaggerate the Alaska governor's pipeline accomplishments and talk as if it is already underway
when it has yet to be negotiated and nobody knows how much it will actually cost.
John McCain and the Middle Class October 28, 2008
Obama conveniently overlooks tax credits and blurs the distinction between "families" and "tax payer units."
Obama's Redistribution 'Bombshell' October 27, 2008
The McCain camp is wrong to suggest that the Illinois senator advocated an "wealth redistribution" role for the Supreme
Court in his 2001 interview.
Life Cycle of a Rumor October 22, 2008 click for full Factcheck.org article
Factcheck has noticed that e-mail rumors tend to circulate, get debunked (ideally), go dormant for a while, and then flare up
again. Think of it as a horde of zombies — they come at you, you kill them, you breathe a sigh of relief, and then there’s an
extreme closeup and a finger twitches and you realize they’re not really dead.
FactCheck’s Most Wanted October 21, 2008 click for full Factcheck.org article
Enthusiastic truth-seekers (and angry partisans) have been inundating Factcheck with questions this election cycle.
Sometimes the rumors take a long time to untangle. The truth is rarely straightforward enough to fit neatly into an ad, sound
bite or chain e-mail. As the election nears, Factcheck wraps up pieces on some of the most requested fact-checks of all time,
or at least of this year.
Finding More Facts 10/2/2008
Find more facts at Factchecker and Politifact.
Barack Obama Politifact Barack Obama Factchecker
John McCain Politifact John McCain Factchecker
Bob Barr Politifact
Ralph Nader Politifact
Joe Biden Politifact Joe Biden Factchecker
Sarah Palin Politifact Sarah Palin Factchecker
RNC Politifact
DNC Politifact
Chain Emails Politifact
Politifact Fact Sheets
Corsi's Dull Hatchet 9/15/2008 click for full factcheck.org article
Jerome Corsi's "The Obama Nation" is a mishmash of unsupported conjecture, half-truths, logical fallacies and outright
falsehoods.
Chain Emails & The Truth-O-Meter 8/27/2008
www.politifact.com has a listing of presidential candidate attack emails currently being sent around. Click here
** Signal's T.I.P. tip: The majority of passed along emails are based on lies, half-truths, rumors, and myths. Don't become part of the problem. Do
a search to make sure you don't pass along a false email. Another site we recommend is www.snopes.com.
If you can't verify if something is true or false, we'd recommend not forwarding it to others.
- Condi's Faulty Memory 09.27.06
On 9/26/06 Condolezza Rice claimed former President Bill Clinton's comments were "flatly false" when he stated that the
Bush Administration did nothing about Osama bin Laden pre-9/11. She said that President Bush was "at least as
aggressive" as Clinton. But according to the 9/11 Commission Report, unlike Clinton Bush made no military efforts until after
9/11 and the 9/11 commission was told by Bush that "before 9/11, he had not seen good options for special military
operations against Bin Laden".
- Rice made a second claim that Clinton did not leave a comprehensive strategy for the Bush Administration to fight Al
Qaeda. But the 9/11 Commission Report notes that in January 2001 Rice did receive a comprehensive report titled "Strategy
For Eliminating the Threat From the Jihadist Networks of Al Qaeda".
Related article at factcheck.org
Contact U.S. Dept. of State / Condolezza Rice at contact-us.state.gov/cgi-bin/state.cfg/php/enduser/std_alp.php