This Week in FactCheck.org:
- Hillary Clinton directly addressed questions in recent interviews about her exclusive use of a personal email account and server to conduct government business as secretary of state. But her answers only reveal part of the story.
- Sarah Palin says man isn’t to blame for climate change, citing the fact that some glaciers in Alaska are expanding. But an individual glacier’s growth does not disprove the existence or causes of global warming. The vast majority of glaciers are losing ice rapidly.
- The Senate Majority PAC’s TV ad says Republican Sen. Kelly Ayotte “supported tax breaks for companies that shipped jobs overseas, instead of protecting New Hampshire jobs.” That claim has been a staple of Democratic attack ads for more than a decade. But there’s little substance to it.
- In a speech in Miami, Vice President Joe Biden puffed up two statistics related to bringing manufacturing jobs back to the U.S. from overseas.
- Jeb Bush mocked Donald Trump, saying he
almost “spit up my Diet Coke” because “Elizabeth Warren applauded Donald
Trump for his tax policies.” But Warren has only praised Trump for
saying he wants to close the so-called carried-interest loophole – which
is also part of the tax plan Bush announced on Sept. 9.
- Sen. Bernie Sanders says firefighters, police officers, nurses and truck
drivers all pay higher effective tax rates than hedge fund managers.
That’s accurate for some in those occupations, but it’s not the case
across the board.
A Democratic TV ad makes some audaciously false claims about Rep. Bill Cassidy, Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu’s main Republican opponent:
- It claims Cassidy once sponsored a bill to set up “government-run health care” in the state. That’s pure invention; Cassidy’s bill did nothing of the sort.
- And it says he argued for “automatic Obamacare registration,” when he didn’t. Cassidy actually called for repealing the law — and enrolling the uninsured in a scaled-back GOP alternative.
A Senate Majority PAC TV ad says former Sen. Scott Brown “delivered” for “big banks” in the Senate, citing two legislative changes he sought that benefited the industry. But the ad lacks important context: Both changes were to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act — a bill that President Obama called “the toughest financial reform” since the Great Depression — and that bill could not have passed without Brown’s vote.
More here: “Senate Majority PAC Not Telling Whole Story.”
