Stories tagged "smears"

Fact check!

When the GOP mocks community organizers, it denigrates a tradition of collective self-help that's made America a more humane country.

In her nearly 10 year career at U of C, Michelle Obama instituted community service programs, helped to restore community relations with the University, and established a network of health care clinics to provide patients with primary care.

This paragraph in the Reuters story about Bristol Palin's pregnancy seems pretty close to indefensible:

Fact problems at several points...

An expert at misrepresentation takes on Barack Obama. Unfortunately but unsurprisingly, given his earlier hit job on the last Democratic nominee, Mr. Corsi's latest is rife with inaccuracies and innuendo.

For the record, George Clooney is not advising Barack Obama on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Even though a host of independent, nonpartisan organizations have said this attack isn't true, Senator McCain continues to lie about Senator Obama's plan to give 95% of all families a tax cut of $1,000, and not raise taxes for those making under $250,000

The media have had a good laugh lately with John McCain’s petty, deceptive political stunts -- and ignored his efforts to distort the truth to win a few cheap political points. It's time to activate the Action Wire and stop waiting for the media to tell

But if John McCain thinks that comment was playing the race card, then why did he play it first? One month ago -- in late June -- a McCain ad superimposed Obama's visage on a one hundred dollar bill as part of an effort to mock his supposed 'presumptuousn