Thread: Clinton & Romney ads latest to be questioned by FactChec

Clinton & Romney ads latest to be questioned by FactCheck

Clinton & Romney ads latest to be questioned by FactCheck
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The non-partisan FactCheck.org continues to truth-squad the presidential campaign ads. Two of its latest postings take issue with claims made in ads from the campaigns of Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Republican Mitt Romney:

• Clinton's Guard ad,FactCheck says, exaggerates a problem that Clinton helped solve. In the ad, she says that members of the National Guard and Reserve who served in Iraq and Afghanistan "didn't" have health insurance when they came home. She goes on to describe how she worked with Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham to fix the problem. FactCheck says:

We find the ad misleading. In fact, active-duty Guard and Reserve troops already were covered by federal insurance, and four out of five non-active-duty guardsmen and reservists already were covered by their civilian employers or other sources. Clinton did help expand and enhance health care coverage for reservists but can't claim credit for creating coverage where none existed, as this ad implies.

• Romney's ad Choice, Judgment is an "attack" or "contrast" ad aimed at Republican rival Mike Huckabee. It makes the case that when he was governor of Massachusetts, Romney "got tough on drugs like meth." But as governor of Arkansas, the ad says, Huckabee "reduced penalties for manufacturing methamphetamine." FactCheck writes that:

The ad says Romney "got tough on drugs like meth" while governor of Massachusetts, but the legislation he supported never passed, and his state's laws are much weaker than Arkansas'. Convicted meth dealers face both minimum and maximum prison terms in Arkansas that are four times longer than those in Massachusetts. The ad misrepresents news articles, implying that they supported Romney's actions as governor when that's not what the news organizations said. One article, in fact, gave critical views of Romney's refusal to issue a pardon.

In recent weeks, FactCheck has also reported on things said by:

•The Democratic contenders during their most recent debate.

•The Republican contenders during their most recent debate.


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[quote]Dodd on Chinese Slaves


Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd unfairly accused the "Chinese government" of using slave labor.

Dodd: When you have the Chinese government, as they just did, even make it more difficult for us to access even entertainment, not to mention, of course, the intellectual property theft that goes on on a daily basis; here you're still using slave labor; you know, you manipulate your currency to give you a 40 percent advantage over our manufacturers and our people working in this country here, that's no longer just a competitor. That's a very different relationship.[/quote]

Isn't that EXACTLY what's being done to us when employers hire illegal aliens?!?!