Romney ads use deliberate lies as part of his strategy of racial identity politics to target white votes in the form of welfare ads that have been consistently debunked by independent fact checkers such as Politifact who have awarded some of them the “pants on fire” award which is reserved for only the most egregious […]
Several fact-check organizations and websites, such as the New York Times to PolitiFact, have refuted Romney’s claims that Obama removed the work requirement from the welfare law and will cut Medicare benefits by $216 billion with the Washington Post giving Romney’s ad “four Pinocchios,” a measure Romney pollster Neil Newhouse dismissed: “Fact checkers come to this with their […]
MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell has twice taken on the issue of Paul Ryan’s lies about Ayn Rand. How can a person go on at length for years about how much they love the philosophy of Ayn Rand, and then–once a potential candidate for Vice President–say that you disagree with her philosophy? You can see O’Donnell ripping […]
No United States President in history has had as many false and malicious rumors spread about him. As part of an ongoing public service commitment by this website, we present our series of articles debunking right-wing lies. Myth: Obama’s thesis paper is sealed Reality: Obama did not actually write the kind of ‘thesis’ that some […]
If you thought the ‘birthers’ were nuts, they have nothing on Joel Gilbert. Rejecting the story that the Kenyan-born Barack Obama Sr. was President Obama’s father, Gilbert released a full-length documentary this July entitled “Dreams from My Real Father: A Story of Reds and Deception” in which he argues that President Obama’s real father is […]