Posts Tagged ‘fact check’
Obama Fact Check: 6.6 Million Guns were Sold without a Background check in 2012
Testimony from Baltimore Baltimore County, Md., Police Chief James Johnson: “From November 2011 to November 2012, an estimated 6.6 million firearm transactions occurred without a background check. Up to 40 percent of firearm transactions occur through private individuals rather than licensed gun dealers. Allowing 40 percent of those acquiring guns to bypass background checks is like allowing 40 percent of airline passengers to board a plane without going through airport security.” Read more: here The ‘40 Percent’ Myth Gun-control advocates have recently been throwing around an impressive new number. President Obama used it last Wednesday, claiming: “as many as 40 percent of guns are purchased without a background check.” Vice President Biden and everyone [...]
Watch Sen. Marco Rubio provide 2013 Republican #SOTU Response
Watch Senator Marco Rubio's give the GOP State of the Union Response Real-Time Fact Checks of President Obama, & More on GOP.gov/SOTU 2013 | VIEW ONLINE Are you planning to watch the president’s State of the Union address tomorrow night? If so, join us at GOP.gov/SOTU for our interactive response starting at 9:00 PM ET. On GOP.gov/SOTU, you can: Watch and get the facts on President Obama's State of the Union message in real-time from your desktop, smart phone, or tablet; Watch the Republican Address to the Nation by Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL), immediately following the president’s remarks; Find and share graphics, charts, and links to more information; Follow and engage with Republican lawmakers and staff on Twitter; and more. Anyone who watches TV [...]
Obama “no family making under $250K a year will see any form of tax increase”
Just another Promise to get elected. But where are the Fact checkers? *Crickets* Here we go again folks, the Obama lies continue to flow. Remember when he said this? “I can make a firm pledge. Under my plan no family making under $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains, not any of your taxes.” Really. Then how is it that this week when people got their payroll checks they were a little thinner than they were in 2012? I’m not talking about the “evil rich”, but the average everyday worker. With the expiration of the payroll tax cut, Americans just saw a 2% bite taken out of their checks. Beginning in 2009, Congress cut the payroll tax in order to put more money into people’s [...]
Fact: Obama DID raise taxes on people making less than $250K
People Outraged About Social Security Tax Increase Don't believe us? Check your paycheck. Seems the entitlement society now believes they shouldn't have to pay into Social Security as evidenced by the left-wing blogs outrage. One blog has even figured out how to blame George W. Bush for the increase. Obama said he would let middle class taxes go up one dime... technically that is true, as the tax is only 6.2 cents on every dollar https://twitter.com/Abraham1863/status/287047084929085440 https://twitter.com/woohootess/status/286981580088557569 One tax increase that was not avoided in the fiscal cliff plan was Social Security. For the past two years, the taxes workers paid into the Social Security program were down by two percent. This year, it will go back up, [...]
Vice-Presidential Debate – Joe Biden v. Paul Ryan – Debate Live Twitter Stream – #Debates
Vice-Presidential Debate - Joe Biden v. Paul Ryan - Debate Live Twitter Stream Tonight Vice President Joe Biden and Governor Mitt Romney’s running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan, will take the stage in Danville, Kentucky for their first and only debate. It starts at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT, and is expected to cover a wide range of issues. The election conversation has been going strong on Twitter since last week in Denver. Since that debate, in fact, there have been about 4 million campaign- and debate-related Tweets sent. As they prep for tonight, Vice President Biden and Rep. Ryan are sharing behind-the-scenes photos and tweeting out messages to rally their followers. And tonight’s debate moderator, ABC News correspondent Martha Raddatz has been sharing her sojourn to the stage [...]
Politifact: MSNBC Claim About Florida’s New Voter Registration Law False
Of course you probably won't hear an apology or retraction on the network's programming, but PolitiFact.com has determined that MSNBC's Chris Matthews was in error when the Hardball host claimed on his June 4 program that a new Florida law -- which has been on hold by a federal judge -- made it utterly impossible for voter registration drives to sign up new voters over weekends. The law requires voter registration drive volunteers to turn in new voter registration forms within 48 hours after having collected them. "You don’t have to be a lawyer to own a calendar or know what a weekend is. A weekend is 48 hours," Matthews sneered at Florida GOP chairman Lenny Curry, insisting that its impossible to register new voters over a weekend without running afoul of the law But the Tampa Bay [...]
Fact Check: Brett Kimberlin was SWATed – False
Brett Kimberlin’s group Velvet Revolution has offered a $10,000 reward leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for the attempted SWAT-tings of Mike Stack, Patrick Frey (Patterico), RedState’s Erick Erickson, and … Brett Kimberlin? Well that’s a new one. via Bloggers work to debunk Brett Kimberlin’s new claim that he was a SWAT-ting victim | Twitchy. Subsequent to inquiries I made this morning, I received the following email from the Montgomery county Maryland public information office: Good Morning, I searched our 911 call database for the above listed address. There was no call listed for 5/31, nor anything similar to what you described. I then searched each of our 6 districts for the entire day of 5/31 for a murder in progress, murder just [...]
Obama can’t get his facts straight on Past Republican Presidents
President Obama Mocks a former Republican President by using an erroneous quote. Obama might quit using Wikipedia to get his facts. Fact Is President Hayes had the fist telephone installed in the White House. Opps. Some folks on Twitter have gone with the Hashtag #BarackObamasPresidentialFacts Pretty funny. President Barack Obama slammed former President Rutherford B. Hayes, a Republican, on Thursday when excoriating his critics for dismissing alternative energy sources. He compared them to President Hayes, who he wrongly believed dismissed the invention of the telephone. "One of my predecessors, President Rutherford B. Hayes, reportedly said about the telephone: 'It’s a great invention but who would ever want to use one?'"President Obama remarked. "That's why he's not [...]
Obama Failed To Cut Deficit In Half but he has an excuse
In an interview with Atlanta's local Fox affiliate WAGA-TV President Obama explains why he was unable to cut the deficit in half in his first term, a promise he made as a candidate. Obama was lobbed the question by a sympathetic reporter who said he is getting "pelted in the media" for making a campaign promise he did not keep. "Well we're not there because this recession turned out to be a lot deeper than any of us realized," Obama said about his inability to cut the deficit in half. "Everybody who is out there back in 2009, if you look back what their estimates were in terms of how many jobs had been lost, how bad the economy had contracted when I took office, everybody underestimated it. People thought that the economy contracted 3%. It turns it retracted close to 9%. We lost 8 [...]
Michele Bachmann says fake computer chips from China found in American weapons – Fact Check
No she is not a nut job. Here is the article from Military.com Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin (D-Mich) just dropped a couple of very alarming tales during a hearing about counterfeit parts making their way into brand new U.S. military weapons. Earlier this year, Boeing and the Navy found that the ice detection system on a brand new P-8 Poseidon was defective. The ice detection system is a critical piece of hardware designed to prevent tragedies by alerting pilots to the presence of ice on an aircraft’s control surfaces. Where did this defective part come from? China. A whole batch of a key piece of the ice detection hardware that was sent to the P-8 production line turned out to be used and worn out parts that were badly refurbished and sold to P-8 [...]
