Posted on 02/14/2016 7:00:29 AM PST by Citizen Zed
Republican candidates misrepresent the facts on the Supreme Court, immigration, abortion and other issues.
They repeated several false and misleading claims, and made some new ones, too.
Sen. Ted Cruz claimed that "we have 80 years of precedent of not confirming Supreme Court justices in an election year." That's wrong. Justice Anthony Kennedy was confirmed in 1988, an election year.
Businessman Donald Trump called Cruz the "single biggest liar" for saying Trump "supports federal taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood." But Trump did leave open the possibility of funding some aspects before later saying he wouldn't support funding as long as the group performed abortions.
Sen. Marco Rubio said that illegal immigration "is worse today than it was three years ago, which is worse than it was five years ago." The estimated number of immigrants in the country illegally has remained stable over that time.
Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson attributed a quote to Joseph Stalin that experts say didn't come from the Soviet dictator.
Trump falsely claimed that a failed eminent domain case to benefit a Trump casino project in 1998 "wasn't for a parking lot." It was.
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush conflated two Trump quotes in claiming Trump called Sen. John McCain a "loser because he was a P.O.W." Trump said he was a loser, because he lost the 2008 presidential election.
Trump claimed that the nation's economy "didn't grow" in the last quarter. It did grow, by a small amount.
Trump repeated his claim that he is a self-funded candidate. Not entirely. His money makes up 66 percent of his campaign's money through the end of 2015. The rest comes from individual donors.
And there were several other repeated claims we've fact-checked before on jobs, taxes, immigration and regulation.
(Excerpt) Read more at factcheck.org ...
My Super Tuesday primary election is about 2 weeks away. I don’t give a crap about “fact checks”. The die is cast, the race has been run, the votes are already decided.
Factcheck.org my butt. Go look at the ‘unbiased staff’ of that place.
Cruz corrected himself on the Supreme Court nominee. Correct is no one has been nominated and confirmed in an election year.
Kennedy was nominated for the bench in 1987. Factcheck should get their facts right.
Sen. Ted Cruz claimed that “we have 80 years of precedent of not confirming Supreme Court justices in an election year.” That’s wrong. Justice Anthony Kennedy was confirmed in 1988, an election year.
So PISSED OFF that this was not attacked. Cruz lies more then the worst teenager. It is so natural for him. I have never seen anything like that before.
Nothing form any of the candidates is worth noting. Minor mistakes or easily explained statements.
To rush this garbage to FR just so you can say “Trump is the biggest liar” is just pathetic trolling.
They get a few facts wrong - as opposed to democrats that lie about darn near everything.
Oh please. If you think .02 percent is growth then you are dumber then I imagined. If you think that Trump isn’t self paying for his campaign minus American people VOLUNTEERING to give a few pennies, you are crazy.
So those are the worst you’ve got, you will lose as typical.
They think the Establishment Media is not bias.
So what does that tell you about your “facts”.
Yes. Kennedy was nominated by Reagan in November 1987. Confirmed in early 1988.
Post debate “fact-checking” is one of the most obvious lies of the MSM. If there were simple errors in dates or numbers that needed to be corrected, that could easily be done as a part of news stories.
The reporters know that these ‘fact checks’ are nothing but editorials in which they engage in direct political arguments over the interpretations of facts. And they also know that their opinions are held in so much contempt by the general public, that if they were honest and labeled it as an editorial, ni one would ever read it.
You ever notice Factcheck.org never fact checks democrats? Wonder why.
Who “fact checks” factscheck.org.?
In the meantime the number of corpses grow-- with the names of those who got in the way of Clinton and Obama on the toe tag...
Some of the factcheck.org comments seem nitpicky.
Illegals at 11.5 million? Other websites have it between 18 million and 40 million (or more) because there is no way for the FED to have an accurate count with the open borders. Notice that the media no longer reports on the childrens’ invasion. It has been going on for well over a year.
The economy grew at 0.7%. Rather nitpicky to claim Trump was wrong. My moneymarket grows at 0.75%, but it is hardly a significant deposit to my account.
Trump lends his campaign money and gets ‘unsolicited’ donations, so he isn’t entirely truthful by saying his campaign is self-funding. Again, rather nitpicky.
I think the Fact Checkers need to be fact checked.
Justice Anthony Kennedy was appointed much earlier than the start of the election year.
This site is a lie. Confirmation is the final step for Kennedy to take his seat, if you recall at the time, Democrats were taking their sweet sweet time.
Cruz was correct. No justice has been nominated and confirmed in an election year.
Sen. Ted Cruz claimed that “we have 80 years of precedent of not confirming Supreme Court justices in an election year.” That’s wrong. Justice Anthony Kennedy was confirmed in 1988, an election year.
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This fact check gotcha shows the ignorance of the fact checker and the moderator in last nights debate. “Precedent” does not mean that absolutely no justice was confirmed during the entire 80 year time frame in question. It means that there is a historical backdrop of eighty years supporting the practice of not confirming justices in an election year. In other words there may have been a justice here and there that obtained confirmation, but you can find instances (precedent) going back 80 years for not doing so during an election year.
Probably true. Kennedy was confirmed in an election year but nominated late the year before.
However, I wonder what is going to happen in January when the Republican President has to deal with a Supreme Court Justice and STILL try to get Congress to pass their agenda. It is going to be a very interesting 13 months. Republicans are going to have to do things in near perfection for this to work.
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