Fact Checking the Fifth Republican Debate

NBC News ^ | 12/16/2015 | LEIGH ANN CALDWELL

[SeekAndFind]

Republican presidential candidates spewed statistics and positions throughout the two-hour debate Tuesday night, but not everything that they said was true.

NBC News' partner Politifact highlights some of those statements.

Fact check 1. Rand Paul says Marco Rubio "is the one for an open border."

Paul tried to hit Rubio's vulnerable spot: immigration. Rubio was a leader in the Senate's comprehensive immigration bill and as part of that Paul said Rubio "is the one for an open border that is leaving us defenseless."

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Rand Paul said that Marco Rubio is for an 'open border' -- that's ridiculous. Pants on Fire! https://t.co/LnrVTd9DMl pic.twitter.com/RalxJo9hme -- PolitiFact (@PolitiFact) December 16, 2015

Fact check 2. Jeb Bush said: "Two months ago Donald Trump said that ISIS was not our fight."

Trump responded, "Never said that."

Who's right? Jeb Bush.

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Jeb Bush largely right that Donald Trump said 'ISIS was not our fight' 2 months ago https://t.co/sFGZoOwgSn pic.twitter.com/nL5aUDIwnz-- PolitiFact (@PolitiFact) December 16, 2015

Fact check 3. Ted Cruz said the head of the FBI "told Congress they cannot vet those (Syrian) refugees."

Cruz is conflating scenarios. James Comey never said the FBI couldn't vet the 10,000 Syrian refugees allowed admittance into the U.S. Comey said he couldn't personally certify each refugee.

[BerniesFriend]

Fact Checking the Fifth Republican Debate NBC News ^ | 12/16/2015 | LEIGH ANN CALDWELL

NBC News fact check GOP debate? Let me spare you the trouble..GOP is evil..Hillary is God..GOP won't acknowledge Hillary is God..Obama walks on water..GOP hates Obama because of racism..done!

[Dilbert San Diego]

Do media ever fact check Hillary or Democrats or just fact check the GOP???

[DaveyB]

NBC Propaganda posing as a fact check.

[pfflier]

What a hoot...NBC “fact checking”. What was their basis, the brian williams school of journalistic integrity?

[SharpRightTurn]

What we need is an in-depth fact check of NBC. By the way, is this the network that had Brian “I saw bodies floating down the street” Williams as news anchor?

[Da Coyote]

NBC?

Fact checking?

Bwahahahahahahahah!

Tuned out right there.

[fatnotlazy]

Is anyone fact checking the fact checkers?

[Robert DeLong]

Just NBC pushing the loser Rubio.

BTW, I don't trust NBC's fact checking anyway.

[Georgia Girl 2]

NBC and fact check don’t belong in the same sentence.

[TexasCajun]

Hey Leight Ann, how about fact-checking Hillary lies!

Questions Legitimate Journalists Should Be Asking Hillary Clinton

[ZULU]

O.K. Who will fact check NBC?

[tinyowl]

"Republican presidential candidates spewed statistics and positions"

it's not news, but just imagine any of these major media outlets daring to say 'spewed' in reference to the dems after a debate, more specifically Hillary. Remarkable, and I'm sure they are not even aware of it, so deeply collectively hypnotized by themselves are they.

[Bigg Red]

Exactly.

And this is considered a fact check?:

Rand Paul said that Marco Rubio is for an ‘open border’ — that’s ridiculous. Pants on Fire!

[falcon99]

Once you see it is NBC doing the “fact checking” it isn’t worth anyone’s time.