AP FACT CHECK: Clinton, Sanders on health care, donors and more

Fox News.com via AP ^ | February 12, 2016

[Kaslin]

health care, donors and more Published February 12, 2016 Associated Press Facebook72 Twitter0 Email Print Democratic U.S. presidential candidate former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks as Senator Bernie Sanders listens at the PBS NewsHour Democratic presidential candidates debate in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, February 11, 2016. REUTERS/Jim Young - RTX26KQQ

Democratic U.S. presidential candidate former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks as Senator Bernie Sanders listens at the PBS NewsHour Democratic presidential candidates debate in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, February 11, 2016. REUTERS/Jim Young - RTX26KQQ

In their latest debate, Hillary Clinton glossed over the big-money donors juicing her White House ambitions while Bernie Sanders offered disputed numbers behind his plan for a government-financed health system.

A look at some of the claims in the Democratic presidential debate and how they compare with the facts:

CLINTON: "We have more than 750,000 donors and the vast majority are giving small contributions. ... We both have a lot of small donors."

THE FACTS: Her presidential run is being supported by wealthy donors in ways that Sanders' is not.

Last year's fundraising reports show that Sanders raised fully 72 percent of his campaign money from people who gave $200 or less, while for Clinton those donors accounted for just 16 percent of her funds.

[MNJohnnie]

Wow habitual liars “fact checking” other habitual liars.

[hal ogen]

Chronic, shameless, life-long liars lie. That is what they do. That is what they will always do.

[fwdude]

Here’s the fact: they’re both trying to out-Communist each other.

[Kaslin]

You got it.

[oldplayer]

Two observations:

First, I have long noticed that Fox uses admittedly liberal AP Fact Check after the debates, both Dim and GOP. I wonder why they don’t do their own. It can’t be that resource intensive.

Second, the AP Fact Check is snarky and exudes an arrogant “matter of fact” air when analyzing GOPers. They are nuanced and give wide “wiggle room” when analyzing their buddies in the Dem debates. This article is typical in that it brings Trump and Cruz into the final item in a negative way and they weren’t even in the debate.

I guess my “observations” may have crossed the line to “opinion” somewhere in this response. But it is not an “unfounded” opinion.

Oldplayer