After 100 days in office, we find President Obama is sticking to the facts – mostly. Nevertheless, we find that the president has occasionally made claims that put him and his policies in a better light than the facts warrant. Full Story »
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Informative report on claims made by President Obama in his first hundred days in office. FactCheck researched a number of speeches by Obama in the past couple months, and analyzes controversial statements on a wide range of issues, from the economy to oil imports and the education. False claims made by Obama's critics are also fact-checked and debunked. Well-sourced, factual and insightful report.
The fact checking is a good exercise to hold politicians responsible when done fairly. The selection of topics and the special enthusiasm for hot topics for right wingers (guns to Mexico) smells a bit of partisanship in selecting topics. High powered fact checking might have traced the unattributed false rumors to their sources and identified sources, rather than just repeating the lies, which give them a continued life.
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