Welfare Program Stat More Misleading than Wrong
Good for Politifact for calling foul on Rep. Patricia Morgan’s misuse of the old talking point that welfare programs account for more than 40 percent of the state budget. First of all, her numbers were flat our wrong. As Politifact points out, her definition of welfare programs is quite broad. It includes “such spending as [...]
Progress Report: Even More Riley Lies; KKK History in Smithfield; Mortgage Gordian Knot; Roger Williams
First Mike Riley was telling lies about Congressman Jim Langevin in TV commercials. Now, we’re pretty certain he’s telling lies about RI Future to other reporters. Or, it’s just another example of why Mike “McCarthyism” Riley is totally unfit to represent Rhode Island in Congress (we’ll offer more evidence of as much a little later [...]
Politifact Reverses Ruling, But Doherty Still Deceived
Earlier this week I posted about Brendan Doherty playing fast and loose with facts and pegged it to two Politifact pieces that gave him “mostly false” grades. Then Politifact did a little additional research and reversed its ruling. We’re not reversing our assertion though. While we agree that Dan McGowan did a better job of [...]
Doherty’s Campaign Is Being Untrustworthy
So far Brendan Doherty is running his campaign against David Cicilline not all that differently from how Anthony Gemma campaigned against the incumbent congressman: make a lot of accusations and see which ones stick. So far, not all of them have. While the conservative Republican got a lot of media attention the day after the [...]
Politifact: Negative Ads Increasing Exponentially
“In this election cycle, things are already so negative, it’s hard to imagine that there’s much room for them to get more negative between now and November,” election expert Stephen Farnsworth told Gene Emery of the Projo’s Politifact team as he investigated the veracity of Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse’s assertion that negative advertisements have increased since [...]
New Comments