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Free Airline Tickets: Scams, Rackets and Rip-offs
names are roped into air travel scams. The rumor-busting site Snopes .com reported on an Oprah-related email scheme promising Wrong. Airlines I've talked to deny this and the folks at Snopes knocked down this decades-old rumor rather convincingly
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All The President's 'Threats'stream out, and so that one got a mostly false on the truth-o-meter," says Adair, editor of the fact - checking project PolitiFact . WATCH: http://yhoo.it/YBFZv6 THE HOLDER FILES ABC News Senior Justice Correspondent Pierre Thomas
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Pope Benedict XVI Never Aspired to Be Pope: Historian
the Vatican library. But the writer admitted that the Holy Father's personal secretary, Monsignor Georg Gänswein, did fact - check the book with Pope Benedict because Georg Ratzinger is almost completely blind and couldn't proofread it. Long before he
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What Could Go Wrong? Bloopers from Past State of the Union Addressesdetraction from the president, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito could be seen on camera mouthing the words "Not true." Politifact sided with Justice Alito on this one; they ruled Obama's appraisal of the decision barely true . Twittering Over Twitter
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PM Note: Sequester This!, A Federal Push on Less Pot Restriction, More Drone Restriction, and a 'Lincoln' Fact Check
The State of the Union Is… ‘Not Particularly Good’ says Carly Fiorina – http://abcn.ws/14XLVp7 (Day 3 of our series curated by Arlette Saenz) Sequester This! - Republicans are pinning the origins of sequestration on President Obama. Democrats are reciprocating. Both sides voted for the thing...
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Church of Scientology International Statement Concerning Lawrence Wright's Book
the brand of cigarettes L. Ron Hubbard smoked, he took us up on our offers made in 15 separate letters to assist him in fact checking his book. If Mr. Wright wanted to call his book "A Diatribe on Scientology Through the Minds of a Posse of Lunatics
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The Biggest Political Blunders of 2012speeches. Romney even made " We Built It " -- a riff on Obama's remark -- the theme of his convention's first night. Fact - checking organizations dubbed Romney's attacks that used the comment misleading. But the ascendance of the "you didn't build that
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Stop! Don't Copy and Paste that 'Copyright' Facebook Messagesince the law already protects you. The privacy declaration [in this message] is worthless and does not mean anything." Snopes .com , a site dedicated to clearing up fallacies on the Internet, reminds Facebook users of that same thing. "Facebook users
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Obama Campaign Head Jim Messina Changing Gears
gaining YouTube stardom for a series of matter-of-fact fact - checking videos calling out falsehoods in TV ads run by Mitt Romney's of those "falsehoods" were disputed, and, like every fact - check , Cutter's videos were just the entrance to the rabbit-hole-but
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Follow the Signs: A Sometimes Scientific Guide to Predicting the Presidential ElectionNinety-four percent of candidates who outspend their opponents go on to win the vote, according to a widely quoted figure Politifact rated "mostly true." However you parse the numbers, having more cash is a major boost. Both Mitt Romney and President Obama
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Sandy Twitter Troll Identifiedshould never have gone that far. If widespread events such as Hurricane Sandy demonstrate anything, it's that the need for fact - checking is greater than ever, especially in a 24/7 media cycle where the temptation to take potentially false information at face
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On the Stump With Rubio, Romney Appeals to Military Friendly Panhandlesaid that the military doesn't use as many bayonets and horses as it once did, not that it doesn't use them at all. A fact check by ABC News found that the Army has 419,155 bayonets in its inventory and the Marine Corps has another 195,334 bayonets
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PM Note: A Slight* Romney Edge in New ABC Poll, Ryan to Address Empathy, Off to the Races
abcn.ws/P0iX2k Obama A d O verstates J ob C reation by A bout 5 M illion J obs in new ad - http://yhoo.it/TwP4Jj Factcheck . org - According to the most recent employment figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the economy has seen a net gain of
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Presidential Debate Decoder: Obama Out-Zingered Romneytour" at the beginning of his presidency, calling it the campaign's "biggest whopper." (Click HERE for ABC News' fact check of the debate.) And chiding Romney for arguing that the Navy is weaker than it was in 1916, Obama said that the military
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President Says Obamacare Can Take Care of 'Romnesia'attack, in which he likens Romney's political maneuvering to a disease affecting his memory. (Click HERE for ABC News' fact check of the debate) "If you can't seem to remember the policies on your web site or promises you've been making over the last
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Two-Week Warning: All About The Battlegrounds With 14 Days To Go (The Note)to protect our national security in a dangerous world." FACT - CHECKING THE FINAL DEBATE. Massachusetts did reach top marks in education last night's factual hits and misses, check out our live fact - check blog: http://abcn.ws/RicLRr BOSTON HERALD ENDORSES
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The Note's Must-Reads for Tuesday October 23, 2012
LINK ABC NEWS VIDEO: " The Foreign-Policy Debate That Sort of Wasn't " LINK " Final Presidential Debate 2012 Analysis: Fact Checking the Debate " LINK BOOKMARKS The Note: LINK The Must-Reads Online: LINK Top Line Webcast (12noon EST M-F): LINK ABC
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Obama Wins Twitter War With 'Horses and Bayonets'
also have fewer horses and bayonets." But was Obama correct? Does the military have fewer ships, horses, and bayonets? Fact Check here! "We have these things called aircraft carriers, where planes land on them," Obama cheekily informed Romney
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Who Won? Political Analysts on the Final Debate
Obama's advantage of already being in the role of commander-in-chief dominated the session. (Click HERE for live fact checking ) "First of all Mitt Romney couldn't talk about foreign policy because he hasn't been there and hasn't traveled enough
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Fact Checking the Final Presidential DebateABC News' team of reporters and producers fact check the final presidential debate, which was held at Lynn University ABC News' Matthew Larotonda has the facts: Independent fact check organizations have poured over the rhetoric of diplomatic
