Correction: Debate Fact Check story

In an Oct. 15 story fact-checking the presidential candidates' debate, The Associated Press incorrectly reported that presidential candidate Barack Obama overstated the proportion of American households that would see tax cuts under his economic plan.

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Fact checking the first presidential debate

Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain stretched the facts in accusing each other of kowtowing to the oil industry and sprinkled other dubious assertions across the landscape of public policy in their first presidential debate.

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FactCheck: Claims omit details on McCain record

The shotgun-style charges Democratic National Convention speakers fired at Republican Sen. John McCain Tuesday night weren't necessarily half-truths. But in some instances, they weren't the whole story either.

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CNN/U.S. president Jon Klein asked his show producers to avoid booking talk radio hosts.

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The answer to almost any question is available within seconds, courtesy of the invention that has altered how we discover knowledge - the search engine. Materializing answers from the air turns out to be the easy part - the part a machine can do.

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President Obama tried to sell his health care overhaul in prime time, mangling some facts in the process. He also strained to make the job sound easier to pay for than experts predict.

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President Barack Obama did not give a lot of facts and figures in his speech last night, but he did set some bench marks and make some promises that caught people's attention.

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I've listened to Sarah Palin several times in the past few days. (It's my job--what I get the big bucks to do.) And as she whips up the crowds that come to her rallies, her biggest argument against Barack Obama is that he WILL RAISE YOUR TAXES.

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Remember that email that bounced about the internet from Anne Kilkenny, the Wasilla, AK, resident who got tired of answering questions and wrote an open letter about Sarah Palin?

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He accuses McCain of proposing to cut benefits. Not true.

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The Statement: Republican vice-presidential candidate Gov. Sarah Palin, in an interview taped Oct. 8 and aired Sunday, Oct. 12, on Fox News' "Hannity's America," referred to Democratic presidential candidate Sen.

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We find McCain's accusation that Obama "lied" to be groundless. It is true that recently released records show half a dozen or so more meetings between the two men than were previously known, but Obama never denied working with Ayers.

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McCain did push to delay regulations that would have cracked down on savings-and-loans practices and intervened on Keating's behalf, although he was cleared of wrongdoing in the "Keating Five" case.

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This article is the a result of an interview John McCain granted to a magazine early after he was released: "They kept saying, "You will not receive any medical treatment until you talk."

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A McCain-Palin ad says that Obama was "born of the corrupt Chicago political machine" and implies that the candidate himself is corrupt by association with four local political figures. But the ad's implication and many of its supporting details are false.

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But I believe that the John McCain who ran for president in 2000 already would have taken down the ad, apologized to Mr. Obama, and fired whoever was responsible.

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Despite its place near the top of The New York Times' nonfiction bestseller list, where it has been riding high for the past six weeks, Jerome Corsi's "The Obama Nation" is not a reliable source of facts about Obama.

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Palin claims Alaska "produces nearly 20 percent of the U.S. domestic supply of energy." That's not true. Alaska did produce 14 percent of all the oil from U.S. wells last year, but that's a far cry from all the "energy" produced in the U.S.

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McCain's dirty campaigning (FACTCheck.org proves)

McCain's dirty campaigning (FACTCheck.org proves) FactCheck.org makes it evident that McCain keeps on breaking his promise not to resort to dirty companying against his opponent (Obama), so far 19 times plus 4 of McCain's surrogates' false statements agains …

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Measuring Truth In Politics: A Wholesale Review Both Candidates For President

Perhaps the most frustrating aspect of modern politics is the extent to which dishonesty is rampantly encouraged by all involved.

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McCain released a Web ad that distorts Obama's positions on clean-energy innovation and nuclear power.

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McCain is sending out a postcard mailing in South Carolina that is misleading on more than one point.

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In the midst Alberto Gonzalez's testimony and obfuscation, Jack Shafer writes about the use of the L-word, "Liar," and recent initiatives by the St.

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The year 2007 wasn't a good one for political honesty. Though not even technically an election year, it provided a bumper crop of falsehoods and distortions nonetheless. Presidential candidates kept us busy:

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FactCheck digs up Huckabee's budget record for real, and here is a summary of Huckabee's claims and what FactCheck found in the record.

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