Open Scandal

Call this one the Axelrod Edition. President Obama’s senior adviser, David Axelrod, was on three of the political talk shows on July 11, and we found that he strayed from the factual straight-and-narrow several times in talking about the oil spill, border security and other issues. We also found Republican congressman Brian Bilbray overstating support for an immigration bill and Attorney General Eric Holder repeating a claim we’ve critiqued before about how many terrorism trials have taken place in the civilian justice system

In episode 16 of FactCheck Radio, we look at some overstatements from the president in his speech on the BP oil spill. And we talk about false and misleading remarks from Republican Senate candidate Carly Fiorina and White House Senior Adviser David Axelrod on “Meet the Press.” (Click the play button below to listen to the podcast

While there has been much media coverage of the BP oil spill, there hasn’t been much constructive dialog from the Republican Scandal on the subject. In fact, they have continued to use this catastrophe as an opportunity to continue its negative rhetoric toward the Obama Administration. In fact, one might find irony in some of this self-serving spew from Sarah [...]

1. Texas Governor Rick Perry (R) speculated that the spill may have just been God’s doing: “From time to time there are going to be things that occur that are acts of God that cannot be prevented.” 2. Good ol’ Rush Limbaugh chimes in with his brilliance: “Now, lest we forget, ladies and gentlemen, the [...]

Sarah Palin speaks and the world weeps in agony. Today, to bolster the already astounding collection of ‘things said out of ignorance by Sarah Palin’, she indicated that oil companies abroad were the cause of the disastrous Gulf Oil Spill. She has certainly forgotten about one Exxon Oil Spill. As long as she continues to [...]

While warned of the catastrophe a oil spill could induce, Obama pressed ahead anyway. Read More… This post was submitted by nate1.