Sunday, September 14, 2008
Check the Facts
If you want more facts than are posted here,
or if you have friends or relatives that don't believe what you tell them,
then, in addition to TheTruthAboutPoliticalStuff.com go (and send them) to the totally non-partisan site, http://FactCheck.org
You will find that the facts are that McCain and Palin and the Republicans in general have lied and stretched the truth quite extensively. Yes, you will also find fact errors and exaggerations that have come from the Democratic side as well, but if you pay close attention, you will see that the difference if extreme.
Sunday, September 07, 2008
News you need to know
Sarah Palin: Earmark Queen Of The Earmark State
verified at snopes.com: A Note to All (About Sarah Palin) by Anne Kilkenny
FactCheck Article: FactChecking McCain
Palin: wrong woman, wrong message - by Gloria Steinem
Great video clip responding to Palin speech
Running From Reality
News article from May 7 2008: Alaska Rates for high school dropouts, college completion among worst
Sarah Palin: Iraq war 'a task that is from God'
Sarah Palin accepted at least $4,500 in campaign contributions in the same fundraising scheme at the center of a public corruption scandal that led to the indictment of Sen. Ted Stevens
John McCain foreign policy flip-flops
Tuesday, August 05, 2008
Thursday, July 03, 2008
McCain Flips At Legit Question
McCain Flips At Legit Question
http://news.yahoo.com/s/huffpost/20080703/cm_huffpost/110681_200807031142
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Saturday, June 14, 2008
Friday, November 02, 2007
Rudy's Bogus Cancer Statistic
Bogus Cancer Statistic
factcheck.org
Giuliani falsely claims that only 44 percent of prostate cancer patients survive under "socialized medicine" in England.
Summary
In a new radio ad, Rudy Giuliani falsely claims that under England’s “socialized medicine” system only 44 percent of men with prostate cancer survive.
We tracked down the source of that number, which turns out to be the result of bad math by a Giuliani campaign adviser, who admits to us that his figure isn’t "technically" a survival rate at all. Furthermore, the author of the study on which Giuliani’s man based his calculations tells us his work is being misused, and that the 44 percent figure is both wrong and “misleading.”
It’s true that official survival rates for prostate cancer are higher in the U.S. than in England, but the difference is not nearly as high as Giuliani claims. And even so, the higher survival rates in the U.S. may simply reflect more aggressive diagnosing of non-lethal cancers, according to the American Cancer Society.
Actually, men with prostate cancer are more likely to die sooner if they don’t have health insurance, according to a recent study published in one of the American Medical Association’s journals. Giuliani doesn’t mention that.
Note: This is a summary only. The full article with analysis, images and citations may be viewed on www.factcheck.org
Tuesday, October 09, 2007
Major White House Blunder Severely Damages Al-Queda Intelligence Gathering Efforts
Yahoo! News
White House denies leaking info that hurt Al-Qaeda spying
The White House on Tuesday denied being the source of a leak involving an Osama bin Laden video that a private intelligence firm said had sabotaged its secret ability to intercept Al-Qaeda messages.
Asked if the White House was the source of the leak, spokeswoman Dana Perino said: "No, we were not ... We were very concerned to learn about it."
The SITE Intelligence Group said it lost access that it had covertly acquired to Al-Qaeda's communications network when the administration of President George W. Bush let out that the company had obtained a bin Laden video early last month ahead of its official release, the Washington Post said.
"Techniques that took years to develop are now ineffective and worthless," SITE founder Rita Katz told the newspaper.
SITE monitors websites and public communications linked to radical Islamist groups and organizations deemed terrorist by US authorities and provides the information to clients, including news media companies.
It got hold of the bin Laden video before its release and provided it for free to the White House on the morning of September 7 but insisted that the video's existence remain secret until it spotted the official release, in order to protect its own work.
"Within 20 minutes, a range of intelligence agencies had begun downloading it from the company's website," the Post said.
By that afternoon the video and a transcript from it had been leaked to a cable television news network and broadcast worldwide, the Post reported.
According to Katz, this tipped off Al-Qaeda that its communications security had been breached by SITE.
White House officials said the matter would be referred to the Director of National Intelligence, and that the White House was not planning any internal investigation.
"When the White House receives information from an individual or a company, we refer that appropriately to the intelligence community. That's what happened here," Perino said.
"And I'll have to refer you to the Director on National Intelligence for any process problem they had in that regard."
Homeland security adviser Fran Townsend echoed Perino's "concern" and referred the matter to the nation's spy chief.
"This is going to be an issue for the DNI to look at so that we can understand what, if anything, happened, and how to deal with it to ensure that we fully protect those who cooperate with us," Townsend said.
"I haven't looked at the internal White House emails, so what I can tell you is the DNI and the Intelligence Committee will need to look at who had access to it.
She added: "We are only going to be successful in the war on terror with the help of the American people."
The video appeared to be timed to coincide with the sixth anniversary of the September 11 attacks on the United States, and was bin Laden's first video appearance since October 2004.
In it, the elusive Al-Qaeda chief mocked the United States as "weak" and vowed to escalate fighting in Iraq.
Another US-based organization that monitors Islamic militant websites, IntelCenter, said its "sources, methods and techniques ... to collect terrorist video material remain intact," according to CEO Ben Venzke, who added that the focus on rushing videos to the public could have dangerous consequences.
"Simply getting the video first but not having the professional knowledge and responsibilities to know what to do with it can not only result in the loss of valuable intelligence but it can actually harm ongoing activities within the official counterterrorism community," he said.
This "has happened time and time again when private citizens and organizations outside of the IC (intelligence community) play in fields where they lack the depth and experience."
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