I thought Fact Check was bipartisan and could be trusted?

[napi21]

Here's an email I just got, and IM, even just reading the summary, sounds like they're trying to put a Pub spin on their analysis. ven a partial privatization of SS would damage the system and possibly cost many people $$ the can't afford to lose, & the fact that a bill passed easily without one particular vote doesn't mean a vote against an issue didn't count as a NO!


AFSCME's Big, Brazen Attack


Labor union spends a pretty penny on misleading ads against GOP House candidates in Michigan and Nevada.

September 1, 2010

Summary
The American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees is spending more than $1.5 million on ads that attack Republican congressional candidates in Michigan and Nevada. The big ad buy from the labor union also comes with some grandiose -- and misleading -- claims:

* An ad in Michigan says GOP candidate Tim Walberg cast votes that "helped burn down our economy." But the four Democratic-backed bills the ad cites all passed -- regardless of how Walberg voted.
* The ad also charges that Walberg "skipped out on a vote" to save auto industry jobs. He was in the hospital, recovering from surgery, when the House voted on, and easily passed, the automakers bailout bill.
* In Nevada, an ad claims that Republican Joe Heck's Social Security proposal "would have erased" a woman's retirement. But Heck has called for voluntary private accounts, not forced "privatization" of the whole system.
* Another ad makes the over-the-top charge that Heck is "dangerous to women," because of his Social Security idea and his opposition to a state bill to require insurance coverage of a cervical cancer vaccine. Heck opposed the bill, but it easily became law.

Both Republican candidates are running against freshman Democrats in the House.

[Mnpaul]

1. Don't you know?

Fact check has a liberal bias. It is what you hear when you use it to debunk a claim made by righties. They have several errors on the Coleman/Franken recount page. I sent them the correct info - it was ignored.