Fact Check Friday

President Barack Obama speaks in the Rose Garden at the White House - May 16, 2013 (credit: Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

Fact Check Friday: Scandals Hit The White House

It’s that time again, time to use a lie detector on the people running the country.

2013/05/17

Am empty station at an airport control tower (credit: JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images)

Fact Check Friday: The Politics Of The FAA Furloughs

We couldn’t let today’s news about the FAA furloughs soon coming to an end go by without some fact checking on some things we’ve heard.

2013/04/26

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg (file / credit: Kristen Artz / Mayor's Office)

Fact Check Friday: Bloomberg’s Whopper

“For the first time in the history of the world, more people will die from over-eating than under-eating this year,” Bloomberg said. Was the mayor telling truth or serving up a whopper?

2013/04/05

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and Vice President Joe Biden (file / credits: Alex Wong/Getty Images, Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Fact Check Friday: The Truth About Buying Guns

With the the renewed debate over gun control in the wake of the Newtown massacre, we’re continuing to look at the rhetoric.

2013/03/22

Teacher, Meat, and the LaGuardia Airport control tower (credits: clipart.com, clipart.com, Bruce Bennett/Getty Images)

Fact Check Friday: Getting The Truth As The Sequester Takes Effect

Airport control towers closing, teachers laid off, and meat going bad or uninspected. These are the claims, some exaggerated, from both sides about these automatic spending cuts starting Friday with the sequester.

2013/03/01

President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner (credits: SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images, Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Fact Check Friday: #Obamaquester

That’s the hashtag being used by some Republicans, including the House Speaker John Boehner, to blame President Barack Obama for the automatic federal cuts that are a week away.

2013/02/22

President Barack Obama delivers the State of the Union address - Feb.12, 2013 (credit: Charles Dharapak-Pool/Getty Images)

Fact Check Wednesday: The State Of The Union

“We did a lot of fact checking, but actually we wound up writing about very little,” factcheck.org’s Eugene Kieley told WCBS 880′s Wayne Cabot.

2013/02/13

Chris Murphy is sworn-in as a U.S. Senator, NRA Hat (credits: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images, Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

Fact Check Friday: Assault Weapons Sales Funding NRA Salaries?

Today’s claim to check is from newly sworn-in junior Connecticut U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy.

2013/01/18

Guns turned in as part of a gun buyback program in Bridgeport, Conn. - Dec. 22, 2012 (credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Fact Check Friday: The Great Gun Debate

Today, our Wayne Cabot spoke with factcheck.org’s Rob Farley, who has been weighing rhetoric versus reality when it comes to guns in the wake of the Newtown massacre.

2013/01/11

House Speaker John Boehner outside is office at the U.S. Capitol - Dec. 7, 2012 (credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Fact Check Friday: Dueling Fiscal Cliff Deceptions

Factcheck.org’s Rob Farley told WCBS 880′s Wayne Cabot that “both sides” are doing the deceiving.

2012/12/07

Social Security Administration (file / credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Fact Check Friday: Entitlements

WCBS 880′s Wayne Cabot asked factcheck.org researcher Eugene Kiley if it’s really possible, as Democrats prefer, to balance the books without cutting the big three entitlements – Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security.

2012/11/30

Lockheed Martin F-22 Take Off (credit: Perry Bindelglass / Special to CBSNewYork)

Fact Check Friday: Fox, The President, And Lockheed Layoffs

Fox News Channel has reported that, “Lockheed-Martin saying that they will not issue layoff warnings before the November election.”

2012/11/16

Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama face off in their final debate at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Fla. - Oct 22, 2012 (credit: Rick Wilking-Pool/Getty Images)

Fact Check Tuesday: Romney Vs. Obama – Round Three

Both men got things wrong. So Brooks Jackson of factcheck.org checked in to go over the claims and set the record straight.

2012/10/23

Candy Crowley moderates the debate between Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama at Hofstra University in Hempstead, Long Island - Oct. 16, 2012 (credit: SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)

Fact Check Wednesday: Romney Vs. Obama – Round Two

The post-debate headline from factcheck.org was “Obama And Romney Continue False, Misleading Attacks In Second Debate.”

2012/10/17

Vice President Joe Biden and Rep. Paul Ryan with Vice Presidential Debate moderator Martha Raddatz at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky - Oct. 11, 2012 (credit: SAUL LOEB/AFP/GettyImages)

Fact Check Friday: Rep. Paul Ryan Vs. Vice President Joe Biden

There’s a lot of ground to cover from Thursday night’s debate at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky between Mitt Romney’s running mate – Rep. Paul Ryan – and Vice President Joe Biden.

2012/10/12

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