This is no clown car... Republican debate

Ricter said:
I don't believe voodoo economics was touched on, was it?
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Only to the extent that when taxes are lowered, America will be all flowery meadows and rainbow skies, and rivers made of chocolate, where the children will dance and laugh and play with gumdrop smiles.*

* Borrowed from a line in the movie Team America.
 
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Ricter said:
We can argue that elsewhere for sure, but that's how it stands for this debate. I wasn't able to watch it, but I don't believe voodoo economics was touched on, was it?
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Yes, the liberal voodoo economics that you can freely hand out increased public benefits forever while not balancing the budget was touched on.
 
Ricter said:
Fact check: The second Republican debate
Eugene Kiely, Brooks Jackson, Lori Robertson, Robert Farley and Dave Levitan, FactCheck.org 10:28 a.m. EDT September 17, 2015

"The Republican presidential candidates met for their second debate on Sept. 16, this one hosted by CNN at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum in California. We found they strayed from the facts on numerous issues, including:

• Donald Trump told a story linking vaccination to autism, but there's no evidence that recommended vaccines cause autism. And Sen. Rand Paul suggested that it would be safer to spread out recommended vaccines, but there's no evidence of that, either.

• Former Florida governor Jeb Bush said Trump donated to his gubernatorial campaign to get him to change his mind on casino gambling in Florida. But Trump denied he ever wanted to bring casino gambling to the state. A former lobbyist says he did.

• Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee said that Hillary Clinton was "under investigation by the FBI" because she "destroyed government records." Not true. She had the authority to delete personal emails.

• Trump said that "illegal immigration" cost "more than $200 billion a year." We couldn't find any support for that. Actually, it could cost taxpayers $137 billion or more to deport the 11 million immigrants in the country illegally, as Trump proposes.

• Trump again wrongly said that Mexico doesn't have a birthright citizenship policy like the United States. It does.

• Carly Fiorina said that the Planned Parenthood videos released by an anti-abortion group showed "a fully formed fetus on the table, its heart beating, its legs kicking while someone says we have to keep it alive to harvest its brain." But that scene isn't in any of the videos.

• Fiorina repeated familiar boasts about her time at Hewlett-Packard, saying the size of the company "doubled," without mentioning that was due to a merger with Compaq, and she cherry-picked other statistics.

• Florida Sen. Marco Rubio said that U.S. policies to combat climate change would "do absolutely nothing." The U.S. acting alone would have a small effect on rising temperatures and sea levels, and experts say U.S. leadership on the issue would prompt other nations to act.

• In the "happy hour" debate, South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham glossed over the accompanying tax increases when he said only that Ronald Reagan and then-House Speaker Tip O'Neill "found a way to save Social Security from bankruptcy by adjusting the age of retirement from 65 to 67."

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...fact-check-second-republican-debate/32517889/
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Libtard propaganda/hit piece is not fact checking. Majority of above is extremely subjective not objective.
 
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Ricter said:
We can argue that elsewhere for sure, but that's how it stands for this debate. I wasn't able to watch it, but I don't believe voodoo economics was touched on, was it?
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Clearly factcheck considers hearsay facts and disregards common sense.
 
Ricter said:
Ok, pick one fact-checked statement from the list.
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Okay; I will take on several of them.

"• Former Florida governor Jeb Bush said Trump donated to his gubernatorial campaign to get him to change his mind on casino gambling in Florida. But Trump denied he ever wanted to bring casino gambling to the state. A former lobbyist says he did.

So an unnamed "former lobbyist" said so therefore that is a fact? When did hearsay become fact?

"• Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee said that Hillary Clinton was "under investigation by the FBI" because she "destroyed government records." Not true. She had the authority to delete personal emails."

Factcheck/USA Today has no way to verify that Clinton did not delete emails that would have been considered government records. Only way to state this as fact is if they have analyzed every single deleted email otherwise they are simply making shit up.

Do you want me to address more of them?
 
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AAAintheBeltway said:
I was struck by that as well. It was almost like they piped in the sound and used it selectively.
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They do it all the time. In 2011 and 07 when Ron Paul was in the debates, he pulled vocal crowds and applause. The media caught on and either hand selected crowds or silenced their reaction using the sound board. Trump himself was much more subdued tho. Not his usual self. He let the politicians talk their usual crap and only came out swinging against rand Paul and Scott Walker.
 
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" Florida Sen. Marco Rubio said that U.S. policies to combat climate change would "do absolutely nothing." The U.S. acting alone would have a small effect on rising temperatures and sea levels, and experts say U.S. leadership on the issue would prompt other nations to act."

Experts saying that US doing something would prompt other nations to act is complete speculation. When did speculation become fact?
 
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